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No.
And why do you say that?
Do you apply that standard to other services or products upon which you’d opine?
If I can't get the game up and running for more than 5 seconds at a time, why should that limit me to not leaving a review?
All your idea will do is skew games to the positive because of the fact that if you can play it more than 2 hours, you are more likely to leave a positive review, if you are unable to stand the game or can't run it for the 2 hours, you have 2 options, refund with no review, or keep a game you hate/can't run just to leave a negative review. Most will not keep a game they hate/can't run just to say they hate it/can't run it.
But you would have found all this out had you bothered to use the search feature like you are suggested to do in the pinned thread that you would have read before posting.
This was a bad idea the first 100+ times it was suggested, its a bad idea now it will still be a bad idea the next 1000+ times its suggest.
Hyperbole doesn'rt help your argument here. It is well known to be 5 mins. And nothing stops people from using the full refund window. But why force people to play even an hour of a game they geneuinely dislike?
Only then can you truly understand whether the game is good or not
10 seconds, 5 minutes, what's the difference? Either way, you cannot give a fair assessment of a game in that time. When I look at a games store page and see the review score I want to know that score is coming from people who actually played the game, not people who booted it up for 5 minutes and then left a bad review (usually over something minor). It's the same people who give games 0/10 on Metacritic because of a tiny issue, they just muddy the waters and make it hard for potential buyers to know if a game is actually bad, or if it's being review bombed because the main character is a female.
Reviews note playtime, so they’re amenable to filtering currently.
Doesn’t the content of the review rather clarify such distinctions for you?
I've refunded several games within 30 minutes. Learnt all I needed to within that time. Cyberpunk being the latest. 'F' being forced for basic stuff and not being allowed to rebind the usual command/s to 'E' like has been used for decades on PC. Sure I could have messed around and edit a config file or something but for something as basic as reassigning a key I shouldn't have needed to. Especially when we could rebind other keys just NOT the 'F' key over 20 years playing on PC with 'E' as the default use key = I'm forever hitting E which does something else.
That annoyed me from the start so throw a few other things to dislike/get annoyed at = me saying screw it. I shouldn't have to play just under to hours to review it. Just like if I buy a car only to find the gear stick is clunky, steering wheel poorly aligned + anything else I'd return it and review it as such.
You can tell lots of things in a short time. You want to essentially prevent anyone that has a valid negative experience reviewing a game and that mean game mainly get reviewed by people that enjoyed it more = positive reviews with next to 0 negative reviews
As it's now you can at least value the playtime of each review without wondering if the playtime is real or it was idled just for the sake of writing the review.
Also keep in mind that Steam reviews are merely a recommendation.
These kind of suggestions usually can get noted down to "people not liking that their favorite game gets negative reviews".
You can't always assess a person only has 5 minutes in a game. A friend of mine plays most of his games in offline mode. Various reviews are less than 30 minutes playtime, but in reality I know he played them for many hours.
As others have pointed out, adding a playtime-gate to reviews would be foolish for numerous reasons and it could all be circumvented by just idling the game for a bit. Something that many already do for the trading cards. By your logic a review posted by someone who idles the game for cards would be more valid than the one made by someone who actually went past the starting screen.
Personally I think if a game is ♥♥♥♥, I should not have to wait X amount of hours to review a game. If I'm gonna leave a review, I'm gonna put one down the instant I can.
Not only that, you will only see positive reviews if you want to search by X amount of hours because most negative reviews are below or directly at the 2 hour mark (rarely above). This is because you can easily review a game by its UI, gameplay and etc, and if you don't like it then stop playing it and leave a review. No game should be required to have X amount of hours to 'properly' review.