Valve, please fix the "joke reviews"

[alteredStateOfTheEast()]

Every game review is a meme. Out of all the highlighted reviews on major games, 9/10 are memes and jokes. This can't be the way we go forward with reviews. I would like to see actual reviews and I can't be the only one.

[AustrAlien2010]

Is the 54 year old father still a thing? Seriously, what is that? It has been going on for years. Its always the same thing. Why do people do that? Are they all bots?

What sort of ridiculousness is this? Even a joker would change its repertoire at some point. It doesn't make sense to have hundreds of thousands of accounts post that they are a 54 year old father for years on end... Is there any logical explanation for it?

[Reaper]

Diposting pertama kali oleh AustrAlien2010:

Is the 54 year old father still a thing? Seriously, what is that? It has been going on for years. Its always the same thing. Why do people do that? Are they all bots?

What sort of ridiculousness is this? Even a joker would change its repertoire at some point. It doesn't make sense to have hundreds of thousands of accounts post that they are a 54 year old father for years on end... Is there any logical explanation for it?

Of course it's still a thing. I can't tell if at this point it's people liking it "ironically" for the meme or it's literally their first day on the internet who believe everything.

[AustrAlien2010]

But it cannot be fixed. Its not human to report a two word review, only because you disagree with someone writing two words. It would bring the developer and Steam in a quandary. Nobody will understand it, and everybody will become angry.

It will also not accomplish anything, because those people won't suddenly change into professional writers because you report them. They will only be confused and get angry with the developer.

[mohit9206]

Reviews that are less than 100 words should be auto deleted or something to get rid of these useless worthless reviews. I prefer steam reviews over critic reviews but these joke reviews make getting to the real reviews difficult. I really appreciate and thank people who write detailed reviews but efforts of such people are overshadowed by these worthless joke reviews.

[Neo]

I agree OP. The problem is made worse by the award system. People post the meme joke reviews because they know it can net them tons of points for their profile.

So instead of getting good thoughtful reviews, we mostly see floods of "are you winning son" etc and people throwing points at them like it's the first time they have seen that joke.

[Tito Shivan]

Steam's approach to joke reviews is that they're a self-solving issue.
Joke reviews get the 'it's funny' upvote instead of the 'I found this helpful' one and go in their own funny rating. So they should be sunk by actual helpful reviews.

But people being people do people things. People actually give helpful upvotes to joke or meme reviews and the perspective of earning a few awards has increased the amount of 'bait' reviews hunting for those juicy awards. It's not like the first time Steam sacrifices usability for the sake of engagement either.

I guess things will have to go really south before Steam steps in and make some changes.

[Crazy Tiger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh mohit9206:

Reviews that are less than 100 words should be auto deleted or something to get rid of these useless worthless reviews. I prefer steam reviews over critic reviews but these joke reviews make getting to the real reviews difficult. I really appreciate and thank people who write detailed reviews but efforts of such people are overshadowed by these worthless joke reviews.

Amount of words is meaningless. Often the best reviews I read are short ones (less than 100 words definitely), preferably negative ones.

Those "detailed reviews with effort" usually are the ones I skip. I want to read a quick review, not a novella. Most people add too much pointless fluff to such reviews anyway.

[CEO Hunter]

Diposting pertama kali oleh alteredStateOfTheEast():

Every game review is a meme. Out of all the highlighted reviews on major games, 9/10 are memes and jokes. This can't be the way we go forward with reviews. I would like to see actual reviews and I can't be the only one.

If it doesn't break the guidelines then just deal with it.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

i like the mix...
i really dont want to waste my time
reading long review after long review
for a $20 game..

my global review
10 year old games should be $3
your welcome

[Realigo Actual]

Sometimes it's already been said well enough and there is no reason to write an essay.

No Cho! You don't write reviews like that Cho.

Sometimes I do!

[Призрак Киева]

fun police arrived

[Dumdoldoor]

just hit read all reviews and look for a few more. There are plenty of good reviews.

[alteredStateOfTheEast()]

Diposting pertama kali oleh twitch.tv/тромб:

fun police arrived :GDDemon::VGRUMPY:

When steam first started, the top reviews were basically professionally written reviews. You could find every single view point and people who had your interests reviewing the game you were looking at. These were all the "top" reviews and finding the information you needed was very easy.
Now, it's all just memes, jokes, one liners or inside jokes. That's not a cool experience.