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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Darren 29 DIC 2020 a las 20:38 
Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:
Publicado originalmente por Darren:
You missed a question. How does a 5-star review system do that better?

It sounds like what you need to get more out of your time looking at reviews is a way to filter reviews to only include longer ones, not a 5-star review system (since it doesn't matter what the score is, just what they say the game did well or poorly).
There's also the fact that I want a mix of information; I want to know what people think the game did well and what people think the game did poorly.

So not only am I looking for longer reviews, I'm looking for reviews that are likely to have that mix. That's where the ratings in the middle come in.

It doesn't have to be a 5-star review system; I think that Steam would be well-served by simply introducing a neutral/informational option, as long as it's something that I can filter to see (i.e. excluding negative and positive).

So you are claiming that only the neutral reviews would actually contain this information on what the game does well and poorly?

Any well written recommendation (whether positive or negative) should contain that information. If there was a neutral option the useful recommendations for you wouldn't solely exist (and I personally would argue likely wouldn't exist since anyone capable of putting their thoughts in order enough to provide a well-written review can put their thoughts together well enough to indicate whether they recommend or do not recommend the product) in that neutral/informational bucket.

I've never seen a useful informational review from curators (which have that option) although I'm sure some of those have been useful to someone they've always been something like "we are aware of this product, but it's too early to tell whether it's going to be good or not at this stage" which isn't useful to me (and is as much as waste of my time reading it as it was their time writing it).
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Jessie 29 DIC 2020 a las 20:40 
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.
Darren 29 DIC 2020 a las 21:32 
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.

But what value is the 5-star rating adding to the person reading the review?

Answer the same question I've posed the others in the thread how exactly do you go about assessing (with reviews/recommendations) whether or not a product is the one you want to purchase (draw on experience from wherever you want that has user reviews to answer this)? How is this improved with a 5-star rating over the current system?

Reviews/recommendations are there to help people purchase products they will like, not for the people making the reviews so if something doesn't actually provide any benefit to the people reading the reviews there is no point in having it.
FOXDUDE69 29 DIC 2020 a las 22:00 
Publicado originalmente por LizardMizard:
Totally support you OP, a five star system adds nuance. 5 stars and 1 star is almost blind devotion to something. and can almost be treated as an indication of popular support or bandwagons. 4, 3, and 2 star reviews suggest whoever reviewed it spent more time thinking about it that either of those cases, and I love sorting through those reviews. It is subjective, but so will anything. Short of a curation system, which already exists, this is a pretty good metric for the general public.

Indeed. Amazon, for example, allows you to sort reviews by rating. The 2, 3 and 4 star reviews are usually the ones with the most relevant opinions.

It's hard for me to take the Steam review system seriously since all my recommendations carry the same weight when in reality there are games that I'd recommend more strongly than others. The text allows for nuance obviously but the weight my review carries in the overall rating is inaccurate.
FOXDUDE69 29 DIC 2020 a las 22:07 
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.

Now there is a brilliant mind!

Some people here are very fond of the recommendation system and they assume that a 5 star system would have to replace it. I also assumed as much.

I believe it's the first time someone suggested having both!

It's literally just one more stat to add to the current review system and would result in us having both an overall recommendation rating and an overall star rating.

Nothing would have to be changed or converted, since one could just leave their old reviews without a star rating if they so choose.
Última edición por FOXDUDE69; 29 DIC 2020 a las 22:16
Start_Running 30 DIC 2020 a las 0:11 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
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.

Now there is a brilliant mind!
Which then brings the problem of. what do you do with the literal millions of votes games already have.
FOXDUDE69 30 DIC 2020 a las 0:22 
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
Which then brings the problem of. what do you do with the literal millions of votes games already have.

That was already answered on post #140 which you quoted but left out the bit that would answer that question.

Again. Nothing would have to be changed or converted, since one could just leave their old reviews without a star rating if they so choose.
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Tito Shivan 30 DIC 2020 a las 0:40 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Indeed. Amazon, for example, allows you to sort reviews by rating. The 2, 3 and 4 star reviews are usually the ones with the most relevant opinions.
In personally bored of how unreliable amazon ratings are.
5star: The package was delivered on time
3star: it's a crappy tool
5star: it's a crappy tool but its cheap
2star: I expected a professional tool for a cheap price and it wasn't the case
1star: mine was broken
1star: package was delivered late
Start_Running 30 DIC 2020 a las 0:40 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
Which then brings the problem of. what do you do with the literal millions of votes games already have.

That was already answered on post #140 which you quoted but left out the bit that would answer that question.

Again. Nothing would have to be changed or converted, since one could just leave their old reviews without a star rating if they so choose.
Yes and asiit was pointed out, that would, at the veryu least look odd.
The system already allows you to pyut as many stars as you want in tthe body of your review copy.

★︎★︎★︎★︎✰︎

See?

Publicado originalmente por Tito Christmas:
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Indeed. Amazon, for example, allows you to sort reviews by rating. The 2, 3 and 4 star reviews are usually the ones with the most relevant opinions.
In personally bored of how unreliable amazon ratings are.
5star: The package was delivered on time
3star: it's a crappy tool
5star: it's a crappy tool but its cheap
2star: I expected a professional tool for a cheap price and it wasn't the case
1star: mine was broken
1star: package was delivered late
And then there's that.
Última edición por Start_Running; 30 DIC 2020 a las 0:41
FOXDUDE69 30 DIC 2020 a las 1:45 
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
The system already allows you to pyut as many stars as you want in tthe body of your review copy.

★︎★︎★︎★︎✰︎

See?

That doesn't count towards an overall rating system so you've completely miss the point of the thread. We already know we can put whatever we want on the body of the review, this is not new information. The whole point of the a better rating scale is to provide a better, more accurate overall rating.

