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If you skip the first paragraph, you already get back around 270 characters. The second paragraph can also be skipped (it adds nothing). There are more sentences in that review that can be shortened or cut.
While I can appreciate you taking your time to write a good review (as opposed to the crappy oneliners that tell nothing), there is no reason you'd need to hit the cap.
Theres no need for a major essay over every little detail and all you do is make it so people won't bother reading your review and it ends up having the same impact as a two word review saying "pretty girls" or "too boring"
indie & f2p games get so many unfair negative reviews made by how do i call em? angry kids? trolls? Yes, there's plenty of garbage out there, but why would you damage the devs, the people who actually likes the game and slowly sentence the game to death writing bs like "lol goty it change my life" or "this game gave me cancer".
indie mobas getting reviews like: "copy of LoL" seriously? on steam? rather say "copy of Dota" still its bs, you wouldnt call call of duty "doom's copy" or anything like that, the worst is that these people do it with indie & f2p with less than 50 reviews, at such point if the game already got "negative" to "very negative" reviews it wont get any new players and will die soon enough, most of indie devs wont have time to fix their game and it doesnt matter if they do it, trolls never change the review and leave it as negative.
monster hunter world had an awful launch i think it reached the "negative" status im not sure but it was close, then the game was "fixed" but the reviews did so much damage that this game still has "mixed" reviews, i bet ya, that wont change. Capcom can take the damage, indies cant.
I dont know how steam should change it, maybe like not allowing lvl 1-5 accounts write reviews, that would save F2P games from trolls.
Another option is getting upvotes in your first reviews, without enough upvotes you couldnt write a new review so people had to farm upvotes making good reviews. What about a minimum character requirement but that would make trolls & trashy people write "asdasdasdasd x10" hmm...
also its disgusting how they give bad reviews with less than 1 hour of total gameplay, maybe a minimum of 5 hours or something could help before allowing reviews?
This would help steam against devs who hire people to write fton of positive reviews, in the past steam banned those kind of devs but it does nothing against trolls who kill little games, btw whats the point of giving thumbsdown in stupid reviews when you can only see how "useful" or "funny" was for someone else? doesnt make any sense.
anyway +1 to removing 1k character limit, once i wrote a huge review with more than 2k characters and had to "reply" to my own review.
So you want people to choose between a review and a refund?
So, you’re idea is to make it so they can either review the game they hated, if they hated it, or get a refund, yeah, no
When I review a game I want to talk about both good & bad in detail if I so wish to. STEAM should allow the developer to enable reviews so that way developers can choose if they want their game reviewed.
If this is how STEAM & game developers want to handle the "review" issue then I will just simply link my full review on my FB page.
If you only link it to an offsite page, it can be banned.
Nobody is forced to only write good or bad game. Developers don't suppress negative reviews on Steam. Don't make up things.
Nobody is saying that you're not allowed to give details. I've read your reviews, they certainly can be shorter without losing detail or essence. I know how that is, as I have a tendency to use too much words to describe something. I've learned to cut it shorter, though I'm the first to admit that I need to keep working on that.
Has to be. The last review from OP is less than 1000 characters, all the others are more. The Amorous one from october is a whopping 4000+ characters, without spaces. That's according to the word/character count in MS Word.
I did this as it was the easiest way to check.
Did they change something in the last months? As OP's Amorous review is from October and so long, while the Zero Caliber one is about 1250 (without spaces) and apparently had to be continued in the comments.
There is an issue with longer reviews that doesn't let them post first. You can usually work around that with updating. The limit should be around 8000 chars (or rather codepoints).
But developers do have an issue with negative reviews. When people see those negative reviews they think twice before buying. Developers would rather have no review's so they can suck people into buying them. Also your telling me I need to start talking like a 5 year old so my reviews can be shorter? That is what I am talking about, I don't want to shorten a review to meet a limitation. I might as well say "game good buy" or "game sucks no buy". How I write my reviews is what makes my reviews different from other reviews. Copying the same style as other reviews is boring & less interesting. And I also notice I can't spell or type but what does that matter, its how I type & I will never change that.
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Not true I have linked a few things including a page to an "offsite". I even did this with a pirate vr game about how flint-lock pistols should be used & sound.
If "only linking a page" and not having anything else, it can be reported and banned.