Requirements for poublishing a review

[Trylk248]

So, hello there dear players. Today I would like to suggest a modification to the reviewing system for games. You know, when you are browsing the store for some new games for your library, you always wonder "Is this worth the amount of money I'd have to spend for this specific game?". Then you start at looking at the reviews, following up by looking at the trailer or some screenshots. And then that thing called "Mixed" feedbacks pops to your eyes. Interesting...

To be fair with you, I would enforce a more serious reviewing system. I would say you have to play for at least 1 hour and mention a minimum of three good points about the game and three bad points about it as well. Then, if you have screenshots of the game in question, you could add them to your review, the same could be applied to streams or even videos! That would make reviews better and would encourage people to play more than 1 minute and review the game with a "Horrible piece of crapware" review which makes no literal sense and shouldn't count as a fair review.

[Yasahi]

No, just no. This has been discussed time and time again.

1. Having a minimum playtime would result in people idling the game. Pushing it to two hours would lead to people not being able to refund, thus skewing the results.

2. There's no way of determining what is a good point or a bad point. Reviews are free form opinions and as such there's really no formal requirements for them.

3. A game can be a horrible piece of shovelware from the first seconds. You don't really need more than that in some cases. The game could also have severe technical problems, again no reason to force people spend time with it.

[Sovietball]

Honestly there needs to be a filter that just auto removes posts like these.

What yasahi said, you can search time limits for reviews and we have mentioned countless times it doesnt matter. Hours dont mean a person has played much of a game, refunds exist and some games dont run for people for one reason or another etc etc.

[Trylk248]

Got it, don't have to go full hatemode on me tho.