Which reviews do you trust more

[Coyote]

When planning on purchasing a game which reviews do you find to be best in helping you make a decision? For me I prefer the negative reviews because the hater reviews are obvious and can be ignored where the legit complaints let me know any potential problem with the game. I don't tend to trust positive reviews because it feels like a lot of them are just fanboys/girls ( I don't discriminate) or I feel like they could be a ghost writer published by developers for sales. Which Reviews do you trust more?

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Messaggio originale di Serell:

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

id say the best way is to have proffesional reviewers who dont have an agenda, not trusting the mass userbase of steam as i wouldn't trust the average person to clean my toilet let alone write a review

but if your happy with it keep going

Or just read professional reviews and steam reviews. You act as if every steam user is an evil evil person, who can't tell left from right. I've read bad steam reviews, but I've also read some excellent, well-written reviews on steam. You just have to skim through to find them.

depends which professional reviews. anything from the mainstream media, polygon cuckaku, rock paper shotgun etc is ♥♥♥♥, has a political agenda and should be ignored. other smaller sites like nichegamer andn lewdgamer are more trustable.

[Start_Running]

Messaggio originale di Coyote:

I agree reading both reviews gives you the whole picture. However I just find the negative reviews tend to be more helpful. The negative ones use the, "I like this game but..." where the positive reviews feel like that Simpson episode where Homer becomes a food critic and that one critic goes, "Everything's a rave! 11/10 wth is that!?!" But anyways based on your original reply is it safe to assume you check both positive and negative?

That's a bit of confirmation vbioas. Generally. People want to be aware of potential issues or problems and so consider information that makes them aware of such, more helpful than information that does.

I will say that is why I qualified my statement with well written. A well written positive review will generally mention some of the pitfalls just as a well written negative review will mention a few positives.
Take five of each and you will have a general picture of gripes and greatness.

[Start_Running]

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

id say the best way is to have proffesional reviewers who dont have an agenda, not trusting the mass userbase of steam as i wouldn't trust the average person to clean my toilet let alone write a review

but if your happy with it keep going

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

[Cablenexus]

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

id say the best way is to have proffesional reviewers who dont have an agenda, not trusting the mass userbase of steam as i wouldn't trust the average person to clean my toilet let alone write a review

but if your happy with it keep going

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

I'm always curious who those reviewers are that receive free copies.
I play games since 1985, have all boxed copies of games since 1990.
500 games on Steam, 200 on GoG and some on third world distribution platforms.
I wrote around 50 reviews in my life, mostly for the games I like since I don't bother writing reviews for games I dislike (most of the time, except it was a huge dissapointment for what I expected) and I NEVER received a FREE copy of ANY game. Not even a DLC

What am I doing wrong???

[Start_Running]

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

I'm always curious who those reviewers are that receive free copies.
I play games since 1985, have all boxed copies of games since 1990.
500 games on Steam, 200 on GoG and some on third world distribution platforms.
I wrote around 50 reviews in my life, mostly for the games I like since I don't bother writing reviews for games I dislike (most of the time, except it was a huge dissapointment for what I expected) and I NEVER received a FREE copy of ANY game. Not even a DLC

What am I doing wrong???

Your communication skills are lacking. That is all.

[Purple Tentacle]

Messaggio originale di Serell:

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

id say the best way is to have proffesional reviewers who dont have an agenda, not trusting the mass userbase of steam as i wouldn't trust the average person to clean my toilet let alone write a review

but if your happy with it keep going

Or just read professional reviews and steam reviews. You act as if every steam user is an evil evil person, who can't tell left from right. I've read bad steam reviews, but I've also read some excellent, well-written reviews on steam. You just have to skim through to find them.

why would i read steam reviews, yes there are probably a small minority that are good but theres no way to find them or to even know there good in the first place as you cant decide that from 1 review alone

[Cablenexus]

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

I'm always curious who those reviewers are that receive free copies.
I play games since 1985, have all boxed copies of games since 1990.
500 games on Steam, 200 on GoG and some on third world distribution platforms.
I wrote around 50 reviews in my life, mostly for the games I like since I don't bother writing reviews for games I dislike (most of the time, except it was a huge dissapointment for what I expected) and I NEVER received a FREE copy of ANY game. Not even a DLC

What am I doing wrong???

Your communication skills are lacking. That is all.

Well yours are even more worse so you can't help me getting those free copies either.

