Postive review begging from the devs

[ShadowMalachi]

I usually would not have said anything. But on the official discord for the game, A recent update went out and on the bottom, it said the following and I quote

```We have to ask you for some positive vibes in reviews, as going "mixed" will be bad for the company and the game.```

They have to ask for positive reviews because going mixed will be bad?, Now I know its early Access but still, Asking for positive vibes.. Or rather reviews as that is what it is and then saying it will be bad for the game and company?. I am sorry but there is a line here and begging for positive reviews is not one of them. Sorry if i did the link wrong on the bottom. But i saw this and made me cringe a bit.

https://imgur.com/qDPh2xD

[Daedalus]

Every mindless YouTubber begs for "like and subscribe"... so a game company out there is asking/telling/begging people interested enough to follow their Discord channel to give the game a positive review. Shocking!

In other breaking news - the sun is hot; water is wet; and if you are woke, you are broke (and a mentally deranged clown) More at 11.

[PewPr]

Yeah, if only capitalism promoted honesty and good faith

[General Hawk]

It is an awesome game and hopefully they get positive reviews from many people who like it but don't normally review.

[ShadowMalachi]

Originally posted by Daedalus:

Every mindless YouTubber begs for "like and subscribe"... so a game company out there is asking/telling/begging people interested enough to follow their Discord channel to give the game a positive review. Shocking!

In other breaking news - the sun is hot; water is wet; and if you are woke, you are broke (and a mentally deranged clown) More at 11.

Except one are influencers and thus its there job to ask for a subscribes as its part of there livelihood, On the other hand when a game company is asking for positive reviews and saying that the game if mixed reviews is going to be bad for the company is something else. Because saying its going to be bad for the company if the game is not positive reviews.. Well that says a lot alone.

And honestly its been a while since i seen a game company do this. I played other EA games and they never asked for positive reviews for there games that just came out and I am pretty sure manor lords is not going to ask for them

If the game is good.. There is no need to worry about postive reviews they will happen naturally, Same thing with a youtuber.. if there content is good you naturally subscribe to them same with anything honestly.

[Raven]

Looking at Pos/Neg ratio - well, I'm guessing someone is using chineese bots. Pos/Neg chineese ratio 1,24 vs 2,12 overall. How it would look without counting chineese reviews (all, pos&neg)? 3,47. That's much better than 2,12, don't you think? Really weird that devs trying to fight with it, very weird :D And yes, so big difference might be a problem, especially in EA which is out for few days.
That "asking" is more like "Do you enjoy our game? Leave positive note please", at least imho.

[Hakkai]

I mean, it's prolly their livelihood and dream.
Tons of people like the game and don't bother posting a review.
i don't blame em, who cares.

[leftbehind]

The reviews are treated it as a finished game and not early access. That would be fair on train wrecks like Cities Skylines 2, but not fair on games that literally state openly that they are still in development. Unlike CS2 where the marketing pretended it was finished game and store page sold it at full price without "early access" tag, at least this dev was honest from the outset. I think they deserve some love for being honest, and games like CS2 need some flaming for being fraudulent.

[ShadowMalachi]

Originally posted by leftbehind:

The reviews are treated it as a finished game and not early access. That would be fair on train wrecks like Cities Skylines 2, but not fair on games that literally state openly that they are still in development. Unlike CS2 where the marketing pretended it was finished game and store page sold it at full price without "early access" tag, at least this dev was honest from the outset. I think they deserve some love for being honest, and games like CS2 need some flaming for being fraudulent.

I agree.. Well Paradox games as well deserve some of that flame as well. Specially with the latest DLCS being rushed for some of there games, I heard some things about city skylines 2 but never really looked into that game

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

If they're asking for positive reviews in exchange for something, it can even be illegal. I think it's fair to raise this to people who are considering buying the game. A game that has artificial reviews is bad for the consumer.

[Zam!]

I don't blame them. There is plenty of negative reviews that are bashing the game right now because some "less reasonable people" do not have an idea what an early access is and what it means for feature completeness of the game.

[SteelBlood]

I mean, it's not like they are asking you to lie right? I believe they are just saying that if you like the game, it would be helpful to them to leave a positive review. No harm in that.

And they only need it because people can't seem to be bothered to read the store page describing what Early Access is, so they leave negative reviews thinking this is the full game, when it isn't even close.

[NewYorkTimbs]

Early access is in a weird spot at the moment. Steam Should add the ability for devs to flag games as Alpha Early Access VS Beta Early Access because that is a very big distinction here.

This is basically a tech demo/proof of concept.

[Rainey84]

Reviews in English were at 76% last time I checked. It isn't great, but still much better than the 68% overall.

[Phoefire]

Originally posted by ShadowMalachi:

I usually would not have said anything. But on the official discord for the game, A recent update went out and on the bottom, it said the following and I quote

```We have to ask you for some positive vibes in reviews, as going "mixed" will be bad for the company and the game.```

They have to ask for positive reviews because going mixed will be bad?, Now I know its early Access but still, Asking for positive vibes.. Or rather reviews as that is what it is and then saying it will be bad for the game and company?. I am sorry but there is a line here and begging for positive reviews is not one of them. Sorry if i did the link wrong on the bottom. But i saw this and made me cringe a bit.

https://imgur.com/qDPh2xD

People who are unhappy will review a game poorly more often then someone who enjoys the game and gives it a positive review. I see nothing wrong with them asking for people to go leave a review if they like the game.

I went and changed my review to positive myself. They made a good point. I want the game to do well. The more they earn the more good they hear. The more motivated they will be to make the game great.

At the end of the day, the devs are on the players side and are humans too.

[Merk]

Originally posted by ShadowMalachi:

Originally posted by Daedalus:

Every mindless YouTubber begs for "like and subscribe"... so a game company out there is asking/telling/begging people interested enough to follow their Discord channel to give the game a positive review. Shocking!

In other breaking news - the sun is hot; water is wet; and if you are woke, you are broke (and a mentally deranged clown) More at 11.

Except one are influencers and thus its there job to ask for a subscribes as its part of there livelihood, On the other hand when a game company is asking for positive reviews and saying that the game if mixed reviews is going to be bad for the company is something else. Because saying its going to be bad for the company if the game is not positive reviews.. Well that says a lot alone.

And honestly its been a while since i seen a game company do this. I played other EA games and they never asked for positive reviews for there games that just came out and I am pretty sure manor lords is not going to ask for them

If the game is good.. There is no need to worry about postive reviews they will happen naturally, Same thing with a youtuber.. if there content is good you naturally subscribe to them same with anything honestly.

just so you know "company" is a umbrella term to describe a collection of people who all need to make money to live. its not corpo scum any time the word is used if you break it down a dev asking for money is the EXACT same a youtube asking for money. just like a youtuber needs your money and likes to survive so do the collection of devs who make a game and having a game fall to mixed is the same thing as a video being hidden by the youtube algorithm it has devastating repercussions its exactly why youtubers for the longest time were gaming the algorithm to trick it into pushing the video instead of flagging it.

its weird that its okay if its apart of someones "livelihood" but you dont even have a single shred of a normal human thought process to see that this clearly falls under "livelihood" devs dont work for free and bills have to be paid this isn't magic land where devs aren't human and only exist to produce entertainment for you.