Steam Shields Borderlands Games from Review Bombing [Apr 06, 2019, 2:13 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A tweet from
Steam Database notes that Borderlands 2 is the first game to benefit
from Valve's recently announced plan
to prevent malicious review bombing of titles on Steam. Word is: "Borderlands
2 is the first game on Steam to make use of the 'off-topic reviews' marking.
Over 4000 reviews are excluded from the rating calculation." Similarly,
off-topic reviews for the original Borderlands are also being filtered
from the main results. The bombings in question stems from the
recent
announcement that Borderlands 3 will be exclusive to the Epic Games
Store for the first six months following the release of the shooter sequel. An
interesting aside here is that although Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford
placed
responsibility for the store exclusivity on publisher 2K Games,
he tweeted
about bitterness over Valve's disinterest in addressing the review bombing
before they ultimately did just that. Ironically (especially since he
characterized his complaint as ironic), he said it makes him "kind of happy
about 2k’s decision" and that this motivated him to "want to reconsider Gearbox
Publishing’s current posture on the platform."
Also, calling 30% "Mafia-style" is absurd. 30% is the standard cut for digital storefronts. It's the same cut that Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, GOG, Apple and Google take. Steam offers more features than all of those platforms. EGS offers 12% because it literally has no features and a tiny selection. It also passes overhead costs on to the customer.
Absolutely - 30% is standard, and quite fair considering what you’re getting. (hosting, modding support, transactions, forums, chat... the list goes on)
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