I haven’t reviewed any of the games I’m in the credits for. Mostly cause I haven’t played or owned them.
Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 days ago
From the forum post:
Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.
Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.
Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn’t doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they’re just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company’s product
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn’t get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up
PalimpsestNavigator@midwest.social 2 days ago
I bet someone got it in their head that slow reviews were the reason the company wasn’t meeting a goal, and they asked everyone to contribute.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The download functionality also has been broken for a while and not working for lots of users, even LTT made a video about it
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 days ago
While I don’t think it’s a great look, employees can be customers/users too. I can’t imagine a Plex employee wouldn’t actually use Plex either. They should have disclosed that they’re an employee in the review.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yes, but since you are working on the product itself, it’s heavily biased.
He can use the app without leaving a review.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He can be working on whatever unrelated part and just be excited about the product that his company makes. It’s not impossible