Authors gaming the review system is nothing new.
Not exact matches
Readers also want to decide for themselves how many stars they're looking for in Kindle rankings, and how many
reviews are enough protection against
gaming the system by an
author or publisher's friends and fellow booksellers.
I still maintain that
authors gaming the system with fake «reader
reviews» is someone trying to con me and other readers out of our money.
Now people are questioning not only the
reviews but how indie
authors are
gaming the system.
Disclosure: The
author of this article was given a code for the game through Evolve PR for the purpose of this
review Publisher: Focus Home Interactive Developer: Tindalos Interactive Platforms: PC Despite its once proud status as a staple of PC
gaming, the Real - Time Strategy genre has seen itself fall out of the limelight in recent years, and has been...
Disclosure: the
author was provided with a
review copy by Wales Interactive Publisher: Green Man
Gaming Publishing Developer: Splendy Games, Wales Interactive Platforms: PlayStation 4 (
review platform), PC, Xbox One The Bunker is a modern FMV game which follows a lonely man living in an underground nuclear bunker in England.
Author's Note: Special thanks to Johnny Wilson, who provided fact checking and filled in some gaps for this installment (and, incidentally, also started my professional writing career back in 1998 by assigning me a Myth II
review in Computer
Gaming World).