Steam Introduces New Off-Topic Reviews Due to Borderlands Series Review Bomb

Steam Introduces New Off-Topic Reviews Due to Borderlands Series Review Bomb
Borderlands 2 is the first game on Steam to make use of the “off-topic reviews” marking. Over 4000 reviews are excluded from the rating calculation. pic.twitter.com/kUMN0Lqdx3
— Steam Database (@SteamDB) April 6, 2019
After the announcement of Borderlands 3, many gamers were excited for the highly-anticipated sequel. However, there were also many gamers who were unhappy as the game will be available exclusively on the Epic Games Store for the first six months of its launch. This resulted in Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel receiving waves of negative reviews out of nowhere.
Due to it spiraling out of control, Steam has implemented a system to try to separate the fair criticism from the criticism that doesn’t revolve around the specific game and Borderlands 2 is the first title to take advantage of it. It is known as the Off-Topic Review system, which is designed to separate the review bomb from actual criticisms toward a particular game. Thus far, there have been over 4,000 reviews that have been moved to this Off-Topic review system, which also excluded it from the overall game rating calculation.
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