FOXDUDE69 27 DIC 2020 a las 4:18
Steam reviews need a five star rating scale.
The simplistic thumbs up or thumbs down thing can be very misleading. Games aren't just good or bad, there's a gradient there and I know you can explain your rating in the text but when you go to a store page and you see an "overwhelmingly positive" rating of 98%, you might think it's the hottest thing since Jessica Alba, only to buy the game and realize it's just a 4 out of 5 game.

But that's not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is when you have a game that is overall good but has some serious issues. Or a game that's just "good enough" for the price. The reviewer is forced to pick from positive or negative rating and since the experience was overall positive, they pick positive which usually results in games having a "very positive" rating, sitting around 85% when in reality it's a 2.5 or 3 out of 5 game.

The absolute worst scenario is one like Fallout 3's which is left in an abysmal state because of steam's lack of standards and Bethesda's let-the-fans-fix-it attitude resulting in a game that doesn't even launch without being modded by the paying costumer and requires further work to run well. Every new player needs to go through this process but the game is real good after you you spend a good amount of time fixing it, so they leave positive reviews... on a game that doesn't even launch. And it's sitting right now with a "mostly positive" rank on steam.

A simple five star rating scale would help a lot and provide a much more honest and accurate average rating.

Thank you for reading.
Publicado originalmente por Jessie:
We could have both the 5-star rating (how do you rate the game from 0-5), the recommendation (recommended to play / buy - or not), and the review content - all together.
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Nx Machina 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:25 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
You don't even know what you are arguing anymore. You were arguing against the 5 point scale by pointing out that people don't agree. That's what I was responding to.
You can't even comprehend whats being said or what context it's being said in, even when your own quotes are right there in the post.

I absolutely do know what I am posting, you on the other hand fail to counter anything and would rather post "Kusa".

Odd how you keep posting about Fallout 3 whilst claiming it is not about Fallout 3. Once again thank you so much for confirming it is about Fallout 3.

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Yes it is, the reviews that don't mention these issues are few and far between.
Claiming otherwise is just pointless because everyone can read your post, go to the store page and see that you're in the wrong here. You will only lose credibility.

It is only 29,133 reviews from 2 to 5 million owners.

https://ibb.co/WtPwPyB
Última edición por Nx Machina; 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:29
FOXDUDE69 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:33 
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Yes it is, the reviews that don't mention these issues are few and far between.
Claiming otherwise is just pointless because everyone can read your post, go to the store page and see that you're in the wrong here. You will only lose credibility.

It is only 29,133 reviews from 2 to 5 million owners.

I'm not even gonna go into why this argument is so absurd and irrelevant, I'm just gonna let someone else tackle it if they genuinely take it seriously. Good luck.
Start_Running 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:48 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
Itys not the Vast Majority m8.

Yes it is, the reviews that don't mention these issues are few and far between.
Claiming otherwise is just pointless because everyone can read your post, go to the store page and see that you're in the wrong here. You will only lose credibility.

And you're saying you've read through all 28K reviews? Doubt it. BUt even if I gave you that many peope encounter the issue the key point is, the majority can still recommend it. Which means the issue is at best considered to be minor, and the rest of the game more than makes up for it.

As others have said. PC gamers are used to this. Bethesda gamers even more so, and Fallout players even moreso still.
Nx Machina 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:53 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
I'm not even gonna go into why this argument is so absurd and irrelevant, I'm just gonna let someone else tackle it if they genuinely take it seriously. Good luck.

You have been making an absurd irrelevant argument every since you made your OP post especially when you want a system which is in stark contrast to your Fallout 3 and Destiny 2 rants as they are definitely not reviews.

Positive reviewers RECOMMEND Fallout 3 despite it flaws and issues, not complicated, nor complex just you with an axe to grind.
Última edición por Nx Machina; 2 ENE 2021 a las 11:57
Start_Running 2 ENE 2021 a las 12:09 
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
I'm not even gonna go into why this argument is so absurd and irrelevant, I'm just gonna let someone else tackle it if they genuinely take it seriously. Good luck.

