Game Review Spam. Review needs a time played before reviewing

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

0.1 to 0.3 for 90% of games being reviewed is just stupid and largely unhelpful.

Games should require 1 hour minimum (personally id say 2) before a review can be posted.


All reviews under 1 hours should be held for review by a moderator.

I dont watch youtube videos because nobody on youtube makes a short 3 minute spoiler free video. They are all 15 minute long spoiler full and ramble about

So I often look for text based reviews. But so many reviews are absolute trash these days.

It has cats!
You can swing on a web!

Keep them coming sony?


I mean these are not helpful and all are from 0.2 hour or less viewers.


I know nothing is gonna change, but I felt like ranting my opinion. Sue me.

[KalGimpa]

no thank you.

i have a game that i could not get passed the first half hour, it was soooooo boring. i will not slog through another just to reach an arbitrary limit.

a filter for time played would be nice, if it does not exist already

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Origineel geplaatst door kalcuey-freehk:

no thank you.

i have a game that i could not get passed the first half hour, it was soooooo boring. i will not slog through another just to reach an arbitrary limit.

a filter for time played would be nice, if it does not exist already

I went and checked and seems there is a filter now, I never noticed it before. And I can 100% agree, but so many reviews are just utterly useless and serve no purpose. Like your review.


game is boring, not happy yadda yadda yadda less than an hour played, held for review, mod sees it, approves. But I set the filter to 1 hour to remove the spam.


Take some points for informing me. ty

[nullable]

So are you worried that other people don't understand how time works? Or that they're so unfamiliar with games they don't understand 0.1 hours isn't a long time to vet a game? Or that release day user reviews might be a bit premature?

Maybe we've survived in gaming somehow, for decades, without needing to micromanage user reviews. So what's the fuss today? Spider-man? We'll all survive Spider-man's release. Not to mention the game is already years old, we already know everything about the game.

[J4MESOX4D]

Just downvote any reviews that are unhelpful. There's plenty of terrible ones with playtime on record too.

Moderators aren't going to waste significant time 'clearing' reviews for publication and this would also cause censorship concerns.

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Origineel geplaatst door Snakub Plissken:

So are you worried that other people don't understand how time works? Or that they're so unfamiliar with games they don't understand 0.1 hours isn't a long time to vet a game? Or that release day user reviews might be a bit premature?

Maybe we've survived in gaming somehow, for decades, without needing to micromanage user reviews. So what's the fuss today? Spider-man? We'll all survive Spider-man's release. Not to mention the game is already years old, we already know everything about the game.

No, the fuss is about games in general, I just used a current game as a reference. I was not aware that they added a slider to adjust game time played.


Just when I look at reviews to see what people say and the next 50 reviews are

its gud

buy sony

give us god war

or for the cat game last month

has cat

no need to neuter etc ect


I am looking for reviews that state how it runs, I think reviews more along the lines of an actual review, not some place to post random asii art as a way to farm reactions. But I mean hey, I am older, so maybe this is how people review things today.


Ans spiderman is a year old? Was it an epic exclusive? I have legit never watched a single youtube video on the game. I never watched a video on Elden Ring or Outriders, loved both.


Watched a review for Days gone, seen way too many spoilers, but got it and it was good. I more or less look to see if reviews point out any issues that would make me hold off or instantly want to buy. That is all.

[nullable]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you imagine user reviews from 2002 were part of some kinda of renaissance of gaming, well, you might have a bit too much rose tint in your glasses.

Users have always been like this, getting older and becoming cranky towards constant antics is something I can empathize with. But in that case it's you who's changed, not everyone else.

Origineel geplaatst door ToothlessRaider:

Ans spiderman is a year old?

Years, plural. It's a four year old PS4 game.

Yes, the specifics of how good the PC port runs is important sure. But reviews aren't confined to that detail. And outside of that, we (gamers) know a lot about a very popular game on a very popular console. There's plenty of information about the gameplay, content, etc.

[RTX 5080 FE(Mr Happy)]

Origineel geplaatst door Snakub Plissken:

The more things change, the more they stay the same. If you imagine user reviews from 2002 were part of some kinda of renaissance of gaming, well, you might have a bit too much rose tint in your glasses.

Users have always been like this, getting older and becoming cranky towards constant antics is something I can empathize with. But in that case it's you who's changed, not everyone else.

Ok Kurt Russel, you got me there. I like the round about way you called me a grumpy old man, have some points :)

[I've ran out of profile ideas h]

Origineel geplaatst door ToothlessRaider:

Ans spiderman is a year old? Was it an epic exclusive? I have legit never watched a single youtube video on the game. I never watched a video on Elden Ring or Outriders, loved both.

Spiderman used to be exclusive to the PlayStation consoles for 4 years until the 2022 PC release.

However in terms of the actual topic while some ways to view less memey reviews would be nice, putting them under review of a moderator would be pretty much infeasible due to the high amount of them.

[nullable]

It takes one to know one

[Crazy Tiger]

Origineel geplaatst door kalcuey-freehk:

a filter for time played would be nice, if it does not exist already

It exists: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2667102909

Origineel geplaatst door ToothlessRaider:

I think reviews more along the lines of an actual review

While I agree those are the most useful, you might want to manage your expectations better. They're user reviews, after all, and lots of users aren't prolific writers nor are they interested in it. And on Steam I'd say the most important factor is the thumbs up/down one gives, not the additional text.

[K13Cove]

Some noticed that "meme reviews" (often contextless, contentless and focused on being "funny" rather than useful) are extremely popular, and receive plenty of awards and ratings. Because of this, they try and emulate it with reviews consisting of a single word unrelated to the game.

Personally, I don't care too much about it since I try and research game reception before buying from people who aren't mentally stunted on other websites, but that obviously doesn't help the Steam Reviews here. The best thing you can do is give positive ratings to well-formatted and helpful reviews instead.

[dorkenstein]

I agree 5 minutes is too short but 1-2 hours is too much. If a game isn't good after 20 minutes then it's not going to be worth playing.

[Paratech2008]

Some people have games crash to desktop right at the beginning of the game, typically due to software or hardware compatibility issues.

It's nice to know of such issues before buying it if customers have similar hardware or software.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Origineel geplaatst door Paratech2008:

Some people have games crash to desktop right at the beginning of the game, typically due to software or hardware compatibility issues.

It's nice to know of such issues before buying it if customers have similar hardware or software.

Yep, happens occasionally to me. In fact, happened several times to me when playing maneater. I posted that in my review and how a possible workaround for it is. If it happens more than 5 times in a game, i usually give it a negative review:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198013723081/recommended/629820/