Same shit with Amazon. That site used to be good for doing product research, but now? Most of the reviews are bought and paid for by the sellers, Amazon curates the searches, and actively promotes Chinesium garbage and knock offs. There's simply too much money involved, so over time these companies become corrupt.
Gaming is bigger than Hollywood. Steam is absolutely aware of review manipulation. At minimum, they simply don't care so long as they make money. However, it's probably worse. If people make a big enough deal about it, and force Steam to respond, we'll learn a lot more about their true motivations.
True story. In ~1998, in highschool, I was taking AP US History. We had a book report assignment where we had to go to a local university library to look up journals that had reviewed the book(s) we were assigned. Yes, this was a public highschool that had standards.
We also had to find other, non-academic reviews. I used Amazon, and I wrote something like "You have to be careful with Amazon reviews, because some of them are clearly bad faith reviews, either friends of the author or publisher or paid for reviews."
The teacher put a comment on my paper "Yes! You should always be careful to think about the source of what you are reading and WHY they are writing what they wrote."
This is what education should be like.
Amazon reviews being junk is nothing new, though I do agree the scope has gotten worse.
Yeah. I think that Pokemon GO might also have taken a hit when it was discovered that another one of those consultancy firms was behind the recent change to models.
I miss the days of going to the computer/video game store and checking out the boxes on the shelf.
Even though there were only like 20 new ones per year, you at least knew that what you bought was a complete product and wouldn't somehow be retroactively modified. And they were generally pretty good, even if a bit rough by today's standards.
Same shit with Amazon. That site used to be good for doing product research, but now? Most of the reviews are bought and paid for by the sellers, Amazon curates the searches, and actively promotes Chinesium garbage and knock offs. There's simply too much money involved, so over time these companies become corrupt.
Gaming is bigger than Hollywood. Steam is absolutely aware of review manipulation. At minimum, they simply don't care so long as they make money. However, it's probably worse. If people make a big enough deal about it, and force Steam to respond, we'll learn a lot more about their true motivations.
True story. In ~1998, in highschool, I was taking AP US History. We had a book report assignment where we had to go to a local university library to look up journals that had reviewed the book(s) we were assigned. Yes, this was a public highschool that had standards.
We also had to find other, non-academic reviews. I used Amazon, and I wrote something like "You have to be careful with Amazon reviews, because some of them are clearly bad faith reviews, either friends of the author or publisher or paid for reviews."
The teacher put a comment on my paper "Yes! You should always be careful to think about the source of what you are reading and WHY they are writing what they wrote."
This is what education should be like.
Amazon reviews being junk is nothing new, though I do agree the scope has gotten worse.
If that's true, we need more awareness of this situation. Find more evidence for the case, archive everything, and present it.
Yeah. I think that Pokemon GO might also have taken a hit when it was discovered that another one of those consultancy firms was behind the recent change to models.
So they've reached Orlando housing levels of scamming?
Is there any way to report this behavior to Steam?
Do you know for sure they’re aware of it?
I miss the days of going to the computer/video game store and checking out the boxes on the shelf.
Even though there were only like 20 new ones per year, you at least knew that what you bought was a complete product and wouldn't somehow be retroactively modified. And they were generally pretty good, even if a bit rough by today's standards.
Plus you'd get a cloth map and manual.