You have been making an absurd irrelevant argument every since you made your OP post especially when you want a system which is in stark contrast to your Fallout 3 and Destiny 2 rants as they are definitely not reviews.

Positive reviewers RECOMMEND Fallout 3 despite it flaws and issues, not complicated, nor complex just you with an axe to grind.

And the fact that they do in of it self says alot about the quality of the game. RThus is the nuance of the recommend system.
FOXDUDE69 2 ENE 2021 a las 12:12 
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
And you're saying you've read through all 28K reviews? Doubt it.

Where did I say that? I said a gave a good long look to the reviews from the last few years.
Which if you bothered doing, and if you were honest about it, you'd agree it paints a very clear picture.

Now, exactly how much this would impact someone's rating of the game is much harder to ascertain with the current review system then it would be with a 5 point scale. Because at the moment, we'd have to go into every single review individually to get a good picture, instead of just looking at the rating in a 5 point scale and see where the game actually lies.
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Indeed, as we have been discussing this proposal; I am not required to agree with them (including you).
No you are not.

We do not need to agree with you nor validate your want.
And I do not need to agree with your takes on things either. Get used to it.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Thanks confirming that you have a delusional impression of my thinking.
Thanks for confirming you are just here to argue and are lost for words.
I will gladly repost what you posted so that all can see how it makes no sense.
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
It is for Valve to decide, oddly a concept you fail to grasp but I suppose as with all things if you post about it long enough it will happen except for:
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
You[/i] think that I think that posting about it long enough will make it happen and thus you take it upon yourself to tell me it won't. Repeatedly.
Like you did with "forced updates".
There isn't anything to argue, against a statement from you that makes no sense.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
As a sidenote : You are not talking with Start_Running because each and every time you contradict what they post.
Two people don't have to agree to talk to each other.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Come on Quint you made your thoughts on me clear so why are you really replying to me.
Because you are replying to me; does that work?

And it's not clear that you've gotten my point since you keep saying all sorts of weird and outlandish things. For example, saying that two people who disagree are not talking with each other, saying that I think that posting about something long enough will make it happen, and so on.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Unilaterally? "Quint says this thread is about reviews" - how many times now?
I didn't choose the thread topic; OP did.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
The want is an opinion.
Nah! it is a want. [/quote]Opinions are wants.

Meanwhile, I will continue talking with Start_Running.



Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
So, its seems this has broken down to one guy wanting it because he thinks that a particular game's score is 'higher than it should be' and another who thinks Neutral or middle ground reviews are more informative because belief/bias.
You forgot about one guy who insists that whatever Valve is doing is the best choice because Valve always knows best but users never do, and one guy who posts a long series of non-sequiturs and argues over everything, plus the various other people who chimed in but didn't stay for the entire ongoing marathon.

Publicado originalmente por DevLBD:
When you see 98% positive, that means that 98% of the people liked it, not that it is 98% good.
Start_Running, here you can see evidence of a person interpreting Steam's userscore as how people feel about a game ("98% of the people liked it"), rather than whether people would recommend it.

This is just one example of evidence against your argument that the system is not about feeling but about recommendations. The system is not working correctly if what you say is its goal, because it is making people think that it is about feelings.
Publicado originalmente por DevLBD:
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:

Indeed, but that 98% still affects a games' visibility in the store, especially when users sort the store by user reviews. With this in mind, would you still prefer Steam to continue using the recommend system or would you be open to the idea a 5 star scale?

Maybe to encounter all people's preference I'd go for both options.

They could do a five star rating (which should be objective) and the like/dislike (obviously subjective), to make everyone happy.

For example this game is 3/5 but I still recommend it (thumbs up), with reasons why explained in the description.

If done correctly your suggestion would be applied and should make everyone happy, but if you know how the Steam Community is you already know that there will be trolls writing dumb reviews.
Yeah, having both options would be able to let people choose whichever one they prefer.

That's a good idea.



