Huh, the review at the very top was written by Roberta Williams herself, I think this is the first time I've seen the head developer themself having the top review on their own game's storepage. It's also cool that she's still making games after all these years, even if this is just a remake of an old title.
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You don't see it often because devs are discouraged from reviewing their games. The rules for it aren't very clear, since it's usually written in ways like 'developers are not allowed to manipulate review scores' or 'developers cannot mislead customers' which is usually what you see when devs get banned for reviewing their own games.
They've likely overlooked it for a few reasons (review is mostly straightforward about being a dev and is just informational, Williams' name in the industry) but devs are typically meant to use the Announcements system for this sort of thing.
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thats why we need a "neutral" or "informative" selection and not only "positiv" or "negativ"
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Not neutral, this would be good for a player who rates the game, because neutral also has a value. Better would be an informative tag, especially for devs.
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I've had plenty of cases where I wanted to be able to select 'neutral', but I think its exclusion is pretty deliberate and makes sense. They want to capture the peaks (or troughs depending on how you look at it) of player reactions, if it's not a strong enough feeling to pick one of the two then it probably shouldn't be a review.
As for informative, I'd rather those be forum posts, guides, and curators. Getting hit with a wall of 'informative' saying to get this mod or that fix or that such and such service is now deprecated or the game contains XYZ AntiCheat... well I think that would drive away as many sales as a wall of negative reviews.
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Interesting to get confirmation that this is something not meant to happen, I do agree that the rule makes sense.
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The product description is the developer's opportunity to review their game. Actually posting a review of your own game is shady.
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You're right, it is kinda shady. But I doubt anyone at Valve has it in them to tell her no considering that the Williams' old company (Sierra) were the ones that originally gave Valve a chance and published their first game, and also the Williams are old and are considered pioneers on the PC games industry, so I guess it's a form of favoritism.
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imagine a negative review instead from its own creator, i would buy that one
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Can you post a screenshot? The top review for me is by tom.duncan3...
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It seems to be gone from the top now, maybe Steam support noticed that the whole thing was a bit sus and quietly moved away from the main page. You can still see the review here and see that it has a lot of upvotes, and it also still shows as top review when you click to see all reviews (pic bellow).
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Looks meh. Also dev didn't even bother to at least tick the "product received for free" while still wanting to "review" their game. Which is just them posting an update about what's new.
We have news, patch notes, updates and discussions for that...
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Deal
EDIT: Now with a new HL of 80%.
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