Yet another example of shady business practices

[Zeke45]

The censorship and lack of transparency in reviews for big-ticket games and/or games tied to big-name publishers.

For example, without being logged in, the War Thunder store page now has only the overall reviews summarized (not the recent reviews). The recent reviews were "overwhelmingly negative" for quite some weeks.

Without logging in, the aforementioned overall reviews are shown as "mostly positive." However, after logging in you can now see the *actual* overall reviews have dropped to "mixed."

Also, in case nobody noticed, they froze the display of reviews for War Thunder when the negative reviews started pouring in, so newer reviews were not displayed on the store page and the same reviews were locked in week after week. (To see newer reviews you had to click the "show all reviews" link and then sort by the more recently posted.)

Steam obviously going to great lengths to bury statistics that don't promote the product.

Not a good look.

[Brian9824]

SlowMango eredeti hozzászólása:

FOXDUDE69 eredeti hozzászólása:

And considering games are composed of multiple aspects, some good, some bad, greatly differing in quality, that question boxes the reviewer into a rating that might not reflect his or hers opinions of a game.

Also, if they are only recommendations, why does steam refer to them as reviews?

Because of the option to type a full review explaining your answer.

FOXDUDE69 eredeti hozzászólása:

And you think this is a positive thing?

Better than the alternative of removing reviews or allowing surges of off topic reviews permanently affect the score.

Yep, i'd rather have the review bombs filtered out, and they give people the option to choose if they want them filtered out or not. I mean much better then other sites that don't give users the tools to decide for themselves.

[✨Hot Soup✨]

OP is mad because he doesn't know how to adjust user preferences.

[Start_Running]

FOXDUDE69 eredeti hozzászólása:

This is the company that filters out reviews they consider to be "review bombing" from the overall rating. They dont even allow 5 star reviews, you either completely hated a game or absolutely adored it, with nothing in between. Nobody should take the Steam review rating seriously.

Wow. I can't imagine living with such binary extremes m8.
I mean You can recommend a game because you like it, with caveat. or you can recommend you don't like because you know most gamers will... and vice versa. But hey you do you. But a casual reading of reviews kinda shows that most reviewers do not suffer from this limitation. No shjortage of recommendations with caveats, and non recommendations that list some positives.

Nx Machina eredeti hozzászólása:

As for 5 star:

5 star - must buy. Recommended.

4 star - nearly a 5 star, buy. Recommended.

3 star - avoid. Not recommended. Gameplay lacking.

2 star - avoid. Not recommended.

1 star - avoid. Not recommend.

And the joke is that recommendation threshold whioll be different for everyone.
Heck some people will decline to recommend a 2 or 3, but still recommend a 1 because there's surprising entertainment value in absolute train wrecks.

The trap is. People reading think the review is using the stars in the same context they do.

This is why star ratings are best suited for thinks that can have objectively measured and evaluated qualities. Like say a knife, a chair, a toner cartridge. Something that is as highly subjective as entertainment value... doesn't really work well.

[Blitz4]

Remember in 2017 when the meme at E3 was saying "4K" over & over?
Remember what gaming was like back then with the push towards microtransactions?
LOL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOWFfxs1fg

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Zeke45 eredeti hozzászólása:

The censorship and lack of transparency in reviews for big-ticket games and/or games tied to big-name publishers.

For example, without being logged in, the War Thunder store page now has only the overall reviews summarized (not the recent reviews). The recent reviews were "overwhelmingly negative" for quite some weeks.

Without logging in, the aforementioned overall reviews are shown as "mostly positive." However, after logging in you can now see the *actual* overall reviews have dropped to "mixed."

Also, in case nobody noticed, they froze the display of reviews for War Thunder when the negative reviews started pouring in, so newer reviews were not displayed on the store page and the same reviews were locked in week after week. (To see newer reviews you had to click the "show all reviews" link and then sort by the more recently posted.)

Steam obviously going to great lengths to bury statistics that don't promote the product.

Not a good look.

okay so is this tantrum over reviews im so over guys like you all you do is complain your not special the world is a shady place full of shady deals everyday oh no poor you grow up go outside

[King Doom]

You want another good example of incredibly shady reviewing? Look at the reviews for Ark: survival evolved. There's a mountain of positive reviews left by accounts named stuff like fdfd who sign up to steam, play for 5 minutes, give it a thumbs up and then never log ever again.