Steam Rating System

Sounds neat enough to me. Also makes me wonder, because I've seen people use the recommendation feature to warn others about a bad game, so that alone can skew the results of recommendations.

I think refining the recommendation system to include negative (and possibly neutral) reviews would be enough. Some people use it for that purpose at the moment, or just general critique, yet they still add to the count of 'X people recommended this game!' regardless of whether or not they actually were using the feature to express a positive opinion.

I'd say this could hurt sales, but theres already a metacritic for most games, so maybe not. :p

I much prefer the text. I dont need people to write pages, just a blurb on why they like or dislike the game. I trust the opinion of a lot of my friends. I have bought games based on a short quip they made at the bottom.

I would like to see what they wrote on their recommendations.

i wrote up some ideas on my website in november 2011: the steam recommendation feature is mostly useless

it's mostly based off what i would do as a programmer if i had access to the data to make recommendations useful, so it might be heavy on math.

It's still pretty useless with a x/5 or x/10 or a star system really... Most people will only take the time to review it / rate it if it is:
a) Super-mega-awesome.
b) Utter shit and they want to warn people not to buy it (think WarZ etc.)

You can use the internetz to search and see if the game is good or not.Anyway it is a nice idea, but I don't think we'll see it very soon.