Dev4play, another developer abusing steam reviews?

With early access games, you do get people who give positive reviews to bad games simply based on if they think the game has any "potential", even if the game is utter garbage in its current state, and that tend to inflate their review score quite a bit.

And you're currently insulting 80. And that's our thing :D

Man he sounds quite annoying

Indeed - waiting for more reviews, and always checking the negative reviews, as it filters out fanboys and manipulated reviews, and the commonly reoccurring problems indicate a real problem :)

This is actually one reason where I try to play newly released indie games that I get ASAP. I want to get my foot in the door and put up an honest review for people who are uncertain of whether it is worth buying or not. I've had both positive and negative reviews for that reason. It is a shame that so many reviews are phoned in for the sake of inflating scores, because it really can make a difference on who buys these games and who doesn't.

It's not anything new, and that's the really sad part. But the day we stop calling out companies on their bad practices because it's normal is the day we give them a free pass to keep doing it.

That is a horrible attitude to have.

"Well people have been doing it for awhile, so there's no reason to question it."

The problem isn't finding this type of behaviour, it's what they are willing to do about it.

If they just remove the reviews and do nothing else, that sends the message to devs like this that it's something worth trying. However if they punish the developer, they open the door for someone else to review-bomb a game and have the devs pay for it.

Unless they actually created fake accounts (using the same IP or computers) leaving hard evidence that it's them doing it... then it's not so easy to fix the problem.

Ah, good to see another source, and a better confirmation of what's going on.

The melee attack / weaponswing animation is eerily similar to Magicka's

Someone suing them over lost revenue or false advertising, preferably in the US, and alerting the gaming media about it, which in return carries the story as loud as it can.
In which, Valve responds by either removing the review system or appointing certified curators which turn the entire system into their own little domain, ruining the little good what was left of it; or letting developers delete any review they want, making Steam the happiest place on the internet, where all games are at around 98% ratings.

Better late than never, I guess.

RIP Steam shovelware dev #740

Just look at how well all these non-joke "Simulator" games sell, like Bus simulator and . There seems to be quite a market for these kinds of games.

Probably people farming cards, if they don't get them from mass shovelware giveaways.

Wow, thanks for the heads up. Also, I'm surprised my thread got mentioned, there has to have been others who noticed it as well.

thanks for the update ...
let's see how many dead are raising from the graves.

Indeed. The developer has stated that they're providing keys for the new versions if you contact them, and already have the old version, and I guess a bunch of people will do that to farm CV...