Nope.
As of today, the recent and overall review scores we show at the top of a product page will no longer include reviews written by customers that activated the game through a Steam product key.
Customers that received the game from a source outside of Steam (e.g. via a giveaway site, purchased from another digital or retail store, or received for testing purposes from the developer) will still be able to write a review of the game on Steam to share their experience. These reviews will still be visible on the store page, but they will no longer contribute to the score.
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It shows they're getting better at half-assing half-assed things.
Because when you go ahead with a bad idea anyway, why bother checking that it actually works the way you think it should ?
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Oh, wow. Okay, so, I checked-
I can still edit reviews for both formats, but that's it, I'm locked out of making new reviews under any circumstances. :P
(Looking at comments below, I guess I'm not alone in having a full lock-out. :X)
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Hmm, I just checked it on both types and got the "You must own this product to review it." message for both.
Interestingly enough, there are 16 reviews for the recently released RIVE, 2 for store purchase and 14 keys - so between then and now, yeah, Valve fucked it up. lol
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pinches nose
Sometimes I really question myself why didn't I migrate to GOG…
sigh Okay, so we wait for Valve to fix their own garbage code. Again.
But hey, today I got a REALLY nice gift form someone on Steam, so even this can't put a dent to my good mood. =) (Hopefully.)
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Sometimes I really question myself why didn't I migrate to GOG…
Being able to trade and better yet sell your cards and what not is why I'm on steam. As someone who doesn't have credit card, paypal or well money in general being able to get good games that get bundled for cards is really great.
However even if I did have money I wouldn't buy games on GOG. Valve has an issue of allowing pretty much anything to get on steam, there's no quality control but GOG on the other hand has an issue of being too picky.
There are so many good little indie games that got rejected by GOG simply because they're not very popular. Siralim for example got rejected because it's "too niche". It seems to me that GOG only cares about games they know they can sell lots of copies of and points a middle finger at everything else. Not the kinda of guys I would want to support.
Anyway on steam you can just ignore the trash you're not interested in and still have access to those little gems that GOG doesn't allow on their store. On the other hand on GOG there's no trash games but you can't get lots of good ones either.
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GOG on the other hand has an issue of being too picky.
GOG is like Valve 5 years ago.
got rejected because it's "too niche"
Valve used exactly that reasoning too back then.
GOG is also mostly missing new big titles that don't 'risk' being DRM-free. And no (outside) bundles.
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I think you can leave a review for a game that you got as a key, but you must have played it previously. That's what I noticed in my account, at least.
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I just tried posting a test review for a couple of games I activated via key and I got the same message. I then tried writing a test review for a game I bought on steam and I got the same message. It seems that writing reviews is broken in general now, regardless of how you obtained the game you wanted to write a review about.
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Sounds like a normal day of using Steam.
Besides, Valve has made it pretty damn clear they not only don't care about shady devs, but that they seem to be outright encouraging them. For the very, very small number of games that have been removed, Valve has explicitly allowed known crapware developers like Digital Homocide to remain on Steam [DH, is, by the way, still continuing to operate their products on Steam under aliases..].
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I know just a few days ago they were still listing games under misleading presentations of their individual personal names- which may mean they've been prohibited from continued outright obsfucation, so they've been forced to utilize variations of names they actually have a right to.
My memory isn't good enough to say what those names are, however. In any case, it's clear they're still actively trying to scam people, regardless of their 'right' to the mechanism involved.
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Valve has royally fucked this up. Divinity: Original Sin 2 releases tomorrow and if nothing changes no backers will be able to post reviews. Great job by Steam pissing off legit devs like Larian Studios or inXile while barely doing anything about the actual problem.
How about banning those few devs that abused the review system and finally adding some quality control to Greenlight? But that obviously would cost Valve some money and this shitty solution was probably done by some intern.
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Why do you need to have reviews anyway.. It's all in the game's description! Problem solved.
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That's preposterous, it never happened, never..evah.. stop the lies..
ok..maybe once!
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It's quite shocking to see that the vast, vast majority of games are bought on Steam itself, not keys. They must be making mad dosh :/
Not counting some fringe cases where it's 100 Russian key positives and 2 negatives from Steam.
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As I have surmised in another thread, I suspect that reviews that were posted before November 2015 would count as store purchases, even if they were written using keys. Which means that for pretty much a lot of the games there are more reviews flagged as store purchases than there actually should be.
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vast, vast majority of games are bought on Steam itself
don't confuse writing reviews/playing with owning/buying. Most "key people" buy bundles and have huge lib sizes, don't get to play many.
While those who buy directly at higher prices are way more likely to play & review that specific game.
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Just out of curiosity, do you guys back up your reviews after posting them? And if not, do you think now would be a good time to do it?... Just in case. You never know how much they might mess this up.
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im experiencing a weird problem when i try write a game review. after all is set and im about to publish it, a red text comes out saying i need to own the game in order to write a review, but i do have that game. i tried with other games and the same message shows up. tried to close and reopen steam but its the same.
what is going on?
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