If you were to do a quick search online for Rock Band 4 reviews, you will notice that the game has received plenty of favorable ones. This is despite the fact that games like this were thought of to be no longer in fashion, but it turns out that everyone still loves rocking out every now and then.
That being said, this is why many have found it odd that Harmonix’s employees have been caught posting positive reviews of the game on Amazon. Safe to say that their reviews would be a little biased since they created it, and Harmonix has since come forward to acknowledge that those were their employees, but they were not instructed to do so.
In a statement released by the developer, “Harmonix has clarified its internal policy about posting reviews of our own products on retail sites, and we’ve asked that existing reviews be edited to identify Harmonix employees or be removed entirely. While we believe the reviews posted by a few employees were sincere and without ill intentions, as a studio we don’t believe these are appropriate actions. We appreciate the feedback from the community, and take our relationship with our fans seriously.”
As Harmonix has stated, these posts were done with ill-intentions. Perhaps these employees were just very excited about the game and really believed it to be deserving of high praise, but like we said it does create a sense of bias. Some of the reviews have since been deleted, but there are some that have been updated to better reflect the transparency of the reviewer.
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