Review-bombed Borderlands 2 is the first to have thrown user scores by Steam

Borderlands 2 is the first game to display Steam's "Review off topic" flag in its user reviews, under new measures enacted last month to combat "bombing critics" of games by discontented players of their publishers or developers on something else.

Sure Borderlands 2According to the comments of its 92,497 users, the 2012 game is classified as "extremely positive", and 1,107 recent comments are classified as "very positive". As an accompaniment, it should be noted that April 3 to April 6 range of comments "contai[n] we believe that an abnormal set of opinions is largely unrelated to the likelihood that you are enjoying the product. "These evaluations are excluded from Borderlands 2The aggregate reputation score.

Players love a nine-year old game on Steam, as Gearbox Software and 2K Games announced on April 3 that the PC version Borderlands 3 will be exclusive to the new Epic Games Store for six months after its launch. This is the third major exclusivity of the Epic storefront, launched in December 2018. Metro: Exodus and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 both avoided Steam for Epic Games Store, pissing the players but not so much.

Shelling of critics has become a problem for Steam and the publishers and developers who sell games there. Valve announced on March 15 its intention to target and remove off-topic complaints. This was the latest in several attempts to counter the abuse of its consumer commenting system. Previous methods included graphs highlighting "temporary distortions" in the comment cycle and a way to determine whether a person's examination was useful, unnecessary or "fun". Nevertheless, the overall score of a game taken into account in each comment, even if its intention was doubtful.

Doug Lombardi, of Valve, told Ars Technica last night that when a review activity period by a player is flagged as suspicious, any revisions left in that period do not count toward the score. However, critics will remain and will be available for reading, and individual users may change their preferences to include them in the overall rating of the review.

Epic Games has suffered many accusations, some false, others less, but all are related to the fact that a game AAA is in his store and not Steam. Epic Games Store still does not offer user feedback, and Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney said the platform would not add enough until the company is convinced. to have put in place measures to thwart the campaigns of critics with the bomb. Sweeney also said that when implementing user reviews, developers will have the choice to allow them to use their games. If they do not, none will be accepted.

Epic Games announced at GDC 2019 that the Epic Games Store was offering three other highly anticipated games, PC exclusives at launch: Remedy's Control, Obsidian Entertainment The outer worlds, and Ancestors: The odyssey of the man, the first game of the new studio of Patrice Désilets, Panache Digital Games. Quantic Dream also announced the removal of three games from its previous catalog – 2010 Heavy rain, 2013 Beyond two souls and from last year Detroit: Becoming human – on PC exclusively on Epic Games Store. These were all PlayStation exclusives to date.