Valve fought over 40 & # 39; reviews & # 39; on Steam in 2019

Bombing & # 39; bomb recycling practice, & # 39; conducting malicious campaigns in order to reduce the game's rating, has become a long online problem. Earlier last year, Valve announced new ways to combat the bombing of the Steam market. In blog post On Wednesday, the PC gaming giant said its new process was working well, so that it has been used more than 40 times in less than a year.

To get a sense of the impact that bombing reviews can have on the digital footprint of a game, one needs to look no further than the current debate Warsters 3: Renewal

. More than 26,830 followers frustrated with depression went to Metacritic to reduce their number of users to 0.5 out of 100. That makes it a platform the cutest game of all time. On Steam, user reviews have an impact on availability, changing what games are offered to consumers in a crowded market. Because of this, review bombs can have a huge impact on sales.

While customers clearly respond to the quality of Blizzard's real-time strategy, in many cases the review of bombing campaigns is closely linked to political or cultural issues. The new Valve process distinguishes between what can be considered an active review and these types of "off-topic" reviews.

"We describe a review article bomb that is one of the focus of this review on an article that we think is unrelated and that future buyers would be happy to buy the game," Valve said in March 2019

, "So it's not something that should be added to the Business Score."

Once the start date and end date of the off-theme shooter campaign had been decided, Steam split all the updates that users had at that time and separated them from the overall game results. Valve says it's been done 44 times over the past 10 months, and will continue to do so by 2020.

"User reviews are one of the most used features in the store," Valve said in a post this week. "It's important that they be clear and honest."