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Xbox Live Indie Games Rating Manipulation

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 4, 2011 @07:55PM 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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The solution by sapphire+wyvern · 2011-04-04 20:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

MS should scrap the web front end for submitting game ratings.
Instead, it should only be possible to submit a game rating from the XBox itself, using an account that's unlocked at least one achievement from the game.
Since the XBLIG games are only accessible to people with an internet-enabled XBox and a Live account, that shouldn't disenfranchise anyone who's actually got a relevant opinion.