anybody else seen these reviews??

[Corrupt Aether]

i have noticed this review many times on different games. sometimes i find it odd because the games may not be co-op or multiplayer. its not the same person but the exact same review but the age changes and the game title changes but that's it. does steam give rewards for popular reviews because if so this formula is used a lot. here is the review and what it says. i found one on crusader kings 3 and one on hearts of iron 4.

I am a 52 year old father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my son, who is now 14. My son recently downloaded Crusader Kings 3 and in less than a week, he had already played for over 20 hours. This was terrible for me, as it was already hard enough for me to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching videos on Tiktok. 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, did the tutorial 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 my son and I closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house 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.

[Aachen]

Certainly no one has discovered meme reviews before.

[peanut]

It's a copypasta

[Pscht]

Most reviews are completely pointless. Full of memes, copypasta, ASCII art, single word posts or just keyboard mashing.

I found some guy who has made THOUSANDS of "reviews" (note the air quotes), all of them saying "gamesense" and nothing else.

[Ogami]

Thats just sadly how reviews go on Steam.
Thoughtful and well formulated review that talks about the strenghts and weaknesses of a game?
2 Likes and buried somewhere.

Meme review that has nothing to do with the game or ASCII penis art?
200 Likes and Awards and top of the review list.

Its just something i have made my peace with on Steam, one reason i rarely look at reviews here.

[Consumer567]

I am 45 yo and a single father to my Son, who read this game review for me and it was the best time I had spent with my Son since my wife had died.

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by Malashite gamer:

i have noticed this review many times on different games. sometimes i find it odd because the games may not be co-op or multiplayer. its not the same person but the exact same review but the age changes and the game title changes but that's it. does steam give rewards for popular reviews because if so this formula is used a lot. here is the review and what it says. i found one on crusader kings 3 and one on hearts of iron 4.

I am a 52 year old father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my son, who is now 14. My son recently downloaded Crusader Kings 3 and in less than a week, he had already played for over 20 hours. This was terrible for me, as it was already hard enough for me to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching videos on Tiktok. 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, did the tutorial 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 my son and I closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house 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, this is a meme. its an old type where you copy and paste something from somewhere else.

this paragraph gets formatted and changed to fit whatever game it's being posted on.

so its a bunch of people all saying the same thing because they all are in on the same joke. they are not the same person, and these are not bots.

[Joke]

I'm convinced it's for Awards/Points farming.

The first time I saw one of them, it was the top rated review and had literally hundreds of awards.

[Thordred]

It's just award farming:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/jgj1uz/someone_found_a_great_method_to_farm_steam_awards/

[Neoyoshi]

Steam Reviewers Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Flip'n Disgusting.

[Bibo1]

Yes, and Steam doesn't care about those fake reviews.
They're probably laughing all the way to the bank.

[zachjd]

It all started when Valve added the Funny button way back and encouraged more meme reviews. I don't put much effort into reviews because I know it will be overshadowed by jokes. I used to get far more helpful votes back in the day. I could care less though because people are people no matter the system. It's the same anywhere. Everything has to be funny. If it helps the potential buyer, then so be it.

[Elucidator]

The Steam Subscriber Agreement reads:

Valve may restrict or terminate your Account or a particular Subscription for any conduct or activity that is illegal, constitutes a Cheat, or breaches the Steam Online Conduct Rules. You acknowledge that Valve is not required to provide you notice before terminating your Subscription(s) and/or Account.

Considering the "constitues a Cheat" part, since this is abusing the systems in place for 'award farming', it is possible to report them for misconduct and abuse and get their account investigated by the Steam Moderation team.

I don't think Valve wants people to use their systems this way by copy pasting the same sob story (or slightly rewording it) to get a bunch of hearts or whatever, simply so that they can make their profile all "bling bling".

This kind of activity is in my belief highly related to very dark personality traits.
I think they're interested in collapsing the community market using items bought from the point store, which is diffidently against the rules (as manipulation of any market is against the law).
Either that or its purely to create an image that they are better or wealthier than many others.

[LawOfEvolution]

I don't concern myself with Steam Reviews, I need to see gameplay nowadays I've been robbed by FPS too much.

[Bibo1]

Originally posted by Elucidator:

I don't think Valve wants people to use their systems this way by copy pasting the same sob story (or slightly rewording it) to get a bunch of hearts or whatever, simply so that they can make their profile all "bling bling".

I've reported copy&paste reviews in the past. One person whose reviews were the same thing all the time. Weeks later they were still there. So, my take is Steam doesn't care because it keeps their virtual currency (awards) flowing.

[Aachen]

How do you mean? What benefit to Valve that points continue to move around the system?