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Old 06-29-2009, 11:46 AM   #6 (permalink)
Danieljohn
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Originally Posted by mpatric View Post
Many reasons:

All the 19+ 'reviewers' have reviewed all of his 9 apps, giving 5 stars each time.

If you look at the reviews across the apps, phrases are repeated.

I downloaded iOthello - it's terrible - nobody would give this 5 stars. The other apps look just as bad.

One of the reviews stated it was 'the best reversi game around' - only it was a review for one of his other apps.. I think he typed in so many he confused himself.

Not content with fooling the masses with iOthello, he released it as 'Reversi Extended' too, which is exactly the same game, just with a different name and icon.

I could go on..


Yikes, that's pretty brutal. Sounds like it's crappy enough to where he will lose money, so I would expect that to happen. I think that there is a large majority of users that avoid reviews and just go off of their gut feeling from pictures. The reason I think that, is because I always see an app that looks like it could be good, and remarkably it has 400+ 1-star ratings. Which means that there were tons of people who saw the bad rating and still purchased the app.

But anyways, yeah that sucks, I don't think there's any way to report that.
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