Anyway. If I like a game and I like to play it and want to support a developer and / or publisher, even if "reviewing" was my professional job I should buy the game

[Purple Tentacle]

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

I'm always curious who those reviewers are that receive free copies.
I play games since 1985, have all boxed copies of games since 1990.
500 games on Steam, 200 on GoG and some on third world distribution platforms.
I wrote around 50 reviews in my life, mostly for the games I like since I don't bother writing reviews for games I dislike (most of the time, except it was a huge dissapointment for what I expected) and I NEVER received a FREE copy of ANY game. Not even a DLC

What am I doing wrong???

if your writing your reviews on steam then that is exactly what your doing wrong. no publisher cares what 1 person is going to write in a steam review.

and no im not going to tell you who i trust as thats my personal opinion, everyone will have their own

[Cablenexus]

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

I'm always curious who those reviewers are that receive free copies.
I play games since 1985, have all boxed copies of games since 1990.
500 games on Steam, 200 on GoG and some on third world distribution platforms.
I wrote around 50 reviews in my life, mostly for the games I like since I don't bother writing reviews for games I dislike (most of the time, except it was a huge dissapointment for what I expected) and I NEVER received a FREE copy of ANY game. Not even a DLC

What am I doing wrong???

if your writing your reviews on steam then that is exactly what your doing wrong. no publisher cares what 1 person is going to write in a steam review.

and no im not going to tell you who i trust as thats my personal opinion, everyone will have their own

Well Steam recently changed the whole system because these people exist...

[Purple Tentacle]

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

id say the best way is to have proffesional reviewers who dont have an agenda, not trusting the mass userbase of steam as i wouldn't trust the average person to clean my toilet let alone write a review

but if your happy with it keep going

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

dont get me wrong, everyone, absolutly everyone has an agenda in reviews its just how big of an agenda it is. i have a few sources i will read reviews from, these are from people whos opinions have more or less matched my own for a while so if im looking at a game and none of them are bringing up red flags to me then im going to trust them. i have never been let down like this so far

now if someone reviews a game on steam he automatically has more of an agenda than anyone of these people i trust has he or she has spent money on the game (and not in a business expense kind of way) i have no idea if i agree with this person views in general as there no way for me to read previous reviews afaik. theres so many other reasons why i wouldn't trust i review written by a steam user also, like do they know what there talking about for a start.

this is my opinion other people will have others

[Purple Tentacle]

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

if your writing your reviews on steam then that is exactly what your doing wrong. no publisher cares what 1 person is going to write in a steam review.

and no im not going to tell you who i trust as thats my personal opinion, everyone will have their own

Well Steam recently changed the whole system because these people exist...

no steam changed the system because people were openly gaming the system to get good reviews. you are inadvertedtly strengthing my point about not trusting reviews off of steam as you dont know what your talking about on that subject why would i listen to you about anything else ?

[Cablenexus]

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

Messaggio originale di Start_Running:

People with agendas tend to be very good at hiding agendas. I mean never mind that many reviewers like to keep in the good books of publisher since being able to snag an advance review copy can make the difference between your review being topical and being fuifth across the finish line.

Also pros have an entirely different mindset when playing. FOr a pro reviewer. OPlay the game is their 9-5. For consumers playing the game is what we try to make for after our 9-5.

dont get me wrong, everyone, absolutly everyone has an agenda in reviews its just how big of an agenda it is. i have a few sources i will read reviews from, these are from people whos opinions have more or less matched my own for a while so if im looking at a game and none of them are bringing up red flags to me then im going to trust them. i have never been let down like this so far

now if someone reviews a game on steam he automatically has more of an agenda than anyone of these people i trust has he or she has spent money on the game (and not in a business expense kind of way) i have no idea if i agree with this person views in general as there no way for me to read previous reviews afaik. theres so many other reasons why i wouldn't trust i review written by a steam user also, like do they know what there talking about for a start.

this is my opinion other people will have others

I think it very much depends on genres of games you play. I like to go for 4x TBS strategy games to a website from which I know they review games in that genre many years. Same for some YT stardom and even friends in my Steam list.
I see the genre they play, other games they reviewed and know if they received the copy from the publisher or paid real money for it.
I actually expect people threat my own reviews the same way.
If I review a FPS tomorrow it will be my first and agree with everyone who thinks it's of less value.
It's all more complicated than it seems.

[Coyote]

I wonder about those people where it states they got the product for free but I assumed that maybe someone traded them that game in the steam trading. I'm still new to this only been around a year so I could be wrong. However I have seen quite a few negative reviews by people who got it that way. As someone stated earlier about YouTube reviews I personally trust those the least as there have been so many scandals of YouTubers neglecting to inform their viewers in the description or in the video whether it was a paid advertisement one of them being the Swedish millionaire hotdog vendor.

[Cablenexus]

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

Messaggio originale di Cablenexus:

Well Steam recently changed the whole system because these people exist...

no steam changed the system because people were openly gaming the system to get good reviews. you are inadvertedtly strengthing my point about not trusting reviews off of steam as you dont know what your talking about on that subject why would i listen to you about anything else ?

Sorry I was writing a serious comment above, but see I'm already dimissed by you because I don't know what I'm talking about. Enjoy the discussion with others guy!

[Serell]

Messaggio originale di Purple Tentacle:

Messaggio originale di Serell:

Or just read professional reviews and steam reviews. You act as if every steam user is an evil evil person, who can't tell left from right. I've read bad steam reviews, but I've also read some excellent, well-written reviews on steam. You just have to skim through to find them.

why would i read steam reviews, yes there are probably a small minority that are good but theres no way to find them or to even know there good in the first place as you cant decide that from 1 review alone

You can tell by what and how they write... How can you tell how good a professional review is? It's the same thing. You analyze the content and how it is presented.