2023-12-03 12:30:00
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It has now been several weeks since Diablo 4, in addition to being available on Battle.net, is now also available on Steam. A relatively new and unexpected launch by Blizzard, determined to relaunch its game as much as possible for the release of season 2 on October 17. Until then in turmoil at this time after a disastrous season 1, the game had suffered a large number of rather poor evaluations, becoming one of the worst rated games on the platform.
But more recently, as the game regained popularity, Diablo 4 was free on Steam for a week, from November 21 to 28. And during this exact period took place a new big wave of evaluations, but this time very positive. A surge of generosity towards the game which was regaining momentum? Not sure…
Bots to save Diablo 4 rating on Steam
A huge wave of positive reviews with similar opinions and wording appeared in the Diablo 4 notes. Almost all of them were many points in common : an inordinate amount of playing time for an average human being (1600 hours in two weeks), and the same message “- blizzard”.
Since then, many of these reviews have been deleted from the platform, but the author of the post nodlimax shared the account of one of the “users” who left a review. We can actually see this as a recurring pattern for other games, with the same equal and insane playing time, almost 100% guaranteeing its bot status.
The author suspects Blizzard is behind this, but beyond being stupid on their part, it would seem that this is simply not the case.
A simple botting training campaign?
The main reason why this wave of evaluations took place would be linked to the free weekend of course, but especially at the Steam Awards taking place at the same time. One thing all of these reviews had in common was that they came from users who played the game for free, and in no way affect the overall rating and score of the game on the platform.
There is therefore no point in Blizzard throwing away evaluations which will not change anything in the rating of the game. On the other hand, these reviews gave you a badge and Steam XP on the occasion of the Steam Awards. The hypothesis of a more “regular” botting campaign already makes more sense, knowing that according to the author of the Reddit post, all the accounts in question targeted free games, and came from Russia. A company or an individual seeking to sell botting services would therefore simply have used this situation to practice and gain publicity.
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