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.
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.
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?
Yep, seems like it. Another shitty thing by Google. So I’m not seeing an average of 2M reviews, the fucking count that’s placed just below the score, purposefully to mislead me, but god knows how many hundreds of reviews of the same old phone model that I use. And who knows how “recent” or how broad that “region” is.
Have to say I don’t see why this is a bad thing. You don’t want your impression of an app misled by 5 million Indians saying “The Hindi translation is garbage 🤬”. Or if you’re downloading an ebook reader on a tablet, you don’t want reviews from smartphone users saying “The mobile version is unusable, the buttons are too small!”
That is such a Google design decision. So pointlessly stupid indeed.
Yes, google only shows localized review scores.
it’s possible you’re only seeing the reviews from your region
Quite possible. Google is indeed clearly massaging the result, most likely according to location. I get a 3.6 score here at the time of this post.
It has a 3.4 rating when I look at it.
I think it depends on the region (and possibly type of device?)