Re: Steam's Revising Reviews

On 16/08/2024 16:37, Justisaur wrote:

On 8/16/2024 1:38 AM, JAB wrote:

On 16/08/2024 02:34, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 

As for unhelpful reviews, here's a good example "I was expecting more. It gets boring and repetitive very quickly. I lost interest after playing it for 2 hours..." Why bother writing that, how does it help anyone decide whether they should buy the game. I'll gladly see the back of them.

 That's not unhelpful.  If it gets repetitive and boring in 2 hours, that's very helpful information.
 

The problem I have with a review like that is it doesn't say anything beyond random person on Steam found the game boring. That doesn't tell me anything about whether I find it boring.

That's the concern I have.
 It's more a concern that 'unhelpful' is based on what people are tagging 'unhelpful' (basically a like/dislike button.) which will mean review bombers are going to start down-voting any positive reviews, and fans any negative.
 

Yeh, hopefully Valve have thought about how they're going to ensure the system won't be abused and maybe they can even apply a similar policy to their discussion groups with people jumping on the band wagon because of some video that YouTube served to them.