I think the steam review is a nice plus to choose your games wisely (but not only), but one thing i hate is these guys/gals who plays the game for a few minutes or at most a couple of hours and quickly write an half-ass review with a video of their gameplay on their youtube channel. If i'd wanted to check videos of gameplay i'd directly search for them on youtube...

So anyway here are a few questions:

1/ Am I the only one who downvote the reviews without reading them as long as i see a video link in it?
2/ Do some of you actually watch these videos?
3/ What do you think of people posting youtube link on steam review?

It's a post I wanted to write for some time coz this trend really bothers me.

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I also hate it. I don't watch it. They just do it because they want traffic for their channel (or in one case, linking their own review site filled with adverts).

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If there's an actual review and THEN a video, I think most of us would be fine, but like Shawei said, they generally half-ass them. Most of them just have some sort of introduction, such as: "The game was good, insert minor details, check out my youtube for more."

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I just ignore them

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Downvote them, that's all you can do to help pushing the useless reviews out of the "most helpful" list instead of the constructive and objective reviews.

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  1. I ignore them.
  2. Nope, I never watch them.
  3. I think the reviewer is just hunting for more video views.
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If I wanted a gameplay,I'd search youtube for it. Some reviews with videos are actually decent,others are just bs farming views,so I don't outright dismiss those; However,if there is another review of adequate length I will prefer it. I wish the option to add youtube links to reviews was removed.

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It's self advertising - i just ignore it.

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Closed 9 years ago by Shawei.