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Reviews can be used to manipulate persons opinions and induce biases about any work, for both good and evil purposes. I believe this decision was to avoid letting someone make use of "mob mentality" against developers.

I personally prefer it this way, since who benefits most from reviews are the developers themselves.

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Can't that just be exploited using the comments system anyway, though?

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At some extent, yes. But the reviews also score the game and the chances of it to appear in the store recomendations. If a lot of persons decide to give a 1/5 star score to said game, not because the game is bad, but because of personal purposes, the developer surely will suffer from it.

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But you can still do that anyway. How does hiding the text of reviews prevent review-bombing?

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You have a good point. It won't prevent at all.

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I agree with A.L. Neto. I too prefer it as it is now.

Yeah, but that's not a problem with reviews, that's a problem with human communication.  If the aim is to prevent cancel mobs, this is the equivalent of building a gate with no fence - and not even in the specific spot where you would need a full gate+fence, but in the middle of a completely unrelated street in the next town over.