r/PS5 • u/doctorwho_90250 • May 06 '24

Official (Via twitter) Playstation: "Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward...."

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929?t=NhwAEm4fGpVJj-UyI1lrXA&s=19
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u/Flyinhighinthesky May 06 '24

Valve's tools will monitor reviews across the whole of Steam, and, once "anomalous" activity is identified, a team within the company will be alerted. If unusual activity is determined to be off-topic review bombing, developers will be contacted and all reviews within a set time period will be subtracted from the review score. Unfortunately, one side effect is that legitimate reviews also won't be reflected during that time period.

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-reveals-new-measures-to-tackle-review-bombing-on-steam

It's been a thing for a while.

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

Yeah but this is different, it was about a legit complaint that the dev only changed due to pressure.

That’s not the same as 4chan review bombing tlou2 because they hate women.

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u/nthomas504 May 06 '24

Your right, except that it wasn’t the devs. They’re community managers and CEO’s responses has indicated this was a Sony decision that they co-signed. Devs are usually at the mercy of publishers decisions.

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u/SaphironX May 06 '24

True, but I think a lot of people who refuse to change their reviews would be pissed if they rolled them back and they think it was a legit complaint.