The controversy has accompanied ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ even before the premiere due to the review bombing suffered by the Prime Video series. The company already had a way to try to fight dishonest criticism, but the truth is that the average rating of the series did not exceed three stars by much. That is why the hare has jumped when suddenly it has gone on to have four and a half stars of note in a movement with which Amazon has ended up backing down.
a strange move
The thing has been this simple: multitude of reviews of ‘The Lord of the rings: The rings of power’ had disappeared, most of them being 1 star. To get an idea, these ratings have gone from representing 30% of those received by the series to just 3%, with evidence of this.
Some celebrated this movement, but the truth is that criticism has rained down on Amazon for doing so, which has led to practically returning everything to the state it was in before. Right now the 1-star reviews represent 29% of the total and the average rating is just 3.3 stars.
To put it in total numbers, ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ reached a verified minimum of 5,105 reviews just a few hours after the purge was carried out, while now the figure reaches 16,490. It is clear that not all the missing ratings can be 1 star (that 30% of 16,490 does not reach 5,000 and the difference is more than 10,000), but that does not mean that the notable increase in the average rating has aroused suspicion.
Amazon hasn’t said anything about it.who can always adduce some type of error linked to the new system implemented when approving user ratings, but there are not a few who have already complained about what they consider to be a manipulation exercise to improve the image conveyed by the Serie.
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