A "beg" to steam

[W.A. the Anum]

I love reviews. Some people, like me (at least since a year or longer), really put a lot effort into them, nearly calling out every pro and cos about the games, critics and how you could change them. They can be pretty much informative and actually helps the creators of the game(s) to change maybe "that" or work on the said missing contents, changing stuff and maybe even improve their game.

Other people write reviews like this (IMPORTANT: original -quoted- reviews from serveral games):

"Boobs the Visual Novel"

"LMAO"

" ..."

"Better than Fallout 4"

"me friendly me friendly!!!!!!!"

"cool"

"cool game would play again "

"best "

"How do i refund"

"This game is really boring. Gonna refund. "



I could go on but i guess you understand what i try to show you guys...
I opend this thread for people with at least some braincells and really do put effort into their reviews and even overworking them from time to time...or maybe even had talks with the devs, helping them improve their "work" and stuff like.

Steam has a problem. The review system is bad. really bad. VERY bad if you can create such "reviews" just to give games which might be bad/memes/etc such free upvotes.
Thats not "why" a review system is build for, it should be really there to "warn" or "show" people...or in other words gives "infos" to the player base.

Not "rofl" around it or "lmao" the game, thats not a review. I beg steam to add something like a minimum on letters so that people "have to" write a longer review, even if i know it might be just a drop of water on a hot stone and people ending up copy pasting just "such" stuff...

But please, change the review system. its bad. Or delete such "review" nonsense. They only give bad games good reviews they dont belong or they dont change devs in the slightest.

Im srs here, change it, please...(i hope they read it but i guess they never will...)

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

not to be a ♥♥♥♥ but is it that hard to shift through ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Doober Del Le Goober XVI:

not to be a ♥♥♥♥ but is it that hard to shift through ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

shifting though is a easy thing but again, if you have as sample a game which is upvoted x times for "very much prositive" and more than half of this "prositive" reviews are "SUCH" reviews...

I guess you know what i try to say here.

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

shifting though is a easy thing but again, if you have as sample a game which is upvoted x times for "very much prositive" and more than half of this "prositive" reviews are "SUCH" reviews...

I guess you know what i try to say here.

I do...to a point,but look at it this way: there still telling other players that they should play this game even though the only line is.."cool game would play again"

I think the bigger promblem on steam are the people who comically review games as positive even when the game and everyone else says it bad

[Paratweet]

To be fair, Steam already has a form of 'proper' reviews in the form of Curators. If you find yourself curators within the genres of your interest (there are many with broad or niche qualities) you can be assured that you've got yourself people that you can trust. Does it mean that they'll review the games you're interested in? Not neccesarily but it is always possible to read the reviews of curators even if you're not subscribed to them.

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Doober Del Le Goober XVI:

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

shifting though is a easy thing but again, if you have as sample a game which is upvoted x times for "very much prositive" and more than half of this "prositive" reviews are "SUCH" reviews...

I guess you know what i try to say here.

I do...to a point,but look at it this way: there still saying to other players that they should play this game even though the only line is.."cool game would play again"

but again, is it a review? If i tell that a friend, yes, i understand that but review worth? No, really dude, its not.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Hobojohnny:

To be fair, Steam already has a form of 'proper' reviews in the form of Curators. If you find yourself curators within the genres of your interest (there are many with broad or niche qualities) you can be assured that you've got yourself people that you can trust. Does it mean that they'll review the games you're interested in? Not neccesarily but it is always possible to read the reviews of curators even if you're not subscribed to them.

yea but sadly that doesnt change the fact that this reviews will be written and upvoting a game (or downvoting) which might doesnt deserves it or stuff like, which IS the sad factor.

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

but again, is it a review? If i tell that a friend, yes, i understand that but review worth? No, really dude, its not.

of course it’s not but,(for me anyways) the non-reviewer still gave a thumbs up that boosted the game steam score and that’s probably a bigger draw in then any review

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Doober Del Le Goober XVI:

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

but again, is it a review? If i tell that a friend, yes, i understand that but review worth? No, really dude, its not.

of course it’s not but,(for me anyways) the non-reviewer still gave a thumbs up that boosted the game steam score and that’s probably a bigger draw in then any review

that is again objective or situational from the game. still i gotcha but than again, it might helps OR not, again, situational.

