Can my edited reviews realistically still be found?

[ingosupercute]

Hey everyone,
I noticed whenever I edited a review a while after the initial post, it created zero interest. As you may know it can be quite difficult to be found when there are so many people posting their opinion on games. What helps a lot is when you get a few upvotes on your review. However, when you edit a review the old upvotes get deleted.

Now, I also noticed my review date does not get reset along with the votes. So the new version does not appear under recent reviews. There used to be an option to filter for recently updated but it's gone? I also once tried to completely delete my old review first, and then do a new post instead of editing, but the result with the unchanged original posting date remained the same.

So uhm, is my fear of being overlooked due to poor search options justified? Does it even make sense to invest additional time to keep your opinion on games up to date so people can follow changes?

[Ghost Robertson]

I've had the exact same issues and yes i think they get lost in the review void and end up hard for people to find.

If you make a review, Do your absolute best first time, You won't get a second chance.

[ingosupercute]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ghost Robertson:

I've had the exact same issues and yes i think they get lost in the review void and end up hard for people to find.

If you make a review, Do your absolute best first time, You won't get a second chance.

I always do my very best. The thing is some games, especially online, get changes over time and I found it rude towards the developpers to not reflect that in your review. But I guess Steam only cares about review numbers and not quality.

[my new friend]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ingosupercute:

But I guess Steam only cares about review numbers and not quality. :cozyteddymoo:

No. They cared about all the abusers that kept remaking their reviews to stay on top and put an end to it.
New World is down to Mixed anyways.

[ingosupercute]

Diposting pertama kali oleh my new friend:

Diposting pertama kali oleh ingosupercute:

But I guess Steam only cares about review numbers and not quality.

No. They cared about all the abusers that kept remaking their reviews to stay on top and put an end to it.
New World is down to Mixed anyways.

Damn, people really did that? Well that's really bad too. However, I feel like their solution is not good either.

You picked up a good example in New World. Because the game is so dynamically changing. I think I already had four different reviews for it, two positive and two negative. And if things change again, I want to of course reflect that with another complete overhaul. I mean none of them had any upvotes to begin with because NW just got such an enormous amout of reviews.

I don't even need upvotes, I just want to know if people even saw what I invested a lot of time into to write. I feel like a view counter, maybe only visible for the creator, would be a very nice thing to have. Afterall, who wants to write and write and write and not even have certainty if anybody saw it?

Another example of mine would be Sword of Legends online. The review does not really do the game justice, it's not even that great. It just got randomly upvoted and snowballed right at launch. I would like to imrpove it, but I don't because then all the upvotes would be gone. So thanks to the "helpful" mechanic people interested in that game will keep seeing it and get a wrong impression.

Or my Warriors Orochi 4 review: I completely overhauled it this year. The old one was still from the version of the game that had not included the ultimate upgrade pack. The game is old and offline, but because it was very expensive back then, people might still want to buy it in 2k22 with nice sale discount. So I did just that: A review for bargain seekers. No one is gonna find it though.

tl;dr The current state of Steam reviews is only visibility and random upvotes count. Which is why you got one sentence stuff so many times at the very top. Not helpful at all, but from the author's perspective very smart: No time invested, maximum amount of attention right at the start of the game.

[nullable]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ingosupercute:

Diposting pertama kali oleh my new friend:

No. They cared about all the abusers that kept remaking their reviews to stay on top and put an end to it.
New World is down to Mixed anyways.

Damn, people really did that? Well that's really bad too. However, I feel like their solution is not good either.

You certainly don't like it, that's true. But for most games they have so many reviews, and so much content just manifested in user reviews that no particular review is that important. We're talking about a grain of sand in a beach. Not much of a beach without a bunch of sand, but no individual grains matter.

You write your review, make your edits. What's your goal? To generate interest and attention? I'm not sure the review section is really geared to that. My perspective has always been, write your piece and move on.

And you can't believe people tried to game the system? Meanwhile you're editing reviews and and are put off each revision doesn't get you bumped to the top or sufficient visibility? I'm sure half the people abusing the system thought their revisions and opinions were important and needed to be visible too. Not so different than you I'd wager.

Diposting pertama kali oleh ingosupercute:

You picked up a good example in New World. Because the game is so dynamically changing. I think I already had four different reviews for it, two positive and two negative. And if things change again, I want to of course reflect that with another complete overhaul. I mean none of them had any upvotes to begin with because NW just got such an enormous amout of reviews.

I don't even need upvotes, I just want to know if people even saw what I invested a lot of time into to write. I feel like a view counter, maybe only visible for the creator, would be a very nice thing to have. Afterall, who wants to write and write and write and not even have certainty if anybody saw it?

Another example of mine would be Sword of Legends online. The review does not really do the game justice, it's not even that great. It just got randomly upvoted and snowballed right at launch. I would like to imrpove it, but I don't because then all the upvotes would be gone. So thanks to the "helpful" mechanic people interested in that game will keep seeing it and get a wrong impression.

Or my Warriors Orochi 4 review: I completely overhauled it this year. The old one was still from the version of the game that had not included the ultimate upgrade pack. The game is old and offline, but because it was very expensive back then, people might still want to buy it in 2k22 with nice sale discount. So I did just that: A review for bargain seekers. No one is gonna find it though.

tl;dr The current state of Steam reviews is only visibility and random upvotes count. Which is why you got one sentence stuff so many times at the very top. Not helpful at all, but from the author's perspective very smart: No time invested, maximum amount of attention right at the start of the game.

I mean my take is if you're pouring a lot of effort into reviews and believe your content warrants consumption by other people, perhaps the reviews section on Steam isn't the ideal medium. There's hundreds or thousands of people writing reviews for a game, and if they all want the same level of visibility and fairness in the system then there's simply too much competition for very limited visible space to accommodate everyone.