Make it impossible to not recommend a game if you have over 500 hours in it

[Rockets]

If someone has 500 hours in a game, they should not be able to recommend against it.

[MonkehMaster]

引用自 Badass Rockets：

引用自 MonkehMaster：

this coming from someone who has some of the worst views and lame reviews i have read....

example being

You don't like that review? I think it is honest and a positive review.

so after giving it a negative review and out of nowhere you felt like playing said crappy game, that somehow made the game magically become recommend and worth telling people to buy it?

you got a twisted way of thinking and no one in their right mind would agree with your suggestion.

引用自 Badass Rockets：

If someone plays a game 500 hours, it is not disputable that it should have got a good review from that person.

wrong, there are loads of reasons a game can get a negative review long after putting tons of hours into it, some being what others have mentioned here, like drastic changes of a game turning it into something you dont like playing, removing stuff in the game to sell it as dlc, microtransactions being added, pay to win mechanics being added, devs scraping the game and shutting down their servers so no one can play it, devs doing other things to back stab their community, among many other things that could fill a list.

you have no rights to tell anyone how, when or why they should give a specific review and steam or game devs or where ever you can leave reviews, would even think of implementing something like that, sorry to tell ya.

[Slateven]

so why are people cheating to them companion after decade of marriage? i used enjoy a game call squad have 700+hour into it and i completely remove from my library in the last year because the dev go woke and ban people who say marry Christmas in their community and recently they sold them self to a china company so yeah

[Blupanda]

引用自 Start_Running：

引用自 Badass Rockets：

If someone plays a game 500 hours, it is not disputable that it should have got a good review from that person.

Unless the game developers introduced a a cash store and P2W grind mechanics 498 hours in...
You seem to think of games as fixed in stone when they are not. These days its not uncommon for a dev to add, change, or even remove content from a game years after release and said alterations can indeed change a recommend to a not recommend just as they can change a not recommend into a recommend.

Think of it like a restaurant. You eat there. You love it. Give it 5/5 stars and eat there whenecver you can...then after some year you sit down to eat and find the food now tastes completely bland. Turns out the restaurant has come yunder new management and said management has fired all the old kitchen staff and and hired their down unluck brothers who don't know any seasoning beyond salt and peopper to be the new cooks.

You would reasonably change your review of that restaurant to 1/5 would you not?

Yes I agree with this analogy. Things can change over time. Sometimes worse, sometimes better.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 Badass Rockets：

If someone plays a game 500 hours, it is not disputable that it should have got a good review from that person.

I had over 500 hours in Payday 2 the moment they decided to update the game to add Pay-to-Win microtransactions. Of course I did proceed to give it a negative review despite my playtime.
(The situation got reverted over time and so did my review again)

I have over 500 hours in Destiny 2 (and I still actively play it) and I'd still review it negatively because of how terrible the play experience is for new players joining in (Which are the people who will be reading reviews.)

Games change having a lot of hours played in the past is no guarantee that hours played in the future will be as enjoyable for me or for anyone trying to join the game the day after tomorrow.

[Pscht]

This whole thing reminds me of Ebay scammers and how they do a lot of genuine transactions first to get good reviews, only to then start scamming people until the bad feedback gets too much, rinse and repeat.

Actually on topic, I have over 1000 hours in Rocket League. Stopped playing because of certain changes. Would definitely NOT recommend. Then again, I don't write reviews that would get drowned out by all the memes and other crap anyway.

[Ducks on Fire]

The fact that game devs are allowed to make major changes to a game years after release is reason enough to say no to this.

[Unexpected]

this is a bad idea for too many reasons to list, i will simplify it and say humans change our opinions a lot, and a game can change too, someone can play a good game for years, devs change one thing and they are embittered veterans

[Wai]

引用自 MiniHerc：

引用自 Wai：

If a time limit is to be imposed, it should be the opposite end - nobody with less than 50 hours should be able to leave a review, good or bad. After all, it could be argued that they have not had time to properly assess the strengths and weaknesses of the game. As a player, I don't bother to read reviews from unqualified players. (10 hours played - "Brilliant game" - Oh Yeah !)

Some games only have around 2 hours of content. Zero point in playing for more than 10.

touché

But, I stand by my comment - if you can't get more than a couple hours of play then it sure ain't a game worth playing or reviewing. Sorry, I generalised too much by giving hours. My point was simply that people who have barely played a game are very unlikely to be able to give a worthwhile review so why should they be permitted but experienced players be banned from giving reviews.

The example in brackets was simply a facetious construct, I have see Recommendations where the play time is measured in minutes!

[Tanoomba]

引用自 Wai：

But, I stand by my comment - if you can't get more than a couple hours of play then it sure ain't a game worth playing or reviewing.

That's nonsense. I happen to love short games and often see the fact that I can do everything I want to do with them within a couple of hours as a plus. I've written positive reviews for games I've spent less than a couple of hours with and I stand by those reviews. It's not for you to decide what's "worth playing or reviewing".

[Start_Running]

引用自 Tanoomba：

引用自 Wai：

But, I stand by my comment - if you can't get more than a couple hours of play then it sure ain't a game worth playing or reviewing.

That's nonsense. I happen to love short games and often see the fact that I can do everything I want to do with them within a couple of hours as a plus. I've written positive reviews for games I've spent less than a couple of hours with and I stand by those reviews. It's not for you to decide what's "worth playing or reviewing".

That and a good game can frequently grab you right away.. I mean I didn't have to play Rogue Legacy long to know that this was mah jam.

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Let's say I had 500 hours in Half-Life Source before Valve went and utterly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up in 2013 with the SteamPipe update. Am I not allowed to no longer recommend a game that is nearly unplayable now?

[Start_Running]

引用自 Lily McFluffy Butt：

Let's say I had 500 hours in Half-Life Source before Valve went and utterly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up in 2013 with the SteamPipe update. Am I not allowed to no longer recommend a game that is nearly unplayable now?

Wait wait wait...
You're telling me there was a time when HL source was actually Good?!

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 Wai：

if you can't get more than a couple hours of play then it sure ain't a game worth playing or reviewing.

If a game isn't worth playing, it deserves a "not recommend" review. No matter how much time someone played it.

It's fine if you only want to look at reviews with more hours, there are filters for that: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2667102909

Other people like to view other reviews. Me, I actually prefer negative reviews with shorter playtime. I want to know why people stopped playing a game and whether those issues are an issue for me as well.

[Start_Running]

Ditto. I don't specifically look for the shorter playtime ones but I do peek at the play time since it tells me whether or not the issue was bad enough to make the person stop playing.

By the time I've scriolled down to the reviews I've already seen plenty of things to make me want to buy the game (otherwise I'd have stopped scrolling and left the store page). So I'm miore curious about reasons to not get it.

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

If a game isn't worth playing, it deserves a "not recommend" review. No matter how much time someone played it.

And reviews are made for people who are going to start playing the game NOW.
I have over two thousand hours in TF2. But no one can now play the game it was when it made me sink 2000 hours in it (Paid game, no F2P, no microtransactions, lots of online communities). They're going to play the game it's now (F2P, with microtransactions, matchmaking oriented...)