I’m not against the idea of user reviews. When they’re used for their intended purpose, they can be beneficial, helping highlight specific issues in games that might not be made clear in more general critical reviews, or brining a spotlight to games that haven’t attracted much media coverage. They’re good for gauging general user sentiment, which is useful in these “live service” days where games often change after they’ve been released. In an ideal world, they’re a useful consumer tool.
Unfortunately, they’re often used by consumers tools for several reasons that might have little to do with the games themselves. They can be used as a form of protest against company policies, or political ideologies. While I understand and sympathise with that because it’s one of the few outlets available to consumers for making a stand against corporate overlords, they can muddy the waters, which isn’t really fail to the people who’ve toiled to make the actual games. It’s on of the reasons that Valve made changes to its user reviews, where floods of negative reviews – known as review bombing – wouldn’t affect the general sentiment or ranking.
Now they’re trying to improve user reviews a little more. Sometimes, people play a game for a short time, leaving reviews that might not accurately represent the state of a game as it stands after a few patches, or after players have sunk more time into them. Now, Steam will nudge players who’ve played more of a game they’ve already reviewed, asking them if they’d like to update their reviews. It’s not obtrusive, but it’s a nice feature that was added at the request of developers.
Last Updated: October 30, 2019
HvR
October 30, 2019 at 13:07
More features are great as long as this doesn’t turn Steam into a CellC telemarketers call center “nudging” you every time you open it.
Something that is interesting; the real entitled group in the gaming world are devs and publishers.
If you do not want a crapload of negative reviews at launch STOP making shipping unfinished and broken games the new norm.
If you do not want to be politically motivated review bombed BE apolitical.
If you do not want backlash STOP making your consumer base the enemy.
HvR
October 30, 2019 at 13:07
More features are great as long as this doesn’t turn Steam into a CellC telemarketers call center “nudging” you every time you open it.
Something that is interesting; the real entitled group in the gaming world are devs and publishers.
If you do not want a crapload of negative reviews at launch STOP making shipping unfinished and broken games the new norm.
If you do not want to be politically motivated review bombed BE apolitical.
If you do not want backlash STOP making your consumer base the enemy.
G8crasha
October 30, 2019 at 15:16
One could argue that there would be no need to backtrack on a review if the developer had made a game that did not justify bad reviews in the first place (Obviously with review bombing that’s another story)!
G8crasha
October 30, 2019 at 15:16
One could argue that there would be no need to backtrack on a review if the developer had made a game that did not justify bad reviews in the first place (Obviously with review bombing that’s another story)!
Pariah
October 30, 2019 at 12:57
This is a great feature tbh. Awesome.
Will the updated reviews specify that they’ve been updated or will users have to manually mention that as before?
HvR
October 30, 2019 at 13:07
More features are great as long as this doesn’t turn Steam into a CellC telemarketers call center “nudging” you every time you open it.
Something that is interesting; the real entitled group in the gaming world are devs and publishers.
If you do not want a crapload of negative reviews at launch STOP making shipping unfinished and broken games the new norm.
If you do not want to be politically motivated review bombed BE apolitical.
If you do not want backlash STOP making your consumer base the enemy.
Pariah
October 30, 2019 at 13:17
Corporations do not have the luxury of being apolitical. In an ideal world, maybe. But then, most of the shit that’s an issue in the political space wouldn’t be an issue to begin with.
Yozzie
October 30, 2019 at 13:27
Hey… Some of us actually do go back and update reviews.
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Admiral Chief
October 30, 2019 at 13:36
Dutch nogal
Hammersteyn
October 30, 2019 at 15:41
LOL!
G8crasha
October 30, 2019 at 15:16
One could argue that there would be no need to backtrack on a review if the developer had made a game that did not justify bad reviews in the first place (Obviously with review bombing that’s another story)!