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Gamboleer 1 Jul, 2019 @ 2:17am
Woods Looting: Hundreds of Peculiar Reviews
I came across this game while doing my Discovery Queue for the Summer Sale. "Woods Looting". You'll have to sort the reviews to show all languages, and you'll see three massive clusters of positive review bombs, most recently on June 24, a string of new accounts with a single game / review.

How does one flag this kind of thing? The report flag on a game page has multiple choices, but none cover suspected review abuse.
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Originally posted by Mellow_Online1:
I got an email back from Valve's Alden Kroll.

"Hi Mellow,



Thanks for the report. We looked closer at the dev of Woods Looting and did indeed find quite a bit of manipulation of the reviews there. We are ending our business agreement with that person.



Thanks for the heads-up."
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Michel Baie 2 Jul, 2019 @ 8:17am 
So, game's link (always useful) :

https://steamhost.cn/app/1043680/Woods_Looting/

And, huh, yeah, there's something going on there.
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Zeusberg 2 Jul, 2019 @ 8:29am 
Something else interesting: through your link widget shows Commercial License which is 30 RUR for me currently, while on the game page only regular license with a price of 60 RUR is visible.
Is this on purpose? My account has is not related to Steam Cafe program in any way (that's what commercial licenses are for).
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Mellow_Online1 2 Jul, 2019 @ 10:10am 
Thanks for the report, I'll see about passing the information over to Valve.

As for when you flag items, the best thing to use when reporting false positive reviews is legal violation as this method falls under as violation of a lot of consumer protection laws and in some jurisdictions for product misrepresentation.
Last edited by Mellow_Online1; 3 Jul, 2019 @ 3:14pm
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Gamboleer 2 Jul, 2019 @ 3:34pm 
Thanks -- I forgot about the consumer protection angle. Noted for the future.
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SirViolentDeath 2 Jul, 2019 @ 9:13pm 
The game and the developer are now banned
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Mellow_Online1 3 Jul, 2019 @ 12:04am 
I got an email back from Valve's Alden Kroll.

"Hi Mellow,



Thanks for the report. We looked closer at the dev of Woods Looting and did indeed find quite a bit of manipulation of the reviews there. We are ending our business agreement with that person.



Thanks for the heads-up."
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backohead74 3 Jul, 2019 @ 3:36pm 
Another one bites the dust!
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tikiman572 3 Jul, 2019 @ 9:25pm 
Fine work guys. Fine work.
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