The graph will also give you a note that the review behavior is unusual and that there may be review bombing going on.
Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t noticed it getting worse, and I think Valve is doing the best thing they can to mitigate it by way of recent reviews and the review graph. When you can see when a review bomb started, you can cross reference that date against news for that game in your favorite search engine. If the review bomb is truly frivolous, it will pass in no time at all.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Novamdomum@fedia.io 1 day ago
That's good to know.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They’ve also segregated reviews by language. So now when a single group starts review bombing (usually China, from the reports I’ve heard) the rest of us are unaffected.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
echodot@feddit.uk 17 minutes ago
I think the point is that Chinese review bots are usually trying to dunk on Western games. It seems to be some brilliant new strategy they’ve come up with.
“If we poorly review Western games everyone will buy ours instead”, I’m sure it’ll work brilliantly.