[biot]

Something I've been wondering about is why Angry Birds has under 100 reviews while Smurfs Village has over 1200, many of which are nonsense like one which was a 5-star review that said only "ok". I know some apps do a better job at encouraging reviews, but the sheer volume and garbage quality of many of the reviews makes me wonder if they're offering in-game rewards as payment.

[aresant]

Rovio just released another update, app store defaults to show reviews only for the most current version.

[biot]

Yes, this is correct. I just checked and Angry Birds has 267,000 reviews across all versions. It's just surprising the number of reviews for Smurfs Village: 71,000 in total for a game that is 4 months old as of today. Maybe this just highlights my inability to understand the appeal of click-wait-repeat style of games.

[derefr]

> many of which are nonsense like one which was a 5-star review that said only "ok"

I recently got notified by the iPhone Things app with a message along the lines of "most people only rate the app when they delete it. If you're using Things, why not rate it right now?" and a button to go directly to the review page. I had no idea until I had clicked through that a textbox would be involved; I was expecting to just click on some stars and go back to my app.