And what possible motivation would they have to post a review on Amazon for a product they don't own? If you think it's happening just so the anti's could drag it down into the mud then you need to make yourself a tinfoil hat to keep the government mind control from taking over your brain.

The same reason they post here and don't. You seem kinda new but as usual I doubt it - don't take offense if you really are new. Take it as a badge of honor.

Looking at the reviews it looks like it has 6 people that gave it a perfect 5 stars and 5 people giving it 4 stars. That shows you how ridiculous the user review system is. COD might evolve to 5 star quality in a decade or so, but right now it is 2.5 to 3 stars at best.

how does that make a 'user' review system ridiculous?

it's entirely up to users how many stars they want to give, if a user gives 5 then that user feels it deserves it......otherwise it would be called the Force10 review system

imo 2 stars max currently. It would be 1 star if I included dev-community communications/promises/rip off factor.

Ouch! That stings...but I will take shot at explaining. If you look closely, you will see all 6 5 star reviews are dated yesterday and today, oddly the same time this thread was posted. They are not actually reviewing the game on it's merits, it's basically an attempt to sucker our fellow gamers into buying something under false pretenses. They are just toting the developer party line and throwing fellow simmers under the bus. I guess I will have to give it a 1 star review to give some balance back to this charade.

Here is a review from today that sums things up:


"Beware the newest reviews for this produce claiming all has been fixed by patches. The "next patch" was supposedly in "final testing stages" according to the head dev Luthier well over 6 MONTHS AGO and still isn't released.

These new 5 star reviews are a sham that originated at the 1C forums to bring up the average and trick customers into believing the game is fixed. For proof see the following link..."

I have highlighted in bold a part that is a fiction, this is really just a case of the exact same thing you are claiming but used for malice, I noticed the apparent link to proof is missing too

Sure are obsessed over good P.R. this is prima facie evidence that there is an axe to grind.

While we are on the subject of toting the party line what about Rudolf Hess?? He tossed everyone under a double-decker bus. http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpp3171...phy-poster.jpg