Steam Reviews now in beta!

pretty sweet. i hate the recommendation system, i want everyone to know how i REALLY feel.

I like it

I love it

nice indeed

YAY! I really like this idea.

This will be great as long as there is some moderation to the reviews. I've already voted down several because they were just random gibberish. One guy's "review" was just a bunch of number 8's typed over and over. This feature will just add more page clutter as long as Steam allows for posts like these.

Putting a "+1" as a review is pretty worthless too IMO.

**** yes. But did they increase character limits?
And since someone else decided to show off their reviews, might as well show my own as well

Seems ok, though I set my reviews to "public" it still seems to think they are "friend's only". Lets just hope the community pages dont get spammed by too many reviews now though!

I like it. I tend write a little on what i think about the games i like, but don't really have many people on my friends list, so no one was really able to see it. This changes that. Very nice feature.

Really helpful

It is a nice idea, i just hope it is not a Metacritic 2.0

Better but not perfect. I really hope the don't and numbers or starts or another points based ranking system. I think we all know how useless review scores are. I don't really even like the fact that I have to either recommend or not recommend. Sure, there are some games I recommend but I already wrote about them. Some games will only appeal to certain people and people need to read the actual text to see if its something they will like. You might see a bunch of thumbs up and buy the game not realizing that the top reviews were all super fan boys. The other issue is the voting. fans of a game very well might (a.k.a. absolutely will) down vote critical reviews keeping them from showing on the front page. Allowing others to see reviews is nice and the ability to edit is great but I'm not sure I'll right any reviews unless I feel strongly one way or another about a game.

3 of my friends want X Rebirth. I pre-purchased that one (sadly) and I'm glad I could do a review on how bad the game is...

Bulgarian is on the list of languages to choose from, yaaay. :D

If someone wants to read: Reviews :D

PS. I hate clickies!

Soo... what did it change except for the name? Just the ability to rate a review, pretty pointless.. or i guess the edit function is practical, as in how was this not in before..

Awesome! Well, since many are posting their reviews, I'll post mine. Check 'em out and let me know if they're helpful. ^_^

I have reviewed The Bridge and Spelunky so far.

Reviews

I've been asking for this since 1998.

Next up, blogs?

I glad they finally did it, I always though it would be a pretty handy feature. :)

i posted my own ideas for how the mostly useless suggestion system could be improved a little over 2 years ago. glad to see steam doing something about it!

I mostly write reviews in my own language that are not listed in Steam so it may be pretty useless to me... why don't they make separate language chooser for reviews instead of based on Steam locale.

just saw your review on KotOR's store page :)

i think this new feature is pretty cool

I've always used the suggestion button as a review one lol

Funny how nobody here sees the negative side of this.
Just look at the Call of Duty: Ghosts page: Only negative reviews voted up because the haters are more persitent. Same can happen the other way round when fanboys downvote all legitimate criticism.
Or some chan-troll-armies will go and upvote only troll-reviews.
Or anybody writes a good review, get a lot of upvotes, and then edit it to "people who play this like it in the butt".
People who don't own a game shouldn't be able to vote in the first place. And editing a review should reset its votes.

Another idea of Valve that they didn't think through, just like Greenlight with all the "bribed" upvotes.

So misleading, this is just improved "Recommend" function.