Steam Reviews manipulated by fake accounts with one game on their accounts.

[Sam Smith]

okay so steam review system is flawed, games companies are manipulating reviews through fake accounts with only 1 game on their profiles, I believe reviews should be only from users with a game value on their account preventing false reviews. by having a minimum requirement to create reviews.

Steam Reviews are misleading and should be changed to show reviews from legit users and players of games, their should be a minimum account requirement with payment history I am losing trust with steam.

[KalGimpa]

if you think this is happening, report the game

steam has taken action against devs/pubs that have manipulated reviews

[Crazy Tiger]

You can also choose to just ignore those reviews. Often enough such reviews are done via key activations, which means that they don't count for the review average anyway.

Everybody should be able to review a game they own. Slapping on such arbitrary measures will just move the goalpasts that bad actors will circumvent and will only hurt genuine users.

That said, report the game via the flag on the right on the store page. Steam takes action if review manipulation is proven.

[StickyPawz]

Doesn't matter how many games you own ... You just need to own the game you've reviewed.

[Sam Smith]

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

You can also choose to just ignore those reviews. Often enough such reviews are done via key activations, which means that they don't count for the review average anyway.

Everybody should be able to review a game they own. Slapping on such arbitrary measures will just move the goalpasts that bad actors will circumvent and will only hurt genuine users.

That is the thing is a game called the sims 4 EA are making fake reviews for their games and I have done some investigating and the users are blank with 1 owned game.

[Sam Smith]

引用自 StickyPawz：

Doesn't matter how many games you own ... You just need to own the game you've reviewed.

you cannot review games you don't own on steam thats the thing the fake accounts own the games but are making misleading fake reviews and I feel games companies are falsifying reviews.

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

You can also choose to just ignore those reviews. Often enough such reviews are done via key activations, which means that they don't count for the review average anyway.

Everybody should be able to review a game they own. Slapping on such arbitrary measures will just move the goalpasts that bad actors will circumvent and will only hurt genuine users.

That is the thing is a game called the sims 4 EA are making fake reviews for their games and I have done some investigating and the users are blank with 1 owned game.

The Sims 4 went FTP. Of course it will attract new players. EA doesn't need to do review manipulation, they have too much fans anyway.

You'll have to provide actual evidence and not gut feelings.

[KalGimpa]

i don't understand the purpose of these posts

report the game to steam if you think that is happening

they have the power to do something here, not us

just an fyi, while companies have been shown to do this, this look like ea hate

when you report it, stick to the facts that you believe you have

use a text editor like notepad and read it back to make sure it doesn't read like there is a bias

[Sam Smith]

引用自 KalCuey：

i don;'t understand the purpose of these posts

report the game to steam if you think that is happening

they have the power to do something here, not us

just an fyi, while companies have been shown to do this, this look like ea hate

when you report it, stick to the facts that you believe you have

use a text editor like notepad and read it back to make sure it doesn't read like there is a bias

Its not Bias at all, the sims 4 game has been well known to be a major flop, I have done research on these fake reviews and these accounts only own one game and are usually the same copy and pasted reviews.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I find it funny. Spent 10 minutes scrolling through the positive reviews only glancing at products owned to find these elusive 1 product owned users you are talking about, found 3 users with only 1 product owned. over 100 hours of game time for 2 of them, the 3rd had over 300 hours game time and see nothing wrong.

[Sam Smith]

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

I find it funny. Spent 10 minutes scrolling through the positive reviews only glancing at products owned to find these elusive 1 product owned users you are talking about, found 3 users with only 1 product owned. over 100 hours of game time for 2 of them, the 3rd had over 300 hours game time and see nothing wrong.

:qr:

you have not looked hard enough a well known fake review from one user saying

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2022 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

I find it funny. Spent 10 minutes scrolling through the positive reviews only glancing at products owned to find these elusive 1 product owned users you are talking about, found 3 users with only 1 product owned. over 100 hours of game time for 2 of them, the 3rd had over 300 hours game time and see nothing wrong.

you have not looked hard enough a well known fake review from one user saying

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2022 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

So what? Report it.

What does that have to do with review manipulation?

Or do you want to change the entire subject of your suggestion to spam reviews?

[Sam Smith]

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

you have not looked hard enough a well known fake review from one user saying

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2022 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

So what? Report it.

What does that have to do with review manipulation?

Or do you want to change the entire subject of your suggestion to spam reviews?

:qr:

reports never work, take a look at this guy https://steamcommunity.com/id/daniel4164/recommended/

purchased over 150 games and all games have 0.1 hours gameplay with the same reviews.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

So what? Report it.

What does that have to do with review manipulation?

Or do you want to change the entire subject of your suggestion to spam reviews?

reports never work, take a look at this guy https://steamcommunity.com/id/daniel4164/recommended/

purchased over 150 games and all games have 0.1 hours gameplay with the same reviews.

You do know that reports aren't instantaneously looked at and acted upon, right?

And that is not "DEVELOPER" review manipulation like you are claiming in your OP. That's just spam.

[Boblin the Goblin]

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

I find it funny. Spent 10 minutes scrolling through the positive reviews only glancing at products owned to find these elusive 1 product owned users you are talking about, found 3 users with only 1 product owned. over 100 hours of game time for 2 of them, the 3rd had over 300 hours game time and see nothing wrong.

:qr:

you have not looked hard enough a well known fake review from one user saying

I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for Christmas in 2022 from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him. I loaded into the game, picked my character and world and started playing but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my Son for help and he hosted a game for me to join. I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died. This game has ever since brought me and my son closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my Son many happy memories.

How the ♥♥♥♥ is that fake?

Is it because he says his son hosted a game? Considering the alleged age of the reviewer, it's easy to think he confused joining a video call or something with his son as 'hosting' the game.

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 Tibbles Mcquibbles：

引用自 cSg|mc-Hotsauce：

So what? Report it.

What does that have to do with review manipulation?

Or do you want to change the entire subject of your suggestion to spam reviews?

reports never work, take a look at this guy https://steamcommunity.com/id/daniel4164/recommended/

purchased over 150 games and all games have 0.1 hours gameplay with the same reviews.

All that shows is that it's a lazy reviewer that copies a spam review. That, or such reviews, isn't indicative of review manipulation by the developer.

People have been doing copy/paste and meme reviews for years now. How come it's now suddenly a problem with The Sims 4