review bombing
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Research Confirms What We Already Knew: Review Bombing Is Gross, Games Benefit From Real Online Feedback
10Online user reviews have come to play a crucial role in our decisions about which products to buy, what TV to watch, and what games to play. But after initial enthusiasm, many platforms have pushed back against them. Netflix’s star ratings and written user reviews are a distant memory, and even YouTube no longer shows…
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Epic’s Games Store Won’t Have User Reviews By Default
With review bombing becoming one of the most popular forms of protest – even in unusual circumstances – developers and marketplaces are looking for solutions to keep user-generated reviews helpful. With Metro Exodus making an about-face on Steam over the last week, users responded by tanking the publicly viewable rating for Metro: Last Light and…
