The studio behind the lately launched Starsand Island has taken the bizarre step of calling out individuals ‘praise-bombing’ its recreation.
The anime-inspired cosy life sim was launched in Steam Early Entry and on Xbox Preview on February 11, and can also be accessible on Xbox Recreation Move.
Nevertheless, Chinese language developer Seed Sparkle Lab has posted an replace on the sport’s Steam web page questioning the optimistic response it’s been getting.
“We now have lately seen numerous overly optimistic ‘reward’ feedback about our recreation showing throughout varied social platforms,” the studio wrote.
“At first, we believed this meant our recreation was being acknowledged and appreciated. Nevertheless, we quickly seen one thing uncommon on Steam: some feedback had been posted after very quick playtime, had been launched at practically the identical time (gave the impression to be AI-generated).
“This made us understand that one thing may not be proper. Is that this some form of overpraise as an assault? We now have no concrete proof, nevertheless it does really feel as if somebody could also be doing this deliberately.
“What makes it much more puzzling is that this strategy shouldn’t be low-cost, since leaving a assessment requires buying the sport (we later found that a few of these accounts refunded the sport after posting their evaluations).”
The studio’s message to the potential reward prankers is an easy one – cease doing it, and allow them to think about making the sport as an alternative of making an attempt to determine what’s happening.
“We wish to say this clearly: making a indie recreation shouldn’t be simple,” the studio mentioned. “We merely need to give attention to constructing a great product and giving the gamers who actually like our recreation a greater expertise.
“So, to whoever could also be behind this, please cease. Please allow us to give attention to making our recreation in peace. We pose no menace to anybody.”
Starsand Island’s Early Entry interval is getting used to finalise the sport’s content material and “finesse the end-game expertise for gamers”, earlier than its full launch this summer season on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Change 2 and PC.
Whereas the Early Entry model of Starsand Island is single-player solely, when the complete recreation is launched this summer season it is going to be accompanied by a brand new multiplayer mode.
