Joystick 2023 年 11 月 26 日 上午 4:10
Do you trust low playtime positive reviews?
Why there a lot of people who like to do positive reviews with a biblical text and only play the game for 0.3 to 0.5 hrs??.

I know there is a lot of bots who boost shady games, but when you see that person profile with over 100 souless and low playtime positive reviews and realize he is not a bot, you stop looking and start asking to yourself. "Why they do that?".

I started to feel that every time i see a new game releases that look fun and interesting have this kind of reviews, ended up in a bad game or mid term at least. This topic is not new, but i see a increase in the amount of people who like to do this over the past years.
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Ganger 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 12:24 
引用自 hypehype
Also back then you could trade in your bad game or swap it with a friend. Can't do that with digital.

And this is one of many reasons I am more frugal with game purchases

Yeah... you could trade, lead, swap, sell or store the game away. You had control of that piece of software. Now you don't own anything but yet we have people who will defend digital distribution and lack of ownership because said companies will thrown scraps of digital pixels down to us to keep us happy.

PS.. people will comment saying 'you never owned the game in the first place'. Yes this is true, but you owned the media the software came on be it cartridge, cassette, floppy disc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray and you could do what you wished with this media.
Xautos 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 1:55 
引用自 Joystick
Do you trust low playtime positive reviews?

no, but i do the same with insanely high hours as well. because people can easily idle in the menu screen doing nothing leaving the game open 24/7 to make it look like they played it to excess. The fact of the matter is that they don't play any more than any other user and only know as much as anyone else typically. occasionally one could be honest, but find that honest user in all that is difficult, like tarring everyone with the same brush, it's not a nice thing to do.

do your own research always, always research until you found what you are looking for or you exhausted the research and need a second opinion, not so much deciding on buying it as no one can answer that, but rather find more information that you can't find in the research that other users know.
AmsterdamHeavy 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 2:00 
It depends what the review says. For example, a pet peeve of mind is no option to rebind keys. You dont need even an hour in a game to report something like that.
spielerinchen 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 3:32 
that's why i read first the negative reviews. if they are intelligently formulated & have substance, then critique seems legit. every "game is good" positive review gets from me a dislike. if the length of in game time is relevant depends on game.
MrsChuggles 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 6:05 
I use to get overly excited when I initially started a new game. I've come to learn just how be quickly that excitement can fade or evolve into something less pleasant. I also better understand there's parts of a game and the games community you don't get a full sense of until you've been around, at least for a little while.

I also agree with the general opinions of other community members in this thread.

Perhaps steam should introduce a minimum threshold of playtime hours to unlock the ability to leave a review.
76561199559798421 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 6:18 
just check steam stats under "lethal company" this is the prefect example of review fraud and developers purchasing there own product to create review hype. no you should ever trust low time reviews, you should also never trust reviews with what seems like copy and pasted identical replys.

i have read countless numbers of reviews and we need a system to mark the fraud reviews so steam can delete the identical review content all across the review system.

stories like

"i couldn't find a game to play with my kid, but then this game was so good, im now spending more time then ever with my (son/daughter) then we have in years, This games Awesome."

type of review bot needs to be removed and simply stories that just are to over the top and non productive to the actual games dynamics.
最后由 Everyone is Invited 编辑于; 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 6:19
76561197960287930 2023 年 11 月 27 日 上午 6:45 
I more inclined to trust ascii art, cat, chad, Walter White, Shrek, Are you winning son? etc, and nobody reads reviews so I''ll say im. G - Y, the spams for points because friends said they would give them alcohol and spirits, the I've got cancer reviews, the, I'm a 57 year old father reviews, the reviews where the devlopers reply to the spam. :steammocking:

Fake, spam user reviews can be reported to the US Federal Trade Commission and Valve could be potentially fined for all them but all that doesn't seem to bother Valve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoKTR4QR6-w

all legit reviews right here 122.4 hours on most of them :steammocking
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059707600/recommended

there are 1000's of these spams on products. Thanks Valve! Thanks FTC! Thanks Community, take my points! MOST HELPFUL!

PS you can still read most users banned reviews using F12 to inspect elements, or I have discovered that you can post other users banned reviews in a Steam Chat and half the hidden banned text is readable. No thought put into the banning process, no thought put into the points awards process and people pushing not Helpful spam with a Helpful button.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970193418/recommended
simply no reason for 830 spams except for points and that they can.

Notices of Penalty Offenses
Federal Trade Commission (gov)
.ftc gov › enforcement › penalty-offenses
Companies that receive this Notice and nevertheless engage in prohibited practices can face civil penalties of up to $50,120 per violation.

$50,120 x 830 = $41,599,600 Make it so FTC! Because Valve has a hard time with even removing blatant spam.

and btw Valve received one of these Notices of Penalty Offenses from FTC in 2021, the FTC have disclosed their name in a list of recipients. it's just too bad here we are going into 2024, and what has changed? nothing.

