I sometimes collect steam reviews using Steam Web API for personal use, and the following code, while having some redundant parts, can collect all reviews for a given game. Lately I have attempted collecting reviews for Apex Legends, however no matter what I do I get 1427 reviews. I have attempted many things such as removing the language filter, changing off topic activity filter, making the end date dynamic, however I cannot seem to collect all reviews.
After the cursor that yields 27 reviews (which is the first time I get anything but 100) next cursor is AoJwq+Kw1PUCf/CWrQI= and it yields 0 reviews and is also returned as the next cursor.
My code is as follows, is there any suggestions so I can collect all reviews, thank you in advance.

import requests
from datetime import datetime
import urllib.parse
import time
 
def fetch_game_reviews(appid, cursor='*', filter='recent', language='english'):
    """
    Fetch game reviews for a specific Steam game.
 
    Parameters:
    - appid: Steam Application ID for the game.
    - cursor: Cursor for pagination. Use '*' for the first page.
    - filter: Type of reviews to fetch ('recent', 'updated', 'all').
    - language: Language of the reviews ('english', 'spanish', etc.).
 
    Returns:
    - JSON response containing game reviews.
    """
    if cursor != '*':
        cursor = urllib.parse.quote(cursor)
    url = f"https://store.steampowered.com/appreviews/{appid}?json=1&cursor={cursor}&filter={filter}&language={language}&num_per_page=100&filter_offtopic_activity=0"
    response = requests.get(url)
    return response.json()
 
def fetch_reviews_until_date(appid, end_date, filter='recent', language='all'):
    """
    Fetch game reviews for a specific Steam game until a specific date.
 
    Parameters:
    - appid: Steam Application ID for the game.
    - end_date: The end date for fetching reviews (YYYY-MM-DD format).
    - filter: Type of reviews to fetch ('recent', 'updated', 'all').
    - language: Language of the reviews ('english', 'spanish', etc.).
 
    Returns:
    - List of all reviews up until the specified end date.
    """
    end_date = datetime.strptime(end_date, '%Y-%m-%d')
    previous_cursor = None
    all_reviews = []
    cursors = []
    cursor = '*'
    while True:
        response = fetch_game_reviews(appid, cursor=cursor, filter=filter, language=language)
        collected_timestamp = int(time.time())
        reviews = response['reviews']
        new_cursor = response.get('cursor')
        cursors.append(new_cursor)
 
        if not reviews or (new_cursor == previous_cursor and cursor != '*'):
            return all_reviews, cursors  
 
        for review in reviews:
            review_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(review['timestamp_created'])
            review['collected'] = collected_timestamp
            review['appid'] = appid
            if review_date < end_date:
                return all_reviews
            all_reviews.append(review)
            print(len(all_reviews))
            print(response['cursor'])
 
        previous_cursor = cursor
        cursor = new_cursor
 
    return all_reviews, cursors
 
reviews, cursors = fetch_reviews_until_date('1172470', '2020-10-01')