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Question for OP, or anyone that considered it: Do you think Steam reviews are coordinated?

• bluefirebrand 2y ago
  I think for basically any possible online discussion, from Facebook to Hacker News to Steam Reviews, you should always keep in mind that some portion of it is probably astroturfed, to some scale Anything from a small indie game to a huge AAA title, you can bet that the creators got their friends and family to post some nice reviews early, just to give it that positive bump
  • bloomingkales 2y ago
    I was specifically alarmed by what looked like review bombing of a indie game. I just can't imagine it. I need to write a small llm plugin that collapses coordinated/astroturfed reviews.
    • bluefirebrand 2y ago
      The smaller the scale the easier to astroturf, honestly If there are only 20 reviews it's pretty easy for one person to review bomb on their own if they want to It gets much harder when there are 2 million reviews
  • hackburg 2y ago
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• shagie 2y ago
  > Do you think Steam reviews are coordinated? Yes. It's not even a question. Steam flags outliers too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/ It got review bombed starting on Feb 14th because a different game that the company makes (HOI4) released DLC that upset the sensibilities of part of that player base. ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1iqzih8/why_is_stellaris_getting_review_bombed/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1iqzih8/why_is_s... ) --- There are Steam review bots for discord ( https://www.codecks.io/steam-bot/ https://www.codecks.io/steam-bot/ ) and that also encourages people who are members of a game's discord to leave a (positive) review. --- It's a certainty that reviews are coordinated through a number of different means.