Negative reviews

[Lancelot]

People are just writing negative reviews because they expected game to be something else or they did not like it. Shouldnt be positive and negative reviews include some serious feedback like interface, technical or gameplay issues, etc... I didnt like the game so I will score it badly situation, just confuses people while thinking about buying it or not by looking at the percentage of good/bad reviews. I found some games which have %50-60 positive reviews really entertaining when I bought it.

[xBCxRangers]

Why do people even read that? Don't they watch videos, and see for themselves before they buy a game? I've seen games with terrible reviews that i enjoy, and games with great reviews that are a mess.

Just watch vids and judge for yourself, and end these pre orders. That's just stupid in this day and age.

[Stormer]

The entire point of reviews for entertainment products is to tell if you liked it or not the reason isn’t that important

[peppermint hollows]

Why is not liking something not a valid reason to give a negative review to you?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Lancelot:

I found some games which have %50-60 positive reviews really entertaining when I bought it.

That's fine. Other people are allowed to have a different opinion.

If I don't like or enjoy a game, I won't recommend it so it will get a negative review. Simple.

[N1ck0]

Introducing a Neutral review option would be welcomed. A considerable amount of people who write negative reviews state in them that they wished there would be a Neutral option, as they have a fair amount of criticism about a certain game, but don't necessarily not recommend it.

[Aluvard]

Originally posted by N1ck0:

Introducing a Neutral review option would be welcomed. A considerable amount of people who write negative reviews state in them that they wished there would be a Neutral option, as they have a fair amount of criticism about a certain game, but don't necessarily not recommend it.

Agreed. I tend to avoid writing reviews when I would have to start with "it should be neutral option".

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Lancelot:

People are just writing negative reviews because they expected game to be something else or they did not like it. Shouldnt be positive and negative reviews include some serious feedback like interface, technical or gameplay issues, etc... I didnt like the game so I will score it badly situation, just confuses people while thinking about buying it or not by looking at the percentage of good/bad reviews. I found some games which have %50-60 positive reviews really entertaining when I bought it.

Yes, if I played a game and did not enjoy it, I am going to say I did not enjoy it and leave a negative review.
It's an opinion, and negative opinions about a game (as long as they are given in a civil manner) are just a valid as a positive opinion of a game. I have found some games I really enjoyed that had middling review scores, too, and I have had games with "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews that I did not enjoy- maybe it was the story, or lack of accessibility, or clunky controls, or poor optimization, or whatever. If so- I am going to say so. I cannot and will not recommend a game I did not enjoy.

If people were only allowed to leave positive reviews- even the worst games Steam sells would have resoundingly positive scores- so people would be buying crap thinking they were buying something great. That would be even more confusing, don't you think? Or do you really expect every single gamer to love every single game every made? Life would be rather boring if we weren't allowed to like different things.

[The nameless Gamer]

Not necessarily. A review is ultimately an expression of a subjective experience and personal impression, positive and negative alike. That's not the least because a game is something supposed to entertain us and something providing us a very personal experience. Of course, it's always better if we write what exactly we (dis)liked about the game. A review with little feedback isn't going to be very helpful. This goes double for negative reviews, as the more specific we are in voicing our discontent, the more likely it gets that a potential change could happen in the direction we would want it to happen.

Though there's also the question whether the game we're reviewing is for us or not to begin with. If a person is not the intended audience, no amount of detailed feedback and politeness would ever make a difference. If someone goes complaining about the progression wipe in a roguelike or the difficulty in a souls-like game, those complaints will fall onto deaf ears.

In the end, the best kind of review one could write is the kind of review they themselves would want to read.

[T9]

yay or nay review system is trash anyway
valve just wants to boost numbers

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Aluvard:

Originally posted by N1ck0:

Introducing a Neutral review option would be welcomed. A considerable amount of people who write negative reviews state in them that they wished there would be a Neutral option, as they have a fair amount of criticism about a certain game, but don't necessarily not recommend it.

Agreed. I tend to avoid writing reviews when I would have to start with "it should be neutral option".

If I ask you "would you recommend that I play this game", any answer that is not "yes" is "no".

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by t9:

yay or nay review system is trash anyway
valve just wants to boost numbers

Absolutely. When people consider a game just average, they tend to give it a positive review. After all, it wouldn't be fair to give a negative review to a game that you don't consider bad.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Originally posted by Aluvard:

Agreed. I tend to avoid writing reviews when I would have to start with "it should be neutral option".

If I ask you "would you recommend that I play this game", any answer that is not "yes" is "no".

Both answers are useless, because they don't indicate how good (or bad) a game is. And that's what people want to know when looking at game ratings.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Both answers are useless, because they don't indicate how good (or bad) a game is. And that's what people want to know when looking at game ratings.

“Ninety percent of those who respond would recommend this” is of no use to you?

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Both answers are useless, because they don't indicate how good (or bad) a game is. And that's what people want to know when looking at game ratings.

“Ninety percent of those who respond would recommend this” is of no use to you?

Of little use at best. You surely understand the difference between a Corolla and a Rolls Royce, right? I can recommend you both cars, and yet there's a huge difference between them. Same to any product, including games.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Lancelot:

People are just writing negative reviews because they expected game to be something else or they did not like it.

So they are literally using the review the way they are supposed to, by saying why THEY didn't like it? Shocker.