Of course you can disable comments as a publisher. You can also disable ratings. And you can switch to a topic based comment section. Also, the publisher can delete comments. I have seen malware with enabled comments where the criminals would delete certain comments. Or post fake comments.
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Yes.
With minimum price and with pay what you want. With sale and without sale. If it will make people trust the page, the scammers will try to fake it, so there is no single indicator that vouches for a game's safety. Hmm. Maybe the verification checkmark. But those are very rare. You will see some of those accounts on the top rated pages. But this will only say that the account was verified. It will not guarantee that the account is unhacked.
They are reluctant to enter the fake into a jam. But I have seen that too.
It's a combination of indicators either way.