Dev Shenanigans: ZULA Offers Rewards For Positive Reviews


ZULA is described as an MMO FPS developed out of Istanbul by Lokum Games and available on Steam (your mileage may vary). The game has a lot of positive reviews, and if you look closely you’ll see players posting their usernames in the reviews for all to see. This is important, as the reason for posting such information is that Lokum is promising rewards in return for positive reviews.

The notice as posted on the main website (roughly translated into English by Google) promises a 3-day AWP sniper rifle as well as an entry for an even better gift in return for positively reviewing the game and marking said review as useful.

Here’s what you need to do to participate in the event.  We ask you to write a nice review article on your game in the store section  on Steam, and to recommend the game and mark it as useful. Also, do not neglect to write your in-game character name when writing a comment, because we have a wonderful surprise to support our players!

We present a 3 day AWP Samba to each participating actor . In addition, we will give a 30 day Cheytac Y?ld?r?m gift to our 3 players with the draw to be made at the end of 1 month . Event participation prizes will be sent every 3 days.

As an aside, if you don’t live in Turkey or have a way of falsifying your location, don’t bother clicking that Steam link, the URL will present as invalid and you’ll receive an error saying that the store page isn’t available in your region.

Offering rewards in return for positive reviews is against Steam’s Code of Conduct for sellers. It can and has resulted in games being pulled from the Steam store. Whether or not Valve will take action in this case will have to be seen.

(Source: ZULA)