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Take Two warns investors that review bombings can hurt profits (www.gamefile.news)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They added a feature that changed what review score you see based on a preference to see what may or may not be review bombs, I can't remember exactly what it's called, but I haven't seen them react to so called review bombs since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://kotaku.com/superhot-game-gets-review-bombed-after-removing-depicti-1847352470

This was in direct response to changes in the game, any negative reviews because of changes made to the game are legitimate reviews, not a 'review bomb'.

triggering Valve’s anti-review-bombing tech to kick in and filter out the flood of bad-faith evaluations.

https://kotaku.com/valve-says-it-will-remove-off-topic-review-bombs-from-s-1833332643

“We’re going to identify off-topic review bombs, and remove them from the Review Score.”

Of course Steam is the arbiter of what they deem 'off-topic'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The "Store content policy" option made it so Valve doesn't have to manually do anything about "review bombs" or review bombs, which is a very Valve way of handling it.

Bringing up incidents from 3 or 5 years ago kinda solidifies that point, they put it up to the algorithm and don't manually get involved.

They even say in that article, as an update, that they aren't removing reviews. This function lets a user decide what they consider relevant, without removing reviews, and most importantly for Valve means they don't have to manually do anything.

They still could, but again you found articles from years ago, they wanted a solution that requires less work for them and stopped the headlines, and that seems to have worked.