Bring back 1-5 or 1-10 ratings.

[Hasidic Kaiju]

People say the 1-5 or 1-10 rating system is bad and inaccurate. But you know whats WAY worse? Being only able to give a game a 1 or, a 5 or 10. Some games are just ok and deserve a 6. Some games are great but not perfect and deserve an 8. Some games would be great...at a 20 dollar price, but at 60 would not recommend and therefore deserve a 5.

Please, buck the low effort and trendy thing of services having only a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Lets bring back nuance and not just GAME GOOD or GAME BAD. Lets not have an Amy Schumer "comedy" special set the standard on how we rate our products.

[Ben Lubar]

The question is not "is this the best or worst game you've ever played". The question is "do you recommend this game".

[William Shakesman]

The quality of the ASCII art that makes up the entire body of your review serves as the 1-5, 6-10 granularity

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Hasidic Kaiju:

Bring back 1-5 or 1-10 ratings.

People say the 1-5 or 1-10 rating system is bad and inaccurate. But you know whats WAY worse? Being only able to give a game a 1 or, a 5 or 10. Some games are just ok and deserve a 6. Some games are great but not perfect and deserve an 8. Some games would be great...at a 20 dollar price, but at 60 would not recommend and therefore deserve a 5.

Please, buck the low effort and trendy thing of services having only a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Lets bring back nuance and not just GAME GOOD or GAME BAD. Lets not have an Amy Schumer "comedy" special set the standard on how we rate our products.

You can't bring back what was never here.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by Hasidic Kaiju:

People say the 1-5 or 1-10 rating system is bad and inaccurate. But you know whats WAY worse? Being only able to give a game a 1 or, a 5 or 10. Some games are just ok and deserve a 6. Some games are great but not perfect and deserve an 8. Some games would be great...at a 20 dollar price, but at 60 would not recommend and therefore deserve a 5 ….

How is anyone supposed to intuit what you mean by a three or a six or a nine-and-twenty-two-sixty-fourths?

The criticism I’ve most often seen is that such granularity makes for a fake sense of precision.

[Duel Sundown]

The current rating system (do you recommend- Yes/No) is a good/fair system.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

The current system works fine as is. People can already leave a 1/10, 8/10, 69/69 in their written review if they so desire.

[Start_Running]

OP. This isn't a probl;em with the system. Its basically aproblem with your own conception of the system.

Nost other people don't see the dcurrent model as picking the extremes but rather icking halves of the scale.

No = 1-5
Yes = 6-10

You can use the text box to precisely commuinicate where you are on that half of the scale and why.

[Nx Machina]

Odd that you want something that never existed.

What is even more odd is you literally explain why you do not recommend a game and why you do recommend a game in your reviews.

[Shinoskay]

Originally posted by Hasidic Kaiju:

People say the 1-5 or 1-10 rating system is bad and inaccurate. But you know whats WAY worse? Being only able to give a game a 1 or, a 5 or 10. Some games are just ok and deserve a 6. Some games are great but not perfect and deserve an 8. Some games would be great...at a 20 dollar price, but at 60 would not recommend and therefore deserve a 5.

Please, buck the low effort and trendy thing of services having only a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Lets bring back nuance and not just GAME GOOD or GAME BAD. Lets not have an Amy Schumer "comedy" special set the standard on how we rate our products.

wait, when was it removed?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

Originally posted by Hasidic Kaiju:

People say the 1-5 or 1-10 rating system is bad and inaccurate. But you know whats WAY worse? Being only able to give a game a 1 or, a 5 or 10. Some games are just ok and deserve a 6. Some games are great but not perfect and deserve an 8. Some games would be great...at a 20 dollar price, but at 60 would not recommend and therefore deserve a 5.

Please, buck the low effort and trendy thing of services having only a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Lets bring back nuance and not just GAME GOOD or GAME BAD. Lets not have an Amy Schumer "comedy" special set the standard on how we rate our products.

wait, when was it removed?

Never as it's never been a thing on Steam. OP is confused, I think.

[M4TERIAL]

Well from UX point of view it is bad becouse a 4 means somethign compleatly diffrent to each player. Some players might enjoy a 4 rated game other will say its a waste of money. Ithink what we have right now is better sure it can be optimised but at leas you kinda know if a game is bad or not buy just glance at the review score that is already in place.

[Zarineth]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

OP. This isn't a probl;em with the system. Its basically aproblem with your own conception of the system.

Nost other people don't see the dcurrent model as picking the extremes but rather icking halves of the scale.

No = 1-5
Yes = 6-10

You can use the text box to precisely commuinicate where you are on that half of the scale and why.

To be honest, when I was still reading game reviews in my favourite gaming magazine, it was more like 1-7=no and 8-10= yes.
At the end final score didn't really matter, because if 9/10 game had something I didn't like, I wouldn't buy it either way.

At the end of the day it was review that helped me make a choice, not a number of possible scores.

[metamec]

I've always wanted a 🤷‍♂️ (meh) option between 👍 and 👎. I have certainly avoided reviewing games on the basis that I don't think they are good enough to recommend, but I don't think they are so bad that they deserve a thumbs down.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Zarineth:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

OP. This isn't a probl;em with the system. Its basically aproblem with your own conception of the system.

Nost other people don't see the dcurrent model as picking the extremes but rather icking halves of the scale.

No = 1-5
Yes = 6-10

You can use the text box to precisely commuinicate where you are on that half of the scale and why.

To be honest, when I was still reading game reviews in my favourite gaming magazine, it was more like 1-7=no and 8-10= yes.
At the end final score didn't really matter, because if 9/10 game had something I didn't like, I wouldn't buy it either way.

At the end of the day it was review that helped me make a choice, not a number of possible scores.

I just used an example.
TWhat any person uses is going to differ. which is why I think Valve went the route of recmmendations.
the numerical score basically loses a lot when you don't know what that score means to the person writing it. 7 m,ay be a great game fin your eyes, but as you point out it might be barely above 'meh' to the person writing it.

Whether or not someone recommends it, is a a fair deal less a,bigious. regardless of what numerical score they give the game, the game is at least of a quality to be worthy of their personal endorsement.

[Tanoomba]

There are several reasons why the current review system works better than a rating scale:
- As mentioned, everyone has their own personal idea of what, say, a 6/10 means, so we'd get thousands of people rating games on thousands of different scales.
- The main strength of Steam's review system is the number of reviews and associated score aggregate. Valve wants as many people as possible to write reviews, so they made the system as simple and accessible as possible. While many people may not have the inclination or patience to consider where their opinion of a game lies on a scale of 1 to 10, they can much more easily decide if they simply recommend the game or not.
- Any rating scale is going to be heavily abused by people who want their reviews to have the highest possible impact on the aggregate. There would be a heavy reliance on 10s and 0s, while anyone not trying to game the system will essentially have their reviews nerfed. We see this happen all the time on the user end of Metacritic.