I agree with Robert. I really hope Google will take a serious look at this as it undermines the trust of the rankings and ratings associated with any app in the market.
It bothers me that the spamming seems to have started more than 10 days ago, and nothing has been done. PE is now the number 9 ranked game in the market. This just shouldn't have happened, but it did. Can anyone at Google that can speak to this please do so? Regards, - Mike On Apr 26, 1:19 pm, Robert Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, just like how telling people to click on your ads is against the > ToS, I believe that telling users to give you a 5 star rating for any > reason should also be. > > On Apr 26, 12:57 pm, Ralf Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I installed the game. After installation there was a text box "suggesting" > > to give 5 stars for the game to be the first game to have a 5 star rating. > > I gave 1 star. I don't like to be "manipulated" to giva a good rating. > > Uninstalled it. > > > 2010/4/26 Mike <[email protected]> > > > > Hey Zero, > > > > Any idea on how Pocket Empires has managed to go from a zero in the > > > rankings to number 25 in less than a few weeks? Seems a little > > > questionable to me based on the amount of spam being left on all of > > > the other top 50 apps and games promoting your game. More > > > questionable still is the near constant amount of positive 5 star > > > feedback being left on Pocket Empires itself with nearly the same > > > content. I'll stop short of accusing the own Pocket Empires team of > > > purposely manipulating the Android market ratings system in order to > > > promote the game, but it seems very suspicious and, might I say, a bit > > > slimy and underhanded. > > > > - Michael > > > > On Apr 1, 10:03 pm, ZeroCool <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Big thanks to Android Team. > > > > I couldn't have done it without the help of you guys. > > > > If anyone is interested, search 'pocketempires' or 'pe' in Android > > > > Market. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
