Velcro Fly
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and if it actually succeeds it will be worse
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Amazon censoring Titanfall reviews - Must hit dat 5 stars rating.
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and if it actually succeeds it will be worse
Shouldn't verified purchase users be safe ?
LOL
Plasticine
Member
Thanks to this thread I reported one of the 1 star reviews because the reviewer indicated they didn't buy the game. Thanks, OP for helping ensure Titanfall gets a higher star ranking!
TheSinkingKnight
Member
I'd assume so, but if they are being reported by a lot of people, that must supersede the verified purchase.
Glass Shark
Banned
what a twist
Hahaha
I love how the comments are full of shills.
Punkster_NY
Member
EA and MS don't respect shit. smh
That means trolls have shifted balance.
The conspiracy theory here is embarrassing. If you want to see what kind of energy would fuel trolls and counter trolls, just look at this thread.
Doesn't even have to be games.
SwiftDeath
Member
I imagine Amazon is having trouble removing the trolling reviews that should legitimately be removed [non-verified, obvious troll] and some verified legit reviews got hit in the crossfire
Probably this. I imagine reviews that get hit with too many unhelpfuls get automatically unpublished and have to go to manual moderation.
I don't think I ever reviewed the PS4. I dont actually own one lol.
Not if that review is reported multiple times. Algorithms most likely kick in without human interaction.
Forgottonone
Member
Doing everything in your power and using your resources to attempt to make this game lose some sales in no way shape or form could be considered Caring.
Well he clearly bought it, it was an Amazon Verified Purchase.
he even provided a picture
Now is it some vast conspiracy? I highly doubt it.
yesIs the OP of that thread even a verified purchaser?
http://www.amazon.com/review/R70HPCOTA2FGW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
Nah, he means the OP of the amazon thread.
LyleLanley
Banned
That sounds exactly like caring to me.
Forgottonone
Member
Is the OP of that thread even a verified purchaser?
Are the Trigger grips really worth it? Always interested but skeptical.
Is the OP of that thread even a verified purchaser?
The funny thing is how it took him 4 times to turn on the x1 via voice command, but he just pressed the on button on the ps4 to turn it on...
Just use the Nerf protector, if gives you enough of a grip for the Vita without having the, to me, awkward feeling of the trigger grips.
Edit:Oh God shilling for Nerf going on here.
BruiserBear
Banned
It most certainly is about them caring. All this drama would not exist if the game was coming to the PS4. They're upset about that, thus they care.
Sarcasm? That's definitely caring quite a bit
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
This is possible too. Does amazon remove a review until the edits are approved?
Of course it would then be resolution wars if it was multi platform. Always a battle to be fought somewhere in console wars.
Forgottonone
Member
"the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves"," esp. sick and elderly people."
"the caring professions"
So there is an art of caring for the people who may make the terrible choice of buying titanfall so giving it just a plain out 1 out 5 stars and say it sucks.
At Least give it a 2.5-3.5 and be convincing and these caring people might be able to trick on the fence buyers.
Well he clearly bought it, it was an Amazon Verified Purchase.
he even provided a picture
Now is it some vast conspiracy? I highly doubt it.
yes
http://www.amazon.com/review/R70HPCOTA2FGW/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
I think these reviews must be pulled by some automated system. I don't see this one and I saw the top five star review disappear and then now it seems to have reappeared.
What is?
No, but they do temporarily remove comments that are spammed too much until they're up for review. Which would make sense, radicals for the X1 and PS4 are probably only targeting the top and bottom comments as Spam. Explains why things like 2 star ratings are barely, (if at all,) affected.
Yea, that's it.
Not you. The OP of the Amazon thread.
Yeah, it has brought out the worst in both sides. One side criticize and downplaying titanfall to an extreme. While the other side rubs it in the face about Sony and no games and downplaying sony exclusives. Height of console wars lol
Most likely. Two factions are reporting them en masse and it's auto taking them down.
meanspartan
Member
Why would Amazon be carrying water for Microsoft?
Poimandres
Member
So legit 5 star reviews are getting removed as well? Bizarre.
I think the theory that any flagged review automatically gets removed might be what's going on here.
I think the theory that any flagged review automatically gets removed might be what's going on here.
They're not.
Glass Shark
Banned
They wouldn't.
It was obviously a trade to let them steal Double Helix.
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
LOL
I just placed an order for the game, posted a review and then canceled my order. It still shows me as verified purchaser
haha
I just placed an order for the game, posted a review and then canceled my order. It still shows me as verified purchaser
haha
Plasticine
Member
Amazon already pulled the review I reported. Titanfall must be getting flooded with questionable reviews so Amazon is probably taking a kill 'em all and sort 'em out later approach to reported reviews.
edit:
I believe you have a window to review before the system stops adding that tag to your reviews.
edit:
I believe you have a window to review before the system stops adding that tag to your reviews.
CambriaRising
Member
A+ *thumbsup*
3rdamention
Member
The way I look at it, Amazon has every right to remove NON VERIFIED PURCHASE reviews for their items. I have no problem with that. People can just go bash an item they do not own, because they don't like it. Or, in the case of video games, because of Console Wars.
However, if they are going to have reviews, and share them on their site, they should at least keep all the VERIFIED PURCHASE reviews, whether they are negative or positive.
And do this for every product. People shit on review scores for all types of products. I have seen poor reviews for a product because of the way that Amazon shipped or packaged it, which has nothing to do with the quality of the product.
However, I have never seen this happen on Amazon, or heard of it before. That makes this pretty, uhm, weird? Why now? Why this game? After the paid for positives debacle Microsoft went through with youtube, then finding out EA has run similar promotions with Machinima as well, this is hard for me to find as a coincidence.
Maybe this is just some hacker attack, like Gies was claiming happened to the Xbox Live outage on Xbox One yesterday. /s
However, if they are going to have reviews, and share them on their site, they should at least keep all the VERIFIED PURCHASE reviews, whether they are negative or positive.
And do this for every product. People shit on review scores for all types of products. I have seen poor reviews for a product because of the way that Amazon shipped or packaged it, which has nothing to do with the quality of the product.
However, I have never seen this happen on Amazon, or heard of it before. That makes this pretty, uhm, weird? Why now? Why this game? After the paid for positives debacle Microsoft went through with youtube, then finding out EA has run similar promotions with Machinima as well, this is hard for me to find as a coincidence.
Maybe this is just some hacker attack, like Gies was claiming happened to the Xbox Live outage on Xbox One yesterday. /s
You need a better dictionary .
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Well there's clearly something going on with it because they're still disappearing. So what makes the most sense? To me the most logical answer is people are reporting the reviews and getting them auto removed.
Could test it on one of the reviews that's been up for awhile and see if it gets removed.
edit: and it just dropped from 113 reviews to 94. Both good and bad being removed.
Could test it on one of the reviews that's been up for awhile and see if it gets removed.
edit: and it just dropped from 113 reviews to 94. Both good and bad being removed.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Waging a console war in the user/customer review section has never made sense to me.