Reddit has started posting purchased 5 star reviews on Apple Store, wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing on Android as well. This is illegal and you can voice your dissatisfaction with the FTC at the provided link.
If they’re trying to do it in the Google Play Store, it isn’t working. I’ve never seen so many detailed, comprehensive 1 & 2 star reviews for any app. You just scroll and scroll and it’s nothing but people describing in great detail what a turd the app is.
Seems to be all from people who decided to try the official app when spez pulled this crap and discovered that there was a reason no one used it.
I’m glad they’re not doing it there… the Apple Store has a bunch with nonsense one line sentences with no grammar or punctuation. One of them even references a different app.
The rating has dropped from 3.5 stars yesterday to 2.5 stars today, and that’s probably still dropping. Lots of paragraph long, detailed reviews.
I’ve heard this before, but a few days ago I saw it was at 4.2 and today is at 4.0 on Google Play. Am I seeing a different rating than everyone else? I don’t get it.
Strange, that’s definitely different from what I’m seeing, I’m not sure why that could be. Google might only show localised review scores?
The same should be done for IMDB if anyone can be bothered. I see so much of this for shitty Netflix series. ‘The first episodes kind of suck but it gets better.’ 10/10
-_-
Protip: any TV shows with a boring 1st episode is only going to get worse
I disagree. Star Trek: The Next Generation takes almost 2 seasons to get good. Perhaps TNG is an exception though, not the rule.
Idk, I just checked the App Store and if you sort reviews as most recent they are almost all 1 star
I like jumping on the bandwagon as much as the next guy, but do you have any evidence of these accusations?
Only the evidence I put in my comments, all of the recent 5 star reviews have no constructive information in them other than a few random words.
They look really suspicious and the FTC would be able to verify their authenticity.
I would agree with you except the actual reviews look really suspicious. They come in blocks of 2-3 next to each other and they are all nonsense. And there’s a fair amount of them.
If this were a highly regarded, honest company I would give them the benefit of the doubt. Having seen numerous examples of their dishonesty in the past month I would say this is par for course.
I’ve seen a few of what they’re talking about. Sometimes there’ll be a couple random words that make no sense together at all. Or incomplete thoughts.
One of the most recent in the App Store:
Title: I’m going back to work on my Contents: We will have the opportunity
It’s weird.
I put a link below but here is another to a screenshot I took. https://imgur.com/a/QDDcxk8
If you go on the play store and look at the 5 star reviews vs. 1 star reviews, is does look a little suspect.
All the 1 star reviews are almost at the character limit, describing in detail why they gave it 1 star.
At least half the 5 star reviews are one sentence reviews like “interesting content”, “Works great! Thanks!!”, “Its good”, “I love it!”, and “veri gud ep” (sic).
Damn how many laws has spez broken now? Anyone keeping track?
He’s not even rich AF. I mean, he’s definitely richer than I am, but he’s not Bezos-level rich. He sold out his one good creation, had thousands of people doing millions of dollars of free work for him, is a tech CEO, and betrayed the people who believed in him, just to become moderately wealthy. Sad!
And you just know this shit is going to follow him for life. Rich people tend to be smart and have long memories.
Can you imagine walking into Cannes and all of the other rich people point, look, and laugh under their breath?
Or walking past /spez’s 45” Bayliner sniggering about how he thinks he’s made it with his ‘yacht’.
If the pitchforks ever come out I would hate to be in his shoes.
