Lordz, Matrix and Slitherine 'under attack'

[Keunert]

Looks like an idiot is creating many accounts to give their games bad ratings. wouldn't be surprised if there is a connection with the latest strangeness in the wargaming community.
maybe our niche hobby needs a deep breath and a good beer:

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=585219

[LongBlade]

Looks like an idiot is creating many accounts to give their games bad ratings. wouldn't be surprised if there is a connection with the latest strangeness in the wargaming community.
maybe our niche hobby needs a deep breath and a good beer:

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=585219

That's not right.

Shouldn't be too difficult to get the IPs of the person(s) doing it. I hope they catch them.

[Cougar_DK]

Very sad  :-[

[Slick Wilhelm]

What a shame. The Lordz have been pouring their hearts and souls into CTGW for years, only to have some moron with a grudge come along and potentially impact sales to the uninformed public.

[Tuna]

I agree it is wrong!.. But on the other hand, the Manufacturers shouldn't be posting 10's in the user area!.. I understand they were probably doing it to offset the bad reviews from the bad user.. but I think the better thing to do would be to get Metacritic to look into it first..

Note: I want and probably will buy this game due to Slick's AAR and other posts here  ;D .. Just wanted to finish my Comander Europe at War Gold game first (figure I might not go back to it once I get this game).

[Nefaro]

Sounds like some verifiable nutjob on the 'net.

The M.O. sounds like it could be a bot, however, since it was just copy&pasting bad reviews from elsewhere.  It'd have to be a more intricately created bot than I've ever seen, though. 

So either way some nutter, with entirely too much time to spread his lunacy,  has spent a LOT of time doing this or creating a bot that does it.   It's disgusting.

[Lord Zimoa]

Manufacturers shouldn't be posting 10's in the user area!..

Just one word, the guy is NUTS.

Someone has been creating many dummy accounts and posting false reviews. They have created accounts for Slitherine, Matrix and the Lordz and are pretending to be us and posting false positive reviews. These reviews have been copied and pasted from other CTGW reviews. At least they are reviews of the the right game...

These are the false developer accounts that were created:
http://www.metacritic.com/user/MatrixGames2012
http://www.metacritic.com/user/SlitherineGames
http://www.metacritic.com/user/LordzGames

These accounts were not set up by us.

Then they have created many more accounts giving very bad reviews. These reviews are copied and pasted from completely different games. You can tell because they talk about features not in the game. For example there are no doors & dungeons in Commander the Great War! :)

[Windigo]

Commander The Great War, wasn't even on my radar (sorry), but some other Grogz threads brought me to this one and through following the link to your website, I now know about the game (and it seems good) - I will probably buy it (sometimes bad publicity is still good publicity).


Cheers

[bboyer66]

Anyone who has spent any time at the Wargamer forums over the past 5 years, knows that there are some real batshit crazies out there. Something like this would be right up their alley.

[Arctic Blast]

This is just bizarre. Hopefully it all gets sorted out.

[airboy]

Sad to see this.  Hopefully it can be corrected.

[Bison]

What the hell is wrong with some people's kids?

[Tuna]

Manufacturers shouldn't be posting 10's in the user area!..

Just one word, the guy is NUTS.

Someone has been creating many dummy accounts and posting false reviews. They have created accounts for Slitherine, Matrix and the Lordz and are pretending to be us and posting false positive reviews. These reviews have been copied and pasted from other CTGW reviews. At least they are reviews of the the right game...

These are the false developer accounts that were created:
http://www.metacritic.com/user/MatrixGames2012
http://www.metacritic.com/user/SlitherineGames
http://www.metacritic.com/user/LordzGames

These accounts were not set up by us.

Then they have created many more accounts giving very bad reviews. These reviews are copied and pasted from completely different games. You can tell because they talk about features not in the game. For example there are no doors & dungeons in Commander the Great War! :)

OK didn't realize that he/she posted the good reviews under the Developer's name as well.. You're right, he/she is a jerk!!

[FrontierCybrarian]

"What evil lurks in the hearts of men, women, kids, infants, teenagers, or is this culprit not even human"?

Kidding aside, this is intolerable to gamers everywhere. Game reviews are often major contributors influencing purchasing or not-purchasing decisions. It's wise to read a breadth of reviews from many sources...IGN, Gamespot, Metacritc, GameRankings, Amazon, applicable forums, friends, gamers skilled/interested in the genre, etc. in determining the "quality" of a game. I've been burnt most often in the purchase of a ("dog"...sorry Fido) when relying on only one/few unbalanced, non-specific, or shallow reviews.

[Zulu1966]

Looks like an idiot is creating many accounts to give their games bad ratings. wouldn't be surprised if there is a connection with the latest strangeness in the wargaming community.
maybe our niche hobby needs a deep breath and a good beer:

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=585219

That's not right.

Shouldn't be too difficult to get the IPs of the person(s) doing it. I hope they catch them.

Well - if anyone can there is a reward for it !

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=585219

(Sorry bout the cross post)

It is an excellent game and this guy needs a visit from someone.