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Steam Review manipulation. Image Credit: Very Positive Developer on Twitter A developer who named their company “Very Positive” has been banned from Steam for “review manipulations”. The game, Emoji Evolution was released to Steam in December, a take on the classic Alchemy game where elements are combined to produce a new one. The developer has changed both fields for Developer and Publisher to “Very Positive”, meaning at a glance these appear to be the aggregate score for the game. The actual review aggregate remains at “Mostly Positive”, a rating which implie...

Booted for "review manipulations". Updated on 17 February 2021 A developer has been booted off Steam after brazenly attempting to trick users into buying its games by naming its company Very Positive. You can probably see where this is going already, but look at a game's Steam page and you'll see several prominent fields in the info panel to the right. A game's customer rating, displayed in bright blue if positive, is easy to spot at a glance, and it's likely to be the first place many Steam users look when opening a page. Crucially for this story, howeve...