Publicado originalmente por DevLBD:
Why wouldn't both likes/dislikes and votes work together? Netflix had them both for a bit, before removing written reviews.
Because Start_Running's staked his position on the notion that systems with more than two points are not useful.

Publicado originalmente por DevLBD:
They could also do some beta-testing with Steam Labs, because OP surely isn't the only one who would like a voting with numbers system.
OP is very definitely not, if you skim through the thread, you'll also see my posts, as well as the posts of various other people who also like this idea. If you do a search for such topics as a neutral or mixed or informational review/recommendation option, you'll find even more posts in support of the idea, from a variety of different users over the years (plus even more insistently ragging on the idea from Start_Running).


Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
NOT EVERYONE EXPERIENCES PROBLEMS

THAT'S WHY OPTIONS WERE INVENTED

And this suggestion is for an option to rate the game in a different way be available to people.



Publicado originalmente por DevLBD:
Funny how the conversation is now about Bethesda and the bugs their games have, lol.
Shogun Blade has been insisting (since post #2) that OP is actually only here to flame Fallout 3. (There were actually a bunch more posts from him on this that were deleted at some point, probably by a mod for being off-topic.)
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Publicado originalmente por Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder:
I think the argument that a 5 point scale allows flexibility and nuance that a binary system doesn't is so fundamentally obvious to be unchallengable. There may be other issues at play but it's clearly a more flexible system.

S.x.

And yet it has been challenged. It's flaws have been pointed out such as the system been used to review bomb games
Review bombs happened on Steam despite the fact that Steam only has a two-point rating system.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
no one can agree on games been rated, one mans trash is another mans treasure.
And the job of a rating system is to let people disagree.

A 3-point scale and a 5-point scale allow for that disagreement too.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
1) And yet Valve curbed review bombing as they do not count to the overall score
They did it by simply removing a bunch of reviews from a given timeframe from counting.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
3) No one cares about Amazon or Tripadvisor and what they do - this is about Steam.
And Steam can improve its review system by allowing for a 3- or 5-position status.
Última edición por Quint the Alligator Snapper; 2 ENE 2021 a las 12:28
cinedine 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:01 
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Yeah, having both options would be able to let people choose whichever one they prefer.

That's a good idea.

No it's not.

SCORES ARE EVIL.
And nonsense.

Do you want games have the mobile "give us five stars please" begging content?
Do you want developers lose out on bonus payments because they missed the threshold by one point?
Do you want to have users harrassed because they dared to give the "best game ever" only a 4/5?
Do you want great but slightly flawed games excluded from your discovery queue or hidden away on page 2 because they only got a 3.9/5?
Do you want more of the same old same old developed to tick boxes that have a high chance to grant high scores?

And what for? So that people can now draw an arbitrary line when they consider a game trash at 4.0 instead of 80 %?
There is no benefit for anyone in there.
Stop obsessing over numbers.
Tito Shivan 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:09 
Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
SCORES ARE EVIL.
And nonsense.
Sometimes I wish more people had to suffer depending on the results of a customer satisfaction review metric to realise how much of a perversion these metrics have turned out to be.
Nx Machina 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:16 
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
And I do not need to agree with your takes on things either. Get used to it.

Oh! my at last so we agree your definition of forced updates needs not repeating.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
I will gladly repost what you posted so that all can see how it makes no sense.

When you start making sense feel free to repost mine.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Like you did with "forced updates".

Says the man who kept posting your definition of "forced updates" which is incorrect by the way as mods do not count when it comes to official updates from developers.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Two people don't have to agree to talk to each other.

So true so why are you still replying after you stated you would no longer? Oh! that's right you cannot resist and cannot let go.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Because you are replying to me; does that work?

Your replying so it obviously does work.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
I didn't choose the thread topic; OP did.

No you did not but you did keep posting what it was about.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Opinions are wants.

Wants require agreement - options need to exist and 5 star reviews do not.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Meanwhile, I will continue talking with Start_Running.