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
Publicado originalmente por Tito Christmas:
In personally bored of how unreliable amazon ratings are.
5star: The package was delivered on time
3star: it's a crappy tool
5star: it's a crappy tool but its cheap
2star: I expected a professional tool for a cheap price and it wasn't the case
1star: mine was broken
1star: package was delivered late
And then there's that.

Obviously, games on Steam don't come in physical packages so that wouldn't be an issue here. However, there is the issue of broken games and I don't see a problem with people giving games that are sold on Steam in a broken state a low rating if they want. Do you?

Also, some people factor price into their rating. If you buy a game for 5 dollars that you get 100+ hours of fun out of, some people might consider that a 5 star game. Other players might disagree that price should be a factor and those people are also free to rate those games whatever they feel.
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Nx Machina 30 DIC 2020 a las 2:20 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
The whole point of the a better rating scale is to provide a better, more accurate overall rating.

Fallout 3:

29,079 All.

22,686 Overall - Mostly Positive

22,924 - Positive

6,155 - Negative

Working as intended.

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
However, there is the issue of broken games and I don't see a problem with people giving games that are sold on Steam in a broken state a low rating if they want.

And yet you disagree with reviewers giving positive reviews of Fallout 3 as seen below.

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
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.


Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
those people are also free to rate those games whatever they feel.

As are reviewers of Fallout 3.


Maybe you should stop trying to control the message.
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FOXDUDE69 30 DIC 2020 a las 2:36 
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
However, there is the issue of broken games and I don't see a problem with people giving games that are sold on Steam in a broken state a low rating if they want.

And yet you disagree with reviewers giving positive reviews of Fallout 3 as seen below.

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
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.


Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
those people are also free to rate those games whatever they feel.

As are reviewers of Fallout 3.

Right now, since you can only give Fallout 3 a either positive or a negative so the majority ends up giving it a positive because the game is really damn good once they fix it. So Fallout 3 has the rating it has because reviewers are not free to rate it anything in between.

With a 5 star rating scale, it's not hard to imagine that some, perhaps most of these reviewers would knock down a star or two from their overall score because of the state it is in. So we'd have a much more accurate view of just how positive the overall rating really is.

So, to summarize, I want reviewers to have more freedom in what rating they can give a game, regardless if I agree with them or not because that would result in a more accurate overall rating.
Última edición por FOXDUDE69; 30 DIC 2020 a las 2:49
Start_Running 30 DIC 2020 a las 2:49 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:
The system already allows you to pyut as many stars as you want in tthe body of your review copy.

★︎★︎★︎★︎✰︎

See?

That doesn't count towards an overall rating system so you've completely miss the point of the thread
COurse it Does. You recommend or not recommend. Thats really all that matters is the positive or negative as far as the rating system. EVen amazon breaks reviews down into positive and negative. Hint: 3's are considered negative.

Its already been shown that the recommendation system as is is capable of generating a wide range (7 no less) from the recommendations. It doesn't need two different schemes for it. That just muddies the waters.

We already know we can put whatever we want on the body of the review, this is not new information. The whole point of the a better rating scale is to provide a better, more accurate overall rating.
And what makes you think the current rating system is less accurae? If anything the ambigiousness and subjective biases implicit in the 5 star system would make it less accurate, not more.

And how would one judge accuracy anyway?

Obviously, games on Steam don't come in physical packages so that wouldn't be an issue here.
But there are several more issues that people could gripe about soooo...

However, there is the issue of broken games and I don't see a problem with people giving games that are sold on Steam in a broken state a low rating if they want. Do you?
Nope, and they can already do that. Imagine that. Just look at the XIII - Remake
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1154790/XIII/

There is clearly no issue with leaving low ratings now is there.

Also, some people factor price into their rating.
All people factor price, its just a matter that some don't state it explicity.

If you buy a game for 5 dollars that you get 100+ hours of fun out of, some people might consider that a 5 star game. Other players might disagree that price should be a factor and those people are also free to rate those games whatever they feel.
ANd they already do. Those that feel that the 100hr $5 game is worth recommending, will recommend, ythose that do not will 'Not recommend'.

Agauin the degree to which one recommends can be conveyed in the body of the review.
Nx Machina 30 DIC 2020 a las 3:34 
Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
With a 5 star rating scale, it's not hard to imagine that some, perhaps most of these reviewers would knock down a star or two from their overall score because of the state it is in. So we'd have a much more accurate view of just how positive the overall rating really is.

It would not provide a more accurate overall rating when your own review? of Fallout 3 adds nothing to your proposed star rating system.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Foxdude69/recommended/22370/

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
Steam version of Fallout 3 is broken. Bethesda doesn't care. I read that the GOG version works fine. Buy it there instead.

My Rating: minus 0 stars.

My vote: Thumbs down because it is not a helpful review.


Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
So, to summarize, I want reviewers to have more freedom in what rating they can give a game, regardless if I agree with them or not because that would result in a more accurate overall rating.

You do not want reviewers to have more freedom when your own quote is in total contradiction of the expression of freedom and the current system as is.

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
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.

They can leave a positive review and it annoys you.
Última edición por Nx Machina; 30 DIC 2020 a las 3:54
Start_Running 30 DIC 2020 a las 3:59 
Publicado originalmente por Shogun Blade:

Publicado originalmente por Foxdude:
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.

They can leave a positive review and it annoys you.

because clearly any one who does the thing he doesn't like must be mistaken, forced, stupid, lazy, etc. The idea that someone else can have an equally valid opposing opinion kinda astounds many.

In the case of FO3. The very idea that someone else was able to get the game running seems foreign.
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