{"id":404290,"date":"2010-03-08T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100308\/1041228463.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:20:58","slug":"is-amazon-blocking-reviews-of-assassins-creed-over-drm-issues-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404290","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon Blocking Reviews Of Assassin’s Creed Over DRM Issues? [Update]"},"content":{"rendered":"

See update below<\/b>. Well, well, well. You may recall back in 2008, when EA used annoying DRM on Spore<\/i>, consumers revolted by giving the game one-star reviews<\/a> on Amazon. There was some controversy when Amazon deleted<\/a> some of those reviews — but it claimed it was just a glitch (the algorithm treated so many rapid one-star reviews as an attack of some kind). However, it’s now become quite popular when someone selling books or games does something stupid, for people take to Amazon to express<\/a> their displeasure in one-star reviews.<\/p>\n

So what’s happening with Assassin’s Creed 2 — the Ubisoft game that is using incredibly annoying DRM<\/a> and has had trouble keeping its servers up<\/a>. Well… reader Aaron points out that for the PC version of the game Amazon appears to be showing no reviews at all<\/b><\/a>. Either it deleted them or has proactively blocked the reviews. Of course, the reviews somehow are<\/i> magically working for the PlayStation3 and Xbox versions of the game… Funny how that works.
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\nUpdate<\/b>: Some are pointing out that since the PC version isn’t officially released until tomorrow, that could explain the lack of reviews on Amazon. They also note that elsewhere, such as in the UK, there are numerous angry one-star reviews…<\/p>\n

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