First off, sorry if this has been discussed ad nausium.
Anywho, so i am scrolling through the forums on a game called...well screw it im not gunna say what game it is im not gunna even mention it, and give them free advertising. Let's just say the game is in Early Access. This in of itself is likely to provoke some form of disgust to some readers. To be quite honest i am so damn pissed off at what steam is doing, i am even having a hard time expressing the exact problem in this post.
For Example (and im not going to mention names just for the sake of respect) Starforge, ya you might have heard of it somewhere. It's a game about single/multi player survival on a planet called "Atlas". The game was getting bad reviews about a year or so ago, so bad that i supposed sales for the game were dropping, the reason for the bad reviews is because the game was terrible to the person who reviewed the game...sounds like common sense to write a bad review about a game you didn't like right? Not to the developers of the game, they took these bad reviews so personal, they ended up tearing down almost every bad review both on steam, and on their own forums going as far as wiping some regular forum posters on their website from existence. This to me, is the single most damaging thing you can do for your reputation, sorry when you go "Kim Jong Un" on a person, i lose all respect for you. Why? why should anyone be too afriad to express their constructive opinion about something? why should anyone have to be angry, just because someone expressed a bad review about their product?
I know this is beginning to sound like a rant, but the bottom line here is that free market in this new day and age isn't always limited to what you spend your money on. It should also be about gathering information from others either by reviews, word of mouth, or some other form. Then selecting the best product for your need/want. Honestly, Steam should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen, and yes i understand that some reviews are more along the lines of trolling than being constructive..this is not what i am referring to. I agree with deleting, or closing forum posts that are considered trolling, however wiping someone off the face of you website just because they found your flagship product crappy, is not a good reason to do so.
TLDR - Steam top brass seems to find it ok to let Game devs, delete constructive negative reviews. This is bad, and is the opposite of a REAL free market.
Anywho, so i am scrolling through the forums on a game called...well screw it im not gunna say what game it is im not gunna even mention it, and give them free advertising. Let's just say the game is in Early Access. This in of itself is likely to provoke some form of disgust to some readers. To be quite honest i am so damn pissed off at what steam is doing, i am even having a hard time expressing the exact problem in this post.
For Example (and im not going to mention names just for the sake of respect) Starforge, ya you might have heard of it somewhere. It's a game about single/multi player survival on a planet called "Atlas". The game was getting bad reviews about a year or so ago, so bad that i supposed sales for the game were dropping, the reason for the bad reviews is because the game was terrible to the person who reviewed the game...sounds like common sense to write a bad review about a game you didn't like right? Not to the developers of the game, they took these bad reviews so personal, they ended up tearing down almost every bad review both on steam, and on their own forums going as far as wiping some regular forum posters on their website from existence. This to me, is the single most damaging thing you can do for your reputation, sorry when you go "Kim Jong Un" on a person, i lose all respect for you. Why? why should anyone be too afriad to express their constructive opinion about something? why should anyone have to be angry, just because someone expressed a bad review about their product?
I know this is beginning to sound like a rant, but the bottom line here is that free market in this new day and age isn't always limited to what you spend your money on. It should also be about gathering information from others either by reviews, word of mouth, or some other form. Then selecting the best product for your need/want. Honestly, Steam should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen, and yes i understand that some reviews are more along the lines of trolling than being constructive..this is not what i am referring to. I agree with deleting, or closing forum posts that are considered trolling, however wiping someone off the face of you website just because they found your flagship product crappy, is not a good reason to do so.
TLDR - Steam top brass seems to find it ok to let Game devs, delete constructive negative reviews. This is bad, and is the opposite of a REAL free market.