LOL the recent most-helpful Steam reviews all flipped to positive in one day

So I was checking out MOO:CTS's reviews on Saturday, on the game's Store page, August 13th, 2016, and noticed most of the top recent reviews were negative, which wasn't a surprise. Then today I checked again this late Sunday evening and found on the Store page the most-helpful recent reviews were all positive!



Further, all these positive reviews had almost 50 users voting the reviews were helpful 89% or higher! You didn't see that level of participation with the prior negative reviews.



How does that happen in one day? Is it possible for the Steam review system to be manipulated? I noticed one suspicious review was from an Argentinian (from his profile) with the handle Saibot Studios, who was shown to play MOO: CTS for less than an hour. Yet his short review had 59 of 66 people finding Salbot's review helpful.



Here is the full text of Saibot Studio's thorough review.

"Really nice! it's not my kind of game (I didn't actually play the previous releases) but I really got into it :)

Nice graphics, audio and animations. Cool races and characters and pretty solid controls.

Just give it a try!"



Does that look like a "Helpful Review"? If you are the developer I guess the answer is "Yes".



Hey, Orion88: you left a comment in that one review above in question. Do you see anything else odd about this fresh series of positive reviews that were voted up?



One has to admit it's a stroke a good luck that the most recent helpful reviews all go positive right before the game's official release date. What a lucky world we all live in!