Agreed. Also, if there is a problem, it would have been prudent to revert the change or disable reviewing entirely, until they fix it. Rather than starting a fire then letting it burn over the weekend ...

Lol ...

Why only BG 3 though? I checked few other presumably played by a lot of users games like Cyberpunk and there's nowhere near that huge influx of reviews.

Maybe they're reviews from the Darkside, where these are actually meaningful and deep?

Lmao, what a mess.

If an app/program forced/tried forcing me to review it or something on it, i'd seriously consider axing it and using something else.

its just Gog fucking around with their new " features"... the update/ fix come out today which you guesed it [does NOT work]

The really bad news is that it's not an isolated Baldur's Gate 3 issues. Of late, I've found various game pages with that kind of comments (I can't call them reviews).

THE GUNK ( https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_gunk ) also has one line, innocuous, uninformative one line comments from verified owners of the game, with names made of random letters and numbers. And most are from the past 4 or 5 days (today is 1, January, 2025).

No idea what's catalyzing this wave, but it is super not healthy for the review section and there doesn't seem to be any way to efficiently report them for what they are, without using the report button on each (which is mostly for racist comments or other similar transgressions).

The Gunk was one of the games given away free through Amazon's Prime Gaming so it makes sense it's getting inundated with new reviews. It's still annoying to get promoted to give a game review after playing a game through Galaxy. Gog should just scrap the prompt entirely as it helps no one.

But somehow it's the easily filtered out non-owners reviews that are the end of the world problem to some :D

It's the annoying pop-up "please review this" prompt in Galaxy that they implemented some months ago, which shows up constantly once you pass a certain play time. A lot of people just give a rating and write whatever to make it go away, which is why there was a sudden flood of these "reviews".

If this is a Galaxy thing, well, add it to the list of needless frustrations that Galaxy has caused. No one will ever be able to convince me that the optional client isn't more trouble than its worth.

This spam of useless new "reviews" from Galaxy users is only one of the problems. The whole review and rating system is broken, at least for browser users. When you rate a game and then reload the page, the rating is gone. I don't know if the rating is not stored or if it's just not displayed anymore. The same happens for the rating of the reviews (helpful yes/no). Not sure if the reporting mechanism for the reviews still works. Also my older game and review ratings, which were shown before, are not shown anymore. Either they are lost or they are only not displayed anymore. They are "checking it"...

I wonder if one of their managers has a bug/brainworm that said "we need metrics!" even though attempting to meet those metrics would be impossible or damning. (GOG's internal development does follow AGILE, I understand.)

Or if some engineer/sysop was ask to justify their job/role so they "created" some work.

Perhaps some braindead pubdev demanded to see some number of interactions and GOG is having to fudge the numbers by any statistic?

Edit: I was reading one of the job offerings, and here's a fun excerpt. This is for an engineering job. The only metric an engineer should be left with is "is it working"?

Metrics ... numbers, which do not tell much about quality. ;) No wonder GOG's priorities more and more have shifted from quality to quantity. "Let's generate more reviews!" - no matter if they are useful for the customers.

Unfortunately it's not only the reviews, where quality has been given up in favor of quantity, but also the games (Whale Rock Games anyone?), the sales (more sales, up to 12 in parallel, partially redundant and often repeating the same discounts, again and again), more user tracking and still useless game recommendations (yes GOG, I indeed like most of the games I already own, but I do not want to buy them again ;P), annoying push advertisements, a catalog search which often delivers tons of results, making it hard to find what you actually were looking for, and probably more annoyances which just do not come to my mind now ...