Purpose: stop the review bombing; Epic Games Store launches and explains its own unique rating system

The store continues to roll out changes and also add surveys to help purchase new games.

Announced for months and remembered last April, the Epic Games Store has finally introduced a rating system so that every user can rate the video games they download through the Fortnite main trade. This innovation is accompanied by a curious survey program.

Starting with the first, the Epic Games Store ratings will ask anyone who’s played an adventure for more than two hours to rate their experience from 1 to 5. “This is what happens: After a game session, player (randomly selected) You will be offered the opportunity to rate the title with a maximum of five stars. Over time, these ratings will help us define the “overall rating” that will appear on the product page in the store,” the company explains.

This way, all players will be able to evaluate not their gaming experience, but rather a non-detailed public example. It doesn’t seem very plausible when explained that way, but they justify their bets from the Epic Games Store. protect titles from malicious reviews – what’s popularly known as ‘review bombing’, which ensures that those who value them actually try them.

The other innovation is responding on behalf of Surveys. This is once again a trading feature to survey randomly selected players with direct answers to their gaming experience based on a wide variety of questions. These questions are, “Is this a good game to play in a group?” “How hard are the bosses in this game?” Depending on what is flagged, some video games will have different tags. For example, God of War stands out for its boss battles and Dead by Daylight is ideal for quick games.

Now we have to wait to see its success. The review bombing has worried major review portals for several years and required Steam or Metacritic to take different measures to combat it in the past, but it was perhaps not entirely well received, depriving the majority of the public from giving insight into their purchases.