2w ago

Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

In todays episode of "Plex enshittifies" Plex employee breaks ToS.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736

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From the forum post:
Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.
Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.
Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn't doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they're just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company's product
- While I don’t think it’s a great look, employees can be customers/users too. I can’t imagine a Plex employee wouldn’t actually use Plex either. They should have disclosed that they’re an employee in the review.
  
  Yes, but since he is working on the product itself, it's heavily biased.
  He can use the app without leaving a review.
- The download functionality also has been broken for a while and not working for lots of users, even LTT made a video about it, so even if we give the benefit of the doubt that he is merely doing a "works on my machine" thing it's not a great look
- I bet someone got it in their head that slow reviews were the reason the company wasn’t meeting a goal, and they asked everyone to contribute.
- I haven't reviewed any of the games I'm in the credits for. Mostly cause I haven't played or owned them.
  
  Somewhat related, I recall Michael Bell talking about his experience with Soul Reaver, shortly after release. The voice of Raziel couldn't get past the jump part of the tutorial and just gave up

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