you shouldn't be able to post a review for a game until you have 20 achievements unlocked or 50%, whichever is smaller
emojis should not be allowed to be given to reviews
You shouldn't be able to post a review for a game until you have 20 achievements unlocked or 50%, whichever is smaller
User reviews have always been a joke on every site. Even putting aside the fact that the average person has a chimpanzee level of intelligence, most of the time this review section is used for politics/ people shitting themselves for small flaws.
Conversely, people overly praising a game for something similarly pointless.
Still, they did the correct thing by restricting it to a thumbs-up/ down system as opposed to allowing percentages. You'd receive nothing but a wave of 1's and 10's from people who want to feel like their views have an impact on the overall score.
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You'd receive nothing but a wave of 1's and 10's
If this was true the scores would actually be more accurate than they are.
If you scroll through user reviews you will frequently see some dumbass writing a review along the lines of, "Best RPG I've played in years. 7/10" or "Buggy unplayable mess, couldn't make it past part 2 4/10".
Let's be completely honest here, if they required 20 achievements or "50%", then game studios would intentionally spread out achievements in a way where you have to devote your life to the game before you can leave a review, plus some games don't have achievements.
I do feel the "play 5 minutes to review the game" time limit is a bit small.
I actually tend to write reviews after I 100% a game, but that’s mostly because I like to give games a fair handshake on what it deems “part of the game”. Obviously there’s some (Necrodancer) outliers, but if I can’t give the game a fair shake, I don’t think it deserves a review I can’t count as honest.
Which sucks because I put 100+ hours into Monster Hunter Stories 2, gave it an honest review stating it’s a 100% achievo review (strong opening but the game fucking sucks), and still receive clown emojis because games with rabid fanbases will defend slop to their dying breath, even when they have 2 hours and haven’t beaten the intro to get to see the garbage.
Why is Overwatch so overhated? Like it has a 23% rating on steam right now, but at worst it's meh. Then Marvel Rivals comes out, and it's the same game, but people love it? Even the skins are the same price. I don't get it.
Because it violated the trust of their consumers more times than can be counted on one hand.
The game itself is fine.
Let's be completely honest here, if they required 20 achievements or "50%", then game studios would intentionally spread out achievements in a way where you have to devote your life to the game before you can leave a review
I'm not following this logic at all. If anything I thought you were going to say devs would frontload achievements so you get a few dozen in the first hour. Why do you think devs dont want reviews? They do want them, the score is an advertisement
t. salty indienigger who can't make a proper game
Anything based on old capeslop got treated differently because it got inbuilt loyal customer who consume and even promote everything.
He's right though. They are the single reason the game even stayed relevant through all these years
cry about it
Some games have very esoteric achievements that you would never get through normal gameplay. I can't remember what it was but I recently looked at something I had like 80 hours in and was shocked to only have two achievements. Hell I have like 600 hours in Kenshi. Guess how many achievements I have in that. Hint: it's fucking zero.
Kenshi has achievements?
for certain games the only reviews you'll see will be written by the most passionate, absolutely schizophrenic people who have put hundreds or thousands of hours into it
anon I already made this thread you don't have to convince me more
That's dumb. I have 500+ hours in games with like ten achievements unlocked because I don't care and just play the game. Also some games don't have achievements like Far Cry 2.
You don't know this because you're young, but Blizzard used to be the best multiplayer game developer in the entire world and were held to the highest possible standard.
They are dogshit now, but many of us still carry that expectation of superb quality from anything they release. If a blizzard game isn't at least 9/10 it's worth nothing.
If you've spent 500 hours autistically doing the same things in the game over and over, how are you qualified to give a review over someone with 50 hours who has done a multitude of things such that they do have 20 achievements or 50%?
The problem with user reviews is that for every well thought out review that gets to the heart of what makes a game good, bad, fun, or not fun, there's a million fucking meme reviews in the way or retards hate-spamming or love-spamming reviews that just totally inflate the positive/negative rating for the sake of itself. for a live service game, the only function it serves is to tell you if the latest update was good or not (for recent reviews), or if the game's been on a downward spiral for a while (for overall reviews). i might as well just go on Anon Babble and post a yiik thread saying "WELL BOYS WHAT DID WE THINK" and even though 90% of the replies will be running shine memes, you might get an actual discussion about how they fucked up with it or made it better or maybe even someone making a good case for it being worse than it previously was. you're just not going to find that with steam reviews. watch me jerk off?
