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This isn’t really an issue when your product or name not yet being well-known. But, once you gain more visibility, voting bombing becomes a problem that can easily occur on Itch.io’s rating system. There are plenty of people with enough free time to create fake accounts just to leave one-star reviews on your product, whether they dislike you personally, disagree with the themes in your game, or even if your work touches on political issues.

With the current voting system, anyone can rate your product, even if they haven’t purchased or owned it. I believe that restricting voting rights to verified owners would make the system much fairer. While this might not completely eliminate voting bombing, it would make it significantly harder to carry out.

Although itch.io has an AI Disclosure feature, it does not allow developers to specify in detail how AI was used in their projects, unlike Steam. This creates a psychological effect that feels unfair to developers. For example, if you design your project almost entirely from scratch and only use AI to assist with certain parts, the disclosure should allow you to explain how AI was used.

Right now, itch.io only shows “AI assisted,” and most people who see that will assume the product was made entirely by AI, disregarding all the effort the developer put in.