Create a new title to avoid the reviews of old? Think again!

Muir also deleted all the comments on his review regarding peoples opinion that he was basically acting as a brazen company shill. classic.

It makes you wonder, just how many do-overs 22cans is going to demand/ask/beg for until they finally realize that they are doing this to themselves.

"Gabe! Gabe!!! Look at all these meanies! Delete their reviews!!! Because words!!! Gabe! gabe? hello?"

Not even Steam is going to put up with this kind of community abuse for long.

Maybe Godus will change the world, by showing it what not to do.

Muir reviewed it?

Hahahaha, so true.

@undeadoverpromise - After having it pointed out that having "disclaimer" on the third line is what is counted as a "buried disclaimer" (as in NOT clearly marked at the beginning or end of a statement)...does the review not show up at all, but is counted.  Only 6 of the positive reviews now show up for the 11/39 reviews.

I wonder if it has occurred to 22cans that VALVe knows about many other forms of review tampering that making a new game is extremely old news and...doesn't work anymore.

VALVe were probably already aware of this and smirkingly handed out another distro number to 22cans, and beat us all by having the popcorn already popped for the release date:  If I had to deal with a bunch of scummy developers of the likes of Digital Homicide and 22cans causing more work for my distro service - as 22cans kept pushing the buck of refunds onto "Steam Support" as long as abusively possible - I'd do the same.

I assume that means you had to click on his review to see the disclaimer?

Speaking of avoiding reviews and review tampering...

According to tikigod in the comments of his review, it was flagged as "Off-topic" by 22cans.

steamcommunity.com/id/Tikigod/recommended/422420/

Do you have any archive of that notification?

doesnt matter cause even if the Review were off Topic its not against the steam rules  only if the Review were insulting or offensive cmon 22cans please even  try  to do your job

No heads-up or notification directly from Valve, just this on my review when I go to view it:

The delivery, if they were not looking for this kind of reaction, should be an example of what not to do:

Provides a public narrative that only makes it look as if 22cans aren't taking development seriously for months.
Claim to PC users that they are still working on the game using feedback.
Claim to the mobile audience that more content is being worked on.
Go silent for months at a time.
Prove that they weren't taking their overall feedback seriously by updating one Early Access title to another in hopes of resetting the review scores and escaping the legacy of the forums, for how they snubbed their community/backers/customers in both Kickstarter and Early Access ALREADY...
The "new" title crateres spectacularly.

You couldn't have asked for better instant karma for such a PR nightmare.



I feel for Konrad in that his work might have been subverted and left bereft of what even he utilised for a while here - public feedback. 22cans stifled the feedback about what really needed to be done with the game into this sudden vision Peter's had since the start - lovely obvious arsepull, Peter.

Given how this has turned out, and with the timing of why some screens were moved from the Twitch channel, then the channel stopped, Godus Wars was indeed one of those things planned out nearly from The Shit.



I'm not. If Konrad's still about his original ideals then he could simply look at the brain trust responsible for this delivery with an 'I told you so' expression.

I cannot seriously believe that Konrad would suggest a completely new title would somehow cut the mustard, pass muster, etc. with those already expecting reform from Early Access. Perhaps someone might have convinced him to agree upon it based upon "a new review slate" and "it might be judged upon its own efforts" or maybe even "to show the unfairness of the Steam review system" (oh, that part is what Peter will say in a "not speaking to the press" interview later on), but I cannot believe that he could come up with a solution to an Early Access mistake is to shit the bed even harder.

This has Simon and Colin written all over it.