do they delete negative reviews?

[Bryan]

i mean sure the game is good but wth the game literally has almost no negative reviews, 99% positive recent and 97% positive overall, that's straight up impossible no matter how good a game is.

[Chris!!]

"It's not possible."

"Not probable."

[argrond]

The game is too rational and addictive, it prevents outer negativity and encourages inner positive. )

[Fel]

They don't delete them and they don't need to.
For starters, the fact that this game doesn't go on sale (coupled with the existence of the demo) means that only people that want to play this game will purchase it.

You can look at the data, there are over 6000 negative ones, old and new, they are just drowned in the mass of the 200,000 positive ones.
There are still some negative ones coming in nearly every day as well.
Also to note is that there were two periods of time where some tried to engage in "review bombing", not to a great effect (152 and 900 negatives respectively) and filtered by steam for the percentages.

The game is close to being bug-free thanks to devs that care about their game, that definitely helps a lot as well.

And if you look at the expansion, it is at "only" 89% for the recent ones and 94% for all times.
Many of the negatives over there mention Gleba because that planet offers a fairly unique challenge that some people really dislike.


Funny enough, the percentage could even be higher than that since all of the "reviews" (I hate using that word here since it's not proper reviews) from the people that bought outside of steam (including before the game came to steam) and that got a steam key don't count towards the percentage.
Those are even more overwhelmingly positive since people that didn't like the game from before it came to steam wouldn't have bothered coming back to it just to get the steam key and leave a thumbs down (unless they really hated it I guess).

[Strategic Sage]

It's not impossible, and no they don't delete negative reviews.

[Chindraba]

Originally posted by Bryan:

i mean sure the game is good but wth the game literally has almost no negative reviews, 99% positive recent and 97% positive overall, that's straight up impossible no matter how good a game is.

Steam does, and will, remove reviews they think are part of a review bomb attempt. They also mark in the review history when they do that. It's not a common thing, but it does happen, to indie and AAA alike. I support that as I'd rather see reviews by people who are reviewing the game not trying to slam the devs, the studio or the game for some perceived personal or social cause. That, however, is Steam's doing. AFAIK the game studio has no ability to delete reviews. That would be rather pointless for a review system.

Your assertion of "straight up impossible" is straight up wrong. As good as it is, the review ranking of Factorio is only good enough to qualify for the 43rd slot in Steam's Top 250 list. How good the other games are is beyond me. Never touched a single one of them. The fans seem to like them though. Stardew Valley has the top slot with a 99% positive overall.

[Khaylain]

You should probably look to the games that actually have 100% positive reviews XD

But no, no developer/publisher is allowed to unilaterally delete or censor reviews of their game on the Steam platform. Valve controls the reviews because it's in Valves interest to keep them reasonably correct and not manipulated by any developers.

Try to put some thinking into things and logic out how and why things actually work.

[Fel]

Originally posted by Khaylain:

You should probably look to the games that actually have 100% positive reviews XD

But no, no developer/publisher is allowed to unilaterally delete or censor reviews of their game on the Steam platform. Valve controls the reviews because it's in Valves interest to keep them reasonably correct and not manipulated by any developers.

Try to put some thinking into things and logic out how and why things actually work.

Has that changed then?
I remember some dodgy developpers deleting negative reviews in large quantities, but that was a long time ago so maybe steam removed that ability from the developers and publishers since then.

[SMJSMOK]

Originally posted by Chindraba:

Steam does, and will, remove reviews they think are part of a review bomb attempt.

AFAIK what happens in such cases is this: The developer/publisher marks the reviews as off-topic (invoking Steam's user review guidelines). Someone from Valve then goes through these requests and if they confirm them, the reviews are then marked off-topic and excluded from the percentages you see at the title's store page.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by Fel:

Originally posted by Khaylain:

You should probably look to the games that actually have 100% positive reviews XD

But no, no developer/publisher is allowed to unilaterally delete or censor reviews of their game on the Steam platform. Valve controls the reviews because it's in Valves interest to keep them reasonably correct and not manipulated by any developers.

Try to put some thinking into things and logic out how and why things actually work.

Has that changed then?
I remember some dodgy developpers deleting negative reviews in large quantities, but that was a long time ago so maybe steam removed that ability from the developers and publishers since then.

That is exactly why Valve removed that ability.

[GAMING_Alligator]

Nah. Stay on this forum for a while, and you'll see that the only really negative thing some people come up with is crying about it costing money. And they usually do that to either troll us or because they're e-begging. Putting it in review form achieves neither of these so they won't usually bother.

High ratings are legit. It's still the best factory game there is.

[Judge Dread]

Originally posted by Fel:

They don't delete them and they don't need to.
For starters, the fact that this game doesn't go on sale (coupled with the existence of the demo) means that only people that want to play this game will purchase it.

You can look at the data, there are over 6000 negative ones, old and new, they are just drowned in the mass of the 200,000 positive ones.
There are still some negative ones coming in nearly every day as well.
Also to note is that there were two periods of time where some tried to engage in "review bombing", not to a great effect (152 and 900 negatives respectively) and filtered by steam for the percentages.

The game is close to being bug-free thanks to devs that care about their game, that definitely helps a lot as well.

And if you look at the expansion, it is at "only" 89% for the recent ones and 94% for all times.
Many of the negatives over there mention Gleba because that planet offers a fairly unique challenge that some people really dislike.


Funny enough, the percentage could even be higher than that since all of the "reviews" (I hate using that word here since it's not proper reviews) from the people that bought outside of steam (including before the game came to steam) and that got a steam key don't count towards the percentage.
Those are even more overwhelmingly positive since people that didn't like the game from before it came to steam wouldn't have bothered coming back to it just to get the steam key and leave a thumbs down (unless they really hated it I guess).

I see the point of Gleba. I personally played through it once then used mods to alter the experience to my liking... such is the power of Factorio modding. Don't like something? Odds are there's a mod that can change it/fix it. Idk what kind of frankly silly post question the OP made, it's just weird. It's almost like they can't imagine a game that's just... really good. OP feels like an attempt at a really bad steam point jester bait.

[Loy]

Originally posted by Bryan:

i mean sure the game is good but wth the game literally has almost no negative reviews, 99% positive recent and 97% positive overall, that's straight up impossible no matter how good a game is.

This is truly a once in awhile game. It is old by now and they stuck to what brought people in. It's simply good ♥♥♥♥ man.

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

Originally posted by Khaylain:

You should probably look to the games that actually have 100% positive reviews XD

But no, no developer/publisher is allowed to unilaterally delete or censor reviews of their game on the Steam platform. Valve controls the reviews because it's in Valves interest to keep them reasonably correct and not manipulated by any developers.

Try to put some thinking into things and logic out how and why things actually work.

thats not true, Blender forced valve to remove my review of the game

[Khagan]

Originally posted by They/Them ChesseTheWasp:

Blender forced valve to remove my review of the game

If you really think Blender is a game then you have more serious problems than a review or two going AWOL.

[Fel]

The only reviews valve removes are those that break their rules, same as with posts in the forums (although dedicated mods set by the publisher for a specific game can technically do more than that, there haven't been one for Factorio for ages though).