Game reviews - minimum time required

[carbonfibre]

Only allow game reviews after 5 hours of play. Ridiculous how many reviews there are under an hour.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by carbonfibre:

Game reviews - minimum time required

Only allow game reviews after 5 hours of play. Ridiculous how many reviews there are under an hour.

Refund requirements is 2 hours.

[nullable]

You're free to review games after 5 hours. Trying to control opinions with time limits is a non-starter. Since play time is visible, everyone can ignore or accept those reviews as they see fit.

Also five hours is arbitrary. It may not take you five hours to decide if you like a game or not, or have opinions, and those opinions aren't less valid. Some games aren't five hours long, so... that would be a problem.

You're welcome to your opinion that low hour reviews are ridiculous. There's no reason the world ought to revolve around those values though. After all we've survived decades without arbitrary time limits, and ridiculous reviews. So maybe it's not a problem that needs solving.

[Ettanin]

Time requirements for reviews make the loss of the right to refund a retaliatory weapon. Either you accept being silenced about a bad deal or you lose your privilege to get your money back. Sounds like blackmailing to me.

Therefore, a review, good or bad, must be possible before two hours of playtime and before 14 days after purchase have passed.

[carbonfibre]

some fair points. I tend to set to the 10 hours and above. Would be nice if this could be set as default which would at least remove those lower reviews from my view.

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by carbonfibre:

some fair points. I tend to set to the 10 hours and above. Would be nice if this could be set as default which would at least remove those lower reviews from my view.

Then your suggestion should be the ability to set a default review filter instead of forcing a minimum playtime for everyone.

[eram]

5 hours is too little, you can go away for the day and idle to get 5 hours for the review. Make it 500 hours.

[asdf]

good

[The End]

Originally posted by carbonfibre:

Only allow game reviews after 5 hours of play.

Absolutely not, people who buy a game have all right to post their opinion after 5min. Could be the game is broken or simply not their cup of tea.

Thanks but no thanks.

[Yzal]

nah

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

Originally posted by carbonfibre:

some fair points. I tend to set to the 10 hours and above. Would be nice if this could be set as default which would at least remove those lower reviews from my view.

Then your suggestion should be the ability to set a default review filter instead of forcing a minimum playtime for everyone.

Yeah, you can already set the filters for playtime: https://prnt.sc/5IpO0nvmCPXy, so the suggestion should be a "Save these settings" in Store Preferences for reviews. Choose your playtime range, save that as your default store setting for reviews. Which actually would be nice, so you don;t have to set it for each store page.

[joridiculous]

That would mean at least half of the game of steam wouldn't not get any reviews at all since they are 2 hours or less.