Transparency on Paid Reviews

[Kriztoff]

Can the Developer come out and be transparent on the paid reviews for the game?
Many of the reviews are not disclosed as the Steam Rules intend and this could affect the judgment of buyers into thinking they are purchashing a different game

[Flavio93Zena]

There aren't paid reviews, simple as.
There are some members who are more involved than others, though. For example you will see a review from me (in some time) and I am a boss skin in the game due to a LOT of help from my part with spreadsheets, bug reports, game tutorial and many other things.
I am not, however, paid to post it, at all.

There are a lot of very passionate members of the community about this game and they immediately started to put out reviews for it, because developers are absolutely awesome. They listen to the community, fix bugs, improve the core game and communicate with us, which is something that is extremely rare to see from many other companies.

Furthermore, you will see plenty of Payday content creator made content about the game because it's just that good. They of course have been given keys to the game but not paid to post anything.
marioinatophat being a great example, his videos are fantastic.

[Luffy]

As an admin and site dev of modworkshop I bought the game on EGS initially with the intent of modding it, but after playing with friends for real (on EGS), I had real fun much more than I had in PD3.

I wasn't paid back then I bought it from a 3rd party site and on Steam a good friend of mine gifted me a copy. So of course, I see no reason to not give it a positive review.

[AskornDorn]

I feel like people are just looking for reasons to bag on the game.. its solid.

[NLxAROSA]

Originally posted by Kriztoff:

Can the Developer come out and be transparent on the paid reviews for the game?
Many of the reviews are not disclosed as the Steam Rules intend and this could affect the judgment of buyers into thinking they are purchashing a different game

Those are serious accusations. Which specific reviews are you talking about?

From what I can tell anyone who got a free key is disclosing that and nobody was paid in exchange for a review.

[JRS]

it's 15$ who cares, looks fun and better than payday 3, DLC included, probably deserve all these positive reviews.. why waste your time hating this

[Rwaggy505Games]

Originally posted by Kriztoff:

Can the Developer come out and be transparent on the paid reviews for the game?
Many of the reviews are not disclosed as the Steam Rules intend and this could affect the judgment of buyers into thinking they are purchashing a different game

Hello there, thank you for posting. None of the reviews have been paid for. These are all people who have chosen to leave a review on their own.

[[Unintelligible]]

I think you got the wrong forum, PAYDAY 3 is over there

[Flavio93Zena]

Originally posted by Unintelligible:

I think you got the wrong forum, PAYDAY 3 is over there

DAMN, shots fired

[piola]

Originally posted by Unintelligible:

I think you got the wrong forum, PAYDAY 3 is over there

[[Unintelligible]]

Originally posted by -AG- piopla:

Originally posted by Unintelligible:

I think you got the wrong forum, PAYDAY 3 is over there

Bo Andersson sends his regards

[Cryptic]

This topic made me chuckle. Nice bait op

[Shev]

The way this game got ♥♥♥♥ on at release; and then the developers spent a year listening to feedback, putting the effort in to right the game proper; and then we still got people that come here and demand that the developers 'come out and be honest' about paid for reviews. Imagine being such a person; that you'd ignore all the effort the developers put into the game over the last year; and rather than think "Wow, they must have really turned this game into something good", you first thought is "I bet they just paid people for good reviews."

If you read reviews from the primary 'gaming sites'; IGN and it's 'ilk'(I won't even dignify the others by naming them); they actually get PAID by game publisher marketing to put upcoming releasing games ads all over their sites, tons of 'preview exclusive' coverage, trailers, gameplay sneakpeaks,, etc and then when the game finally comes out; these sites will give it the most amazing, shining reviews of how it's the Second Coming.

Then after everyone buys it and realizes they were sold a lie, and the games they got paid to hype up are just average at best.

This is a $15-$20 game, not a $60-$70 'AAAA'-Ubisof-turd that has been hyped up by every major 'gaming website'.

I bought it, it's fun. I don't read other people's reviews to validate my purchase; infact I tend to skip over all the positive reviews and go directly to the negative reviews; just to see if there are any glaring issues I should be aware of before I put my money down. I mostly check the forums to see how the players are enjoying it, technical issues, etc.

[LazärheaD]

Payday simps are all over the place...

[Sunday Driver]

Please tell me where I can apply to leave reviews. I write all the time online and no one is paying me. I'm missing out on a big hustle here. MESSAGE ME, DEVELOPERS/PUBLISHERS. I WILL DO REASONABLE RATES AND WILLING TO CLAIM YOUR GAME CURED CANCER AND GAVE ME THE POWER OF FLIGHT IF YOU PAY WELL AND ON TIME.

[[Unintelligible]]

Originally posted by Sunday Driver:

Please tell me where I can apply to leave reviews. I write all the time online and no one is paying me. I'm missing out on a big hustle here. MESSAGE ME, DEVELOPERS/PUBLISHERS. I WILL DO REASONABLE RATES AND WILLING TO CLAIM YOUR GAME CURED CANCER AND GAVE ME THE POWER OF FLIGHT IF YOU PAY WELL AND ON TIME.

I'm much cheaper and I'll claim the game's absolutely flipping phenomenal, just send me a travis baker funko pop