Good to hear that you didn't participate in this. But there really is not much Valve can do about this. They can shut down groups if it's clear they are manipulating reviews, but nothing is stopping the same people to make a new group and continue doing it. It's unfortunatly something that happens with these kind of systems.
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Maybe they don't ban the duck because they can barely understand what he says :P
It worked for konrads
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u talking about this topic https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/y0I7M/dev4play-another-developer-abusing-steam-reviews
u have 1,2 hours and negative review and i think its enough if game is bad ^^
Most popular positive reviews in my region have 0,1-1,8 hours gameplay
LOL
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Yeah im alking about this topic, but no one that replyed him are involved with my case.
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this is why I don't trust reviews.
Note that it's not exclusive to gaming. I remember years ago writing movie reviews for a local magazine. We were never allowed to be too negative, because we wanted them to keep giving us free tickets so we could keep writing reviews. On a scale from 1-5, 3 meant it sucked, 4 was ok, and 5 was good. 1 and 2 didn't exist
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When I read game reviews on steam, I mostly skim over the positive reviews real quick and then spend most of my time reading the negative reviews. Then if I still might be interested, I pull up a gameplay video and make my own decision. If people are writing negative reviews that explain in depth why they didn't like the game, I find those reviews more helpful.
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I also prioritise, in this order: negative, lots of playtime + achievement unlocked, reviews with developer replies or a fair amount of user replies.
You should be able to filter out reviews.
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It is true that many of these "review" groups are nothing more than promotional schemes, what makes me sad is that they are giving a bad reputation to all the groups out there that write reviews and provide feedback to the devs. They're damaging the image of a system that can actually work quite well.
I'm part of a group that does reviews (is private) and we are given 2 or 3 weeks to write the review, the games are picked by voting, we can talk straight with the devs (one of them even played a match with me and explained me the game over voice chat) and we MUST write an in depth review formatted in a specific way pointing pros and cons, giving a numerical score and explaining why we think that way, not just describe the game. We're allowed to write a negative review if we think the game is not good in its current state, I've done that once and didn't receive any complaints by the dev or the group admin.
You just need to pick your review group right.
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Why do you need faceless users reviews when you have specialized sites like Gamespot or IGN? :^)
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Well, i saw some topics here in steamgifts talking about some kind of review manipulation. And what i have to say is:
I have wrote a review for a game, specifically War Truck Simulator, and i received a key for test the game and make the comments. The game isnt good. I dont liked anything about it. So i write my review (negative), but anytime i was rude with the developers, or the person that gave me the key. I got the key in a group, that i will not mention. Some minutes passd and i got messages by the guy who gave me the key (i will not expose him) , he was rude, and completely infant. He sayed that my review isnt valid because i played only 0.7 hours of the game, so he banned me from the group, and bloqued me on Steam. Some weeks past and he was writting on himself website, that the game have potential, and not directly refeering to me, calling myself a idiot. There are so many reviews being manipulated on Steam today, its very important people denounce this cases, and let Valve end this case. Thanks for reading.
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