1/9/2024 0 Comments 2 take it or leave it meme![]() If they are not, they are not only useless but actually un-helpful as they clog up a game's store page, hiding any actually relevant user-provided information about it. ![]() Anything that small cannot possibly qualify as a helpful review, and reviews are supposed to be helpful. Most kids probably don't want to write anything anyway, so this should be the easiest way to save them a little time and everyone else much more.Ģ - Increase the requirements to make a review eligible for publishing.įive words, or whatever the current minimum requirement is, is not doing the trick. Here are my suggestions to deal with this problem:ġ - Allow users to simply recommend (or not) a game, without having to write anything about it. If enough, they may, and hopefully will, do something about it. Steam can correlate the lowering quality of reviews with sales, refund requests and store pages' traffic to ascertain how much impact it has been having on their activities and income. From Steam's perspective, a ton of useless data is being store and, even though it's essentially just plain text, by sheer quantity it might still be enough to waste relevant storage capacity, which costs money. ![]() They also rout traffic away from Steam, require more time and work to be found, and are potentially biased by financial interests.įrom a player's perspective, a tool that should be used to help us decide whether to buy a game or not and how much would be fair to pay for it has been broken and no longer fulfills its purpose, making any decision more difficult. Those are fairly scarce, thus not providing enough different perspectives. To find out what a game is about, how it works, whether it's good or not and to whom it may appeal, we now have to look for an external review online. And things will only get worse in the future - this problem is not going away on its own. We have come to a point where far too many people are unable to distinguish between something that is funny and something that is useful. Most of them are "jokes" made by 6 year-olds, often copy-pasted, never providing any relevant information about the game itself and always upvoted as "helpful" by the reviewer's peers. Lately, it has been very hard to find a single helpful review on any game's store page. ![]() The social networking generations finally learned how to "write" and this accident's effects have been being felt on Steam for a while, now. Steam's review system is no longer achieving its intended goal. ![]()
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