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GalCiv III: Stardock needs your help

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GalCiv III: Stardock needs your help

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Hi guys,

We're less than 2 days from release! We've gone gold.  

For those of you who have been playing the game recently, we could really use your help on something in particular: Steam user reviews.  We are currently 79%.  We've been on an upward trend since Beta 6 (we were at 66%!).

If we get to 80%, the rating changes to "Very positive".  It would only take a handful of positive reviews to reach that point by release day.  

 

Here's the URL: http://store.steampowered.com/app/226860/ 

 

 

Thanks!

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Reply #51 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just put in my review sitting at 81% positive. Good job with this game guys, hope it sells well.

Reply #52 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I think the point of the request from Stardock was never to prevent anyone from being honest in a review.  The point is they know a lot of us who absolutely love the game are typical lazy forgetful procrastinating gamer geeks who would gladly put down their controllers and put up a positive review if someone just nudged them a little.

Nudge, nudge.  ;)

 

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Reply #53 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I did ask about this in the stream, especially since I somewhat view Steam Reviews being on par with User Metacritic

However there are visibility metrics that rely heavily on Steam Reviews. Aka being featured on the main rotation or other visibilty things on Steam. So I can understand that ensuring people put in reviews is an important thing.

Reply #54 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Another reason we need your help is that often times, people use the reviews to punish the game for things that have nothing to do with the game itself or other (imo) unreasonable objectives such as:

  1. Negative review because they're having trouble with it on the Windows 10 beta (we don't support Windows 10)
  2. negative review becauuse it should be "real time"
  3. Negative reveiw bc there's no Linux version
  4. Negative review because we the Terran science advisor is African.

Etc.

It's really hard to be < 4/5 positives when it takes so few negative reviews to wreck it.  We appreciate anyone making an honest, fair review of the game (even if it is negative).

Reply #55 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 54

Another reason we need your help is that often times, people use the reviews to punish the game for things that have nothing to do with the game itself or other (imo) unreasonable objectives such as:

 

    1. Negative review because they're having trouble with it on the Windows 10 beta (we don't support Windows 10)

 

    1. negative review becauuse it should be "real time"

 

    1. Negative reveiw bc there's no Linux version

 

    1. Negative review because we the Terran science advisor is African.

 


Etc.

It's really hard to be < 4/5 positives when it takes so few negative reviews to wreck it.  We appreciate anyone making an honest, fair review of the game (even if it is negative).

 

I totally agree that it's worth while encouraging people to make reviews. Like most things on the internet there can be quite a negativity bias, those enjoying the game quietly can be soon drowned out by a minority shouting negatives. Encouraging simply more reviews to combat this is fair and the right move.

Reply #56 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Are you serious with #4? Review like that should ban the accounts forever. -.-
The others are bad, too. I hope there won't be much of them.

Reply #57 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It is ludicrous to give a negative review for any of those reasons Frogboy mentioned, does sound like steam reviews can be influenced by many really nonsensical things.

Reply #58 from Stardock Forums Top

Generally speaking, people are more likely to give a negative review than a positive review.  

Hopefully with 1.01 out, we can get some people to reasse if they had downvoted the game over some bug.