Are these fake reviews?
According to https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4nk57a/some_games_involved_with_the_review_botting/d44wu9r
On google docs there is avaiable file, which contains games, which might participated in this scam:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18UKKWPLpEwnOMeRqZDL1oqQr5WhvMWVDTA5A2vyx3ac/edit#gid=0
^^Link has become private
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I updated my previous post - https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/C2q2ln2 Developers from Dagestan Technology contacted with me and answered on all my questions. First of all, they explained situation with 28 Waves Later - this game really was originally developed by Arthur Kariev, but shortly after project was greenlit Kariev abandoned 28 Waves Later development and started to work on his other projects, without involving Dagestan Technology. DT finishing development of 28 Waves Later on their own.
Dagestan Technology denied that they required greenlight votes and positive reviews to their games. They provided me proof that they original message to admin of Darkteam forum was only about creating promo giveaways with mentioning info about their company and upcoming titles (obviously, it's on russian) - http://i.imgur.com/MlrLOsE.png
Dagestan Technology confirmed that Obidak software is not involved in Under Zero development anymore, but they promised to continue development on their own just like with 28 Waves Later, as soon as their received funds to pay for work of freelance studio. No plans about removing game from the store.
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I regret that I didn't screenshot or archived this google document anywhere, I wish you would all see that it is not only couple of games, but one list of games! Some of them were already in shop and some were on greenlight!
It had couple of columns with name, status (greenlight,greenlit,in shop), links to the games and couple more details, which might be helpful to plan whole action.
Valve needs to keep an eye on it, because this rat with his bot army might transfer across other accounts to cover his tracks! Please keep in mind about this "scam project", because it might pop up elsewhere later on!
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Yes, it's probably a weird thread for me to necro, but I felt this was the closest match since I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the perpetrators abused Steamworks Developer badges for free experience for all the alts. I've actually just observed that the Steamworks Dev badge now gives 0XP. Could it be a consequence of this?
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Yes. Bot creator gave "free" 500xp by assigning Dev badge to his hundreds of bots to make them look more legit.
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Publisher Rai Games responded about Zombie Rush incident in annoucement:
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791454240121/announcements/detail/886462256235816821
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I recently looked for games for my wishlist and browsed top 100 rated games on SteamDB. I found a game called ZombieRush. I thought about adding it, but while I was checking reviews on the store page I found out that positive reviews looked suspicious. Why? Let me explain.
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/8aZ0Srr
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/3oqyTQU
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/Bzwr2gT
http://steamcommunity.com/app/467460/reviews/
And the game looks yhmm.......like mobile game and thanks to 1ricov we know it looks like Lemurzin! xD
http://store.steampowered.com/app/415490/
And Pterodactyl Edition DLC of Lemurzin costs "only" 93$
http://store.steampowered.com/app/463990/
It seems it comes from the same or a friend xD Any questions? XD
Reviews come from people who belong to that group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fcrpg
These are my thoughts and what do you think about it? Do you agree/disagree and why? Please discuss.
RECENT NEWS: Bots group has been administratively disabled. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fcrpg
Review number has been decreased from 500 to 310
Let me know if their accounts were banned and I will add some info here too :)
Most games from this developer cannot be bought now
http://store.steampowered.com/app/467460
http://store.steampowered.com/app/473490
http://store.steampowered.com/app/467560
http://store.steampowered.com/app/462060
Additional resources from SG user InquisitorAles:
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/C2q2ln2
Update:
https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/xHw7Rbe
Additional articles, which appeared after this discussion thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4nczdg/apparently_someone_is_exploiting_the_review/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4ncxof/apparently_someone_is_exploiting_the_review/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4nfxfj/steam_spy_on_twitter_looks_like_someone_figured/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4nk57a/some_games_involved_with_the_review_botting/
http://mmofallout.com/nm-zombierush-is-definitely-buying-reviews/
http://www.pcinvasion.com/steam-fake-review-problem
Bot creator has been banned from community:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198099557613
https://steamrep.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2Fprofiles%2F76561198099557613
According to..
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/4nk57a/some_games_involved_with_the_review_botting/d44wu9r
On google docs is avaiable file, which contains games, which might participated in this scam program:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18UKKWPLpEwnOMeRqZDL1oqQr5WhvMWVDTA5A2vyx3ac/edit#gid=0
^^ Link has become private.
Publisher Rai Games responded about Zombie Rush incident in annoucement:
http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791454240121/announcements/detail/886462256235816821
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