Meanwhile you will keep contradicting Start_Running as you always do.
Última edición por Nx Machina; 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:17
Nx Machina 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:25 
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Review bombs happened on Steam despite the fact that Steam only has a two-point rating system.

And Valve curbed them and a 5 star rating system will be used to disguise review bombing.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
And the job of a rating system is to let people disagree.

And the current system already does that after all I disagreed with s.x over his review of Divinity Original Sin EE and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

The system is working as intended.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
A 3-point scale and a 5-point scale allow for that disagreement too.

It won't happen as the current system works alongside other systems Valve set up.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
They did it by simply removing a bunch of reviews from a given timeframe from counting.

As they would with a 5 star system.

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
And Steam can improve its review system by allowing for a 3- or 5-position status.

It does not need to.

Just because you want another system does not make the current system flawed.


And finally you are still here arguing for arguing sake. Try I will not reply, stick to your guns.
Última edición por Nx Machina; 2 ENE 2021 a las 13:26
Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
SCORES ARE EVIL.
And nonsense.
We already have a Steam userscore feature.

Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
Do you want games have the mobile "give us five stars please" begging content?
The same can be asked about "give us a positive review please".
Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
Do you want developers lose out on bonus payments because they missed the threshold by one point?
The same mistreatment of employees can result from getting a Steam game rated only "mostly positive" rather than "positive".

Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
Do you want to have users harrassed because they dared to give the "best game ever" only a 4/5?
What about giving the "best game ever" a negative rating? That's even more stark.
But, actually, Steam already made reviews default to having comments turned off.

Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
Do you want great but slightly flawed games excluded from your discovery queue or hidden away on page 2 because they only got a 3.9/5?
The same can be said using a threshold applied to the Steam userscore as it currently exists.
Also I've gone way farther than page 2 on my Discovery Queue anyway. Besides, the main motivator for going through the Queue is to get trading cards, up to three a day, so for people who go through it, they'll be going through three pages anyway.

Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
Do you want more of the same old same old developed to tick boxes that have a high chance to grant high scores?
I don't know what you're talking about.

Publicado originalmente por cinedine:
And what for? So that people can now draw an arbitrary line when they consider a game trash at 4.0 instead of 80 %?
There is no benefit for anyone in there.
Stop obsessing over numbers.
The point isn't even the numbers; the point is that such a system would let reviewers more properly represent their opinions and make it more convenient for readers to find the kinds of reviews they want to read.
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
I will gladly repost what you posted so that all can see how it makes no sense.
When you start making sense feel free to repost mine.
Already did both.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Says the man who kept posting your definition of "forced updates" which is incorrect by the way as mods do not count when it comes to official updates from developers.
Multiple users aside from myself have used "forced" to describe these updates; your definition is not the alpha and omega.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Two people don't have to agree to talk to each other.
So true so why are you still replying after you stated you would no longer? Oh! that's right you cannot resist and cannot let go.
I never stated I would no longer reply. In fact, I stated that I reply when I want to. One would think that you would get your information straight since you seem to enjoy digging into people's post histories.
Also, your question doesn't follow logically from what you're replying to anyway.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Opinions are wants.
Wants require agreement
Wants do not require agreement.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Meanwhile, I will continue talking with Start_Running.
Meanwhile you will keep contradicting Start_Running as you always do.
Is that a problem?
Also, that only happens most of the time; you'd have found exceptions where he and I do agree if you dug through my post history.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
And Valve curbed them and a 5 star rating system will be used to disguise review bombing.
The way Valve reduced their impact on the rating (note that they did not actually prevent review bombs from happening in the first place) was nothing related to the difference between a 2-point and a 5-point rating system.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
They did it by simply removing a bunch of reviews from a given timeframe from counting.
As they would with a 5 star system.
Good that you understand that their procedure is independent of their choice of review system.

Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
And finally you are still here arguing for arguing sake. Try I will not reply, stick to your guns.
I don't need you to reply anyway; if you think I'm doing this only for you, then you have an inflated sense of self-importance.
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