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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span> <\/figure>\n It\u2019s an more and more frequent chorus: consumer evaluations, notably on Steam<\/span> and Metacritic<\/span>, are more and more unhelpful. We\u2019ve covered all of the sides of evaluation<\/span>\u00a0bombing<\/span>\u00a0for years<\/span>, however what\u2019s fascinating is that some builders themselves are backing the concept of scrapping consumer evaluations altogether.<\/p>\n This story <\/em><\/small>initially appeared on Kotaku Australia<\/em><\/small><\/span>.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n The talk fired up earlier this week, though the dialogue concerning the weaponisation of Steam evaluations and its impact on builders has all the time been effervescent underneath the floor. Earlier this 12 months, the three-team studio behind Kunai <\/em>complained about how a single reviewer had trashed their consumer ranking from 8.1 to 1.7.<\/span> The devs behind AI: The Somnium Recordsdata <\/em>made a public plea for assist after their rating plummeted years after release<\/a><\/span>. Numerous video games have been focused by communities for evaluation bombing previously, with the marketing campaign towards Taiwanese horror sport Devotion <\/em>so profitable it was pulled from Steam.<\/span><\/p>\n So consumer evaluations, evidently, aren\u2019t good. However regardless of all the issues, David Szymanski<\/a><\/span>, creator of the excellent retro shooter DUSK<\/em>,<\/span> argued that many of the criticism towards consumer evaluations, Steam\u2019s particularly, was misdirected. \u201cI need to once more reiterate how damaging [removing user reviews] can be for lots of builders, Symanski wrote in a thread that went viral<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n