It's an expression that originated in the works of Shakespeare. If someone is a piece of work, it means that he or she is a very unpleasant person or a bad person lacking morals, etc. Examples: He's a nasty piece of work, Carl. I'd avoid him if I were you.
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There's more: you can also write tools to track the public reception of your game in the internet, using bots that gather information of Facebook posts or Tweets that include your game's name, show you which review sites have reviewed your game and so on.