(credit: Harmonix)
We're not really sure why people put any trust in user reviews posted by random strangers online. There's just no way of knowing much about the people posting those reviews or what motives might lie behind them. Case in point: the Amazon user reviews for Rock Band 4, which developer Harmonix admits include many positive takes from employees that worked on the game.
The potential connection was first noticed by Redditor Documental38, who found the real names of some pseudonymous Amazon reviewers by clicking through to their Amazon wish lists. A few of the names found by Reddit and sites like Destructoid (some since deleted) matched up with those of Harmonix employees: Project Manager Matthew Nordhaus, consultant Jayne Tan, Senior Designer Chris Foster, Audio QA Tester Richard Cody, Lead Character Artist Shawn Witt, and Legal and Music Coordinator Morgan Milardo. In Milardo's case, the review made the remarkable claim that the game is "a perfect introduction to video games and music-gaming for me."
While that name-matching could have all been a huge coincidence or perhaps a frame-up job by some outside actor, Harmonix owned up to the employee reviews in a statement given to Destructoid:
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