I have no opinion on this show, but the cynical side of me says that the majority of watch time comes from the first few days and Amazon doesn't wanna put potential viewers off by negative reviews. If you combine this with the aggressive marketing they do then it's basically a ploy to get people to watch. I get it, they sunk gobs of money into this and want returns, but it does seem like they're trying to trick people into watching.
The moderation of reviews is an obvious conflict of interest but is also a massively hard problem to solve (just look at Steam reviews).
This is a good time to plug a practice I started a while back of only watching things a year or so after they release, it really lets all the positive and negative hype die down so you can get good reviews and opinions. Plus you don't need to wait for episodes to premiere each week.
It’s the Ghostbusters 2016 strategy: blame negative reactions on bigots until everyone gets the chance to see for themselves that your product is trash.
i can't speak to what happened with Ghostbusters 2016 but before watching I checked the metacritic user reviews for LOTR:ROP and there was blatant "review bombing" if that's the right term, where it was so blatantly obvious that a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews were manufactured by one person. (they made the exact same points, and had ~100 users supporting that review, whereas genuine appearing reviews rating 2-8 had at most ~5 users supporting a review)
yeah that's fair. i should have said "a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews i looked at" and even then i admit that there is no perfect way to determine what is and isn't a fake review.
i guess i have very little faith that any platform does any work to combat review bombing so i take a very skeptical look at anything i see. i'd also wish for more powerful user tools to automate some of the things that looked suspicious to me such as filtering the score to exclude new accounts, accounts which have only reviewed one thing, reviews that are just the exact same sentence, reviews which have tons of "helpful" reactions the moment they are posted.
Oh comeon, Ghostbusters 2016 was genuinely bad. It had an incoherent plot that went nowhere.
The first episode of ROP was OK, amazing production value, a laying out of foundation, some nice fight scene. Nothing especially bad nor especially good.
The vitroil against this show is so obviously manufactured.
I enjoyed the 2016 ghostbusters, in particular McKinnon and Hemsworth. I can see someone involved trying to justify the lackluster economic performance.
The moderation of reviews is an obvious conflict of interest but is also a massively hard problem to solve (just look at Steam reviews).
This is a good time to plug a practice I started a while back of only watching things a year or so after they release, it really lets all the positive and negative hype die down so you can get good reviews and opinions. Plus you don't need to wait for episodes to premiere each week.