[Paratweet]

I'll give it to you like this: The site runs on a mob mentality. It won't be stopped, it can't be stopped, the balances already in place haven't changed a thing.

A vetting process for reviews wouldn't do any good. It'd be too much for Valve to handle which means they'd outsource the work to unpaid mods. Cue Jim Sterling making a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ video about the debacle two weeks later about how the mods are playing favorites or not doing their job properly.

Stick with Curators, Youtube reviewers, etc if youi want proper reviews. It's not that hard to become informed on almost any game these days.

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Hobojohnny:

I'll give it to you like this: The site runs on a mob mentality. It won't be stopped, it can't be stopped, the balances already in place haven't changed a thing.

A vetting process for reviews wouldn't do any good. It'd be too much for Valve to handle which means they'd outsource the work to unpaid mods. Cue Jim Sterling making a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ video about the debacle two weeks later about how the mods are playing favorites or not doing their job properly.

Stick with Curators, Youtube reviewers, etc if youi want proper reviews. It's not that hard to become informed on almost any game these days.

Sadly is all what you said is already known to me. The real sad part is actually what you said about Valve, which is dang right...

[cinedine]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Doober Del Le Goober XVI:

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

but again, is it a review? If i tell that a friend, yes, i understand that but review worth? No, really dude, its not.

of course it’s not but,(for me anyways) the non-reviewer still gave a thumbs up that boosted the game steam score and that’s probably a bigger draw in then any review

And why should they not? Where does it indicate they do not honestly like the game? You see the same non-content reviews on the negative side. "uninstall works 10/10".

The biggest problem is that Steam requires you to leave a text with your "voting".

[Start_Running]

Op./ Users are not pros. and generally speaking, each will just give their opinion. They have the right to do so. Nothing wrong with that.

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Start_Running:

Op./ Users are not pros. and generally speaking, each will just give their opinion. They have the right to do so. Nothing wrong with that.

again, nothing wrong with that but a review system is for reviews, not "opinion" like comments or ♥♥♥♥♥ n giggles dude. it should be used for real, if you read my thread carefully. It also has nothing todo to be a "pro" if you write at least "some" letters which shows you a real good opinion...but "those" i quoted are nothing, not even a good or explained opinion.

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Riedy:

No. Every user is allowed to share their opinions about a game however they please, even if it is just a really dumb joke. A good review will always make it to the top, but every review matters. They all accumulate to the overall score of the game. Honestly, Steam should add an option to (not) recommend a game without having to add text to it. Not everyone is an experienced writer. They should still be allowed to share their feelings about any game they've played.

"..." is not a review either a feeling...

again you might be right but, again, those a not reviews and im talking about the review system. reviews are suppost to be giving infos, critics and stuff like. what you mean are recommendations what is something else.

[Black Blade]

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

"..." is not a review either a feeling...

again you might be right but, again, those a not reviews and im talking about the review system. reviews are suppost to be giving infos, critics and stuff like. what you mean are recommendations what is something else.

I do need to ask, what does it matter?
I mean if people vote helpful not helpful like there suppose to, then that review will go into the never seen again area of the hub, and you only see the reviews that really matter

[W.A. the Anum]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Black Blade:

Oprindeligt skrevet af W.A. the Anum:

"..." is not a review either a feeling...

again you might be right but, again, those a not reviews and im talking about the review system. reviews are suppost to be giving infos, critics and stuff like. what you mean are recommendations what is something else.

I do need to ask, what does it matter?
I mean if people vote helpful not helpful like there suppose to, then that review will go into the never seen again area of the hub, and you only see the reviews that really matter

as i said already i quote

"They only give bad games good reviews they dont belong or they dont change devs in the slightest."

"shifting though is a easy thing but again, if you have as sample a game which is upvoted x times for "very much prositive" and more than half of this "prositive" reviews are "SUCH" reviews...

I guess you know what i try to say here."

"that is again objective or situational from the game. [...] it might helps OR not, again, situational."


or in other words, abusing a review system for ♥♥♥♥♥ n giggles is not why a review system exists.