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Positive Review Bombing

As you may see there is an asterisk beside the review number on the store page. We have experienced a positive review bombing but to make the review system trustworthy and consistent the Steam moderation group removed a

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removedAs you may see there is an asterisk beside the review number on the store page. We have experienced a positive review bombing but to make the review system trustworthy and consistent the Steam moderation group removed all involved reviews.
removedWhy this review bombing happened? We, as the DEV team ran a promotion on our Discord server that gave ingame items if the player had a positive review on Steam. This campaign resulted in a positive review spike. It was against the Steam Distribution Agreement so the moderation team of Steam removed those reviews.

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removedAs you may see there is an asterisk beside the review number on the store page. We have experienced a positive review bombing but to make the review system trustworthy and consistent the Steam moderation group removed all involved reviews.
removedWhy this review bombing happened? We, as the DEV team ran a promotion on our Discord server that gave ingame items if the player had a positive review on Steam. This campaign resulted in a positive review spike. It was against the Steam Distribution Agreement so the moderation team of Steam removed those reviews.

As you may see there is an asterisk beside the review number on the store page. We have experienced a positive review bombing but to make the review system trustworthy and consistent the Steam moderation group removed all involved reviews.

Why this review bombing happened? We, as the DEV team ran a promotion on our Discord server that gave ingame items if the player had a positive review on Steam. This campaign resulted in a positive review spike. It was against the Steam Distribution Agreement so the moderation team of Steam removed those reviews.

On behalf of the development team, we would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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