Good changes
I imediatly saw a playful meme/game being abused- considering how many joke reviews steam have (to the point they needed to filter then) how long would it take for reviewers typing some funny or inside-joke on many reviews? Heck if steam does that this kind of trend will be rolling by the end of the very same day.
It could be wonderful seing things like 'Pay2Win', 'buy on sale' and such poping as most used- but how useful would be a huge 'Mustache' and 'NotMario' alongside those?
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well, some may still think otherwise but gaben and steam are not your friends.
they're in for the money, like everybody else.
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I just hope they keep the old system of viewing reviews as well. Since this new thing is such shit if you ask me.. -.-
I know that there are people that will love this, but this only opens up more space for buying reviews.. How the fluf can steam be so stupid not to get that O.o
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I have mixed feelings about the number of reviews being determined by rating. I played some game with a relatively small community that got a change perceived as bad and a lot of people flooded the game with negative reviews basically saying "X changed, game now sucks". But most people never took the time to show appreciation for the game and review it positively prior to the change, nor bothered pointing out anything good the game still has that made they play it for as long as they did. That's a completely emotional way of rating games and it does not help the community to make the right decision about getting into a game at all.
On the other hand, I do see the part about less known games having a harder time now. What I hope is that they see this issue and make a compromise, e.g. ignoring the negative results if they're old enough, that would be a sensible thing to do IMO.
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I've noticed reviews are a bit shit recently, with "mostly positive" showing despite a sea of red.
Time to element-hide the entire review panel and just google titles I might be interested in.
I've already hidden vast sections of the Steam store like queues, curators, recommended etc etc. GG Valve. Idiots.
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Gooooosh, I was afraid of that. I was really confused when I saw no downvotes on my reviews anymore, and now I know why. I liked seeing which reviews of mine were viewed as more helpful than others (barring massive fanboy downvotes but I don't really review games where that tends to happen, sooo), which means this sucks doubly for me. I'll still write reviews, though. At least it'll advertise the good games to those on my friends list and warn them of the bad ones. ...not that the bad ones really need a warning most of the time (lol GooCubelets) but still.
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"People don't hate the games/companies I hate or love the games/companies I love. THIS ISN'T HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!!!111ONEONE!"
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Steam implemented a new review-scoring system, which now fully conforms some of the complains made by game developers.
For example, now if your game wants to be review-bombed because, let's say, you added a new microtransaction system, paid mods, or lootboxes to your new single-player only game, only as many negative voices can be heard as the overall game score allows.
You had 95% rating before? Never fear review-bombs, because they may be written by the thousands, as long as you remain over 90% still, only one of them will appear in the store page, at the bottom. The other nine will always praise you.
Oh, you are a struggling indie developer who had negative reception but worked hard to improve the game? Sorry, we will still display more negative reviews to drive off customers. Please do not contact us, we at Valve think you are important, but we need to keep sucking Bethesda's and Activision's dicks 24/7 so they do not leave our store for their own platform!
Additionally, are you the leader of the "Original Curators" or similar groups taking payment for fake positive reviews? Boy, those pesky normal users with morals and such were really annoying, downvoting your carefully crafted "Good game, would recommend 10/10" reviews you paid so much extorted keys to get 1000 upvotes for. Now, do not worry about them, we will not display any downvotes or the overall feedback percentage of the reviews, so all you need to do is ask your 10k users to upvote a set of reviews, and they will remain on top forever! Getting free stuff for fake reviews have never been easier!
What, this means IMDB user score will be more accurate and dependable than Steam store feedback? Pffft.
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