Why?
Because we didn't need OW2
They told us that we would get single player and a bunch of other shit and then pulled the rug . They killed OW1 because all the player base would have just reverted
You should be able to post a review just off of playing the demo. You shouldn't have to buy an obviously bad game and then refund it, to point out what you played is bad.
I think there are many more examples of what he's saying than what you're saying.
For every dipshit playing act 1 of baldur's gate 3 and then resetting for 500 hours, there's got to be like 100 people playing games like, say, paradox grand strategy where you can complete ten full playthroughs without getting a single achievement because the devs are retarded and locked it behind an unfun setting toggle.
No, that was my point
I don't think so, more often than not a game will have achievements that somewhat reflect the scope of content possible in the game. Now sometimes you can get popular games with mods locking achievements resulting in most players having literally 0 no matter hours played. That would be a much better rebuttal to me
You play slop.
You play slop and then leave slop reviews and then cry to me when you cant defend yourself after 1 post.
It's okay bro you don't have to get mad. Stick to your adventure slop and open world crafting games where you get showered with achievements. I don't care about your opinion anymore now that you've tipped your hand.
Those are game genres I never play. I'm sure you believe you always win arguments. I don't know if anyone's told you this yet but you're not a detective, you're not intuitive, you're schizo-affective
game sucks
can't tell anyone because you dont care about achievements and didn't bother fishing for them
what an objectively stupid idea
Steam reviews have been awful for a long time. The point of the thread is there needs to be some kind of oversight, what's your objectively good idea?
NTA but get rid of awards.
All steam has to do is allow you to rate a game without leaving a written review.
Sometimes, you get nutcases like this guy, 21 reviews just today
steamcommunity.com
I wish I made that review
That's in the OP
What in the goddamn
I recommend reading the manifesto on the profile, too
A curious fellow, for sure
How'd you find this guy, what the fuck. I can't be bothered to really examine this mental illness but I note that the 1st paragraph of any review will follow 1 of 3 repeat formulas and that I literally cant find any positive reviews
all positive reviews are quips and reddit memes about snorting ketchup if my review gets 100 likes
all negative reviews are about performance from jeets and similar turd worlders running 14 year old hardware
there is no winning
or my favorite
only meme and biased positive reviews
cant see any negative reviews at all
have no idea what to honestly expect from this game
game is at mixed or only mostly positive despite this
change your language preference to all languges
thousands of negative chinese reviews because the game doesn't have a proper translation or some other extremely petty reason
I was reading reviews for some game, and found one from this guy at random, and I have ever since checked in on him once every month or two.
Like, I know there's a whole lot of shit on Steam, but you'd think it'd be more worthwhile effort to find and review games you'd actually like, and promote those. It's especially funny with this guy, because he claims that PC gamers only deserve higher end 3d games, and so he's purposefully going out of his way get 2d games and leave them a negative review. The only exception I could find was like, Hollow Knight, and even that review felt like he was begrudgingly accepting that its visuals trump its "faults" at being a 2d game.
And just for the record, here's that manifesto from his profile.
Bless his heart.
i like this schizo
NOOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE AN OPINION ON A GAME UNTIL YOU 100% IT AND BUY 5 COPIES
You don't need more than the refund window to know if you like a game or not.
If I changed all my other reviews to positive, would the writing of this garbage e-book suddenly improve?
Would it stop being a crap e-book and start being a game?
buy game
launch game
alt+f4 before anything shows up on screen
leave negative review
refund
If you get Curator status you don't even need to own the games
Curators are kind of a separate thing and don't really get represented on steam storepages in any meaningful way
Even when I'm interested in checking out which curators might have recommended a game, there's a whole bunch of meme "this game is not fortnite. go play fortnite instead" curators, or informative ones about this and that (engine the game uses or whatever the fuck)
Arbitrary, putting the amount of time played is enough. If someone only has an hour or less played then it's obviously a shitpost review unless the game is that short.