EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole 367
fplatten writes "I would definitely call this unethical manipulation of the ratings system: the Worst Company in America, EA is routing all ratings made in game of 1 to 4 stars as an email that is sent to EA, but all 5 star ratings are routed to the Google Play store, where its rating is currently 4.3 out of 5."
No rating API (Score:5, Informative)
Why on earth is google allowing anyone to submit ratings via any API
It's not. From the article:
In other words, the 5 Stars button goes to the app's page in Google Play Store, and the 1-4 Stars button goes to the "leave feedback" screen. A player can leave a lower rating by tapping 5 Stars, waiting for the Play page to open, and tapping a lower star rating.
Re:Extra apostrophes (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What is this post about? (Score:4, Informative)
If you rate this game within the game, EA gets it and has to forward it on to Google play store. If the rating is 1-4 EA doesn't forward it on to the Play store, but if it is a 5 they do forward on the rating. Its apparantly a bad game, but because of this trick it is still rated a 4.5, which is possible by people rating it lower directly on Google Play where EA can't prevent it from going on.
At least that is what I am getting from reading it.
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:2, Informative)
I've been moderating them off-topic, and I'm no admin. We were supposed to have a day of protest, then there was the boycott I think for next week. There is zero point in continuing this childish nonsense.
Yay, sticking it to the man, we feel awesome about ourselves, now start acting like people care about the community instead of pissing on it.
Re:Right: Beat them @ their OWN game (Score:5, Informative)
Guess either you aren't the real apk, or you indeed have the poor technical understanding you seem infamous for.
for the record, slashdot sets a cookie. it's called betagroup. It appears to contain an integer value between 0 and 99. The poor souls where this number is sufficiently small (ATM <20) get redirected to beta. The others do not.
In case the solution has not become obvious yet modify that cookie [mozilla.org].
-- "But I use chrome, you insensitive clod!"
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:4, Informative)
... the anti Beta posts are ruining this site more then that is.
That is the point. The majority of slashdot regulars DO NOT LIKE, NOR WANT BETA. The hope is that if by raising a stink, the powers that be will nix beta. You say you are here for the comments, but beta's comment system is seriously broken. What you come here for, what we all come here for, may no longer exist if beta gets implemented. Check your comments page [slashdot.org] and tell me how your comment was moderated, or how many people replied to it. Quote this text in a reply. Post anonymously. Can't be done in beta. Can't be Slashdot without it.
EA has apparently 'replied' w/ Official Statement (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2451671,00.asp
such BS...