In an age of user reviews, the practice of review bombing has become a serious problem. The tactic involves large groups of people leaving negative reviews in
In an age of user reviews, the practice of review bombing has become a serious problem. The tactic involves large groups of people leaving negative reviews in an effort to ruin a product’s review score, and nowhere has it been more apparent than on Valve’s Steam marketplace. The last few years have seen the company take steps to fight review bombing, which is less about evaluating a game and more about retaliation, and now they’re adding a new tool to the arsenal.
After evaluating feedback from both players and developers, Valve explains that it will now start hiding off-topic reviews and not including them when calculating the overall user scores for a game.
