Developer Changes Name to 'Very Positive' to Fool Steam Users
If anything has become clear in recent years about the review systems of some gaming websites, it’s that they can be pretty easy to game. Overall ratings on sites like Metacritic and Steam are based on aggregating all user review scores. So enough people, angry or otherwise, can easily join together to push the overall rating up or down. Review bombingcan easily fool users who haven’t kept up with current trends in the gaming industry, resulting in them bypassing games that are actually good due to inaccurately low review ratings or, vice versa, buying games whose score has been falsely inflated by overenthusiastic fans or duplicitous developers....