I guess keep building that case FTC. buy into te kool-aid that Valve was unaware even though you told them, or that they were aware, users reports, but those reports will be locked up in a queue for review over the next "3" years or more, Valve Time.
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Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD} 2023 年 11 月 27 日 下午 8:17 
引用自 Joystick
Why there a lot of people who like to do positive reviews with a biblical text and only play the game for 0.3 to 0.5 hrs??.

I know there is a lot of bots who boost shady games, but when you see that person profile with over 100 souless and low playtime positive reviews and realize he is not a bot, you stop looking and start asking to yourself. "Why they do that?".

I started to feel that every time i see a new game releases that look fun and interesting have this kind of reviews, ended up in a bad game or mid term at least. This topic is not new, but i see a increase in the amount of people who like to do this over the past years.
yes cuz they most likely played on console and know their stuff
ElrompePussis 2023 年 11 月 27 日 下午 11:02 
yo creo q ñ
Kage Goomba 2023 年 11 月 27 日 下午 11:12 
引用自 76561197960287930
I more inclined to trust ascii art, cat, chad, Walter White, Shrek, Are you winning son? etc, and nobody reads reviews so I''ll say im. G - Y, the spams for points because friends said they would give them alcohol and spirits, the I've got cancer reviews, the, I'm a 57 year old father reviews, the reviews where the devlopers reply to the spam. :steammocking:

Fake, spam user reviews can be reported to the US Federal Trade Commission and Valve could be potentially fined for all them but all that doesn't seem to bother Valve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoKTR4QR6-w

all legit reviews right here 122.4 hours on most of them :steammocking
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059707600/recommended

there are 1000's of these spams on products. Thanks Valve! Thanks FTC! Thanks Community, take my points! MOST HELPFUL!

PS you can still read most users banned reviews using F12 to inspect elements, or I have discovered that you can post other users banned reviews in a Steam Chat and half the hidden banned text is readable. No thought put into the banning process, no thought put into the points awards process and people pushing not Helpful spam with a Helpful button.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970193418/recommended
simply no reason for 830 spams except for points and that they can.

Notices of Penalty Offenses
Federal Trade Commission (gov)
.ftc gov › enforcement › penalty-offenses
Companies that receive this Notice and nevertheless engage in prohibited practices can face civil penalties of up to $50,120 per violation.

$50,120 x 830 = $41,599,600 Make it so FTC! Because Valve has a hard time with even removing blatant spam.

and btw Valve received one of these Notices of Penalty Offenses from FTC in 2021, the FTC have disclosed their name in a list of recipients. it's just too bad here we are going into 2024, and what has changed? nothing.

I guess keep building that case FTC. buy into te kool-aid that Valve was unaware even though you told them, or that they were aware, users reports, but those reports will be locked up in a queue for review over the next "3" years or more, Valve Time.

Oh yes....totally going to file a claim at the FTC for a game review.
Totally worth their time and effort.

Thanks for the good laugh either way.
Shiro♌ 2023 年 11 月 28 日 上午 3:03 
It does depend a lot on the context of the review, what kind of impression the review initially gives.
One worded reviews or reviews lacking the explanation why they haven't bothered playing for longer are very pointless to me, because I do need to know these reasons to know what to watch out for and what to expect.

Then, upon going through the negative reviews, I do go through the positive reviews.. Though, I do usually switch it up and start with positive reviews to know what to expect from the product in case I end up liking it.
Once I read both sides of the coin, I do consider my own interests, expectations from the product, compare all reviews to see if there's a contradiction as the odds of people making some things up are way too high to not have any doubts..
If even that doesn't help and I'm indecisive, I do see if some of my Steam friends have that product in their account and ask them about it, my thoughts, their thoughts and experiences, and compare those with the reviews I have read. Naturally, I don't end up only asking them, it does end up being a discussion.

And even if reviews and friends don't help.. I do browse through YouTube reviews by IGN and other trustworthy sources (though, the quality has decreased over the past ten years, or I have changed way too much) and possibly browse through Reddit.
If I'm still indecisive, I do head over to Steam discussions and read what people have to say about the product.

So, in the end.. I do end up thinking and planning before buying products months in-advance, the few last days before making my decision for over an hour everyday.
Most products are of low-quality nowadays as the developers are barely passionate about their projects anymore, and it shows.. Multiplayer games are abandoned by the time they reach second year or third year, unless the profit is truly significant to force them to keep adding some new stuff to the game.. But still, it can be felt by how designed everything is and by the lack of feedback that the passion is long gone and they're in it for the money.
goncharowwa.marianna 2023 年 11 月 28 日 上午 4:36 
product and Thrau geam:steammocking:
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