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Xbox Live Indie Games Rating Manipulation

Posted by Soulskill on from the hey-microsoft-want-to-buy-a-metamod-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft seems to be turning a blind eye to the Xbox Live Indie game area. Certain indie developers have found a way to abuse the independent game ranking system in order to down-vote popular indie titles while up-voting their own. Due to this, games are falling out of the valuable top 20 slot and the value of the ranking system is jeopardized."

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  1. Re:Sad but thats what marketing is for by Moryath · · Score: 3, Informative

    Castle Crashers was one of the first Xbox Live Arcade games

    Uhm... say what now?

    Xbox360: released November 22, 2005.

    Castle Crashers: released August 27, 2008.

    Almost THREE YEARS of Xbox Live Arcade games separates the two.

    This has been a message from reality. As an additional message: please stop smoking crack.