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• the most genius comedian of all time

And people explaining what the game is instead of how the game is.

It's because sometimes I just want to "rate" the game, not "review" it but steam won't let me. So sometimes I just write "it sucks." or sometimes some random shit. Steam should have a idk 5 star rating system with optional reviews. Makes more sense but shit games will be bought less I bet.

5,000 Steam awards on the "review" too.

they already have a system for review bombing. i hope this is for stupid "joke" reviews that say nothing about the game but regurgitate the same fake review for the 1400th time.

Some review bombs are for legit reasons. I've seen a few for games that dropped support for a language well after release.

I don't have a direct quote, but I remember reading a few years ago that valve was debating how to handle bombing. They said something along the lines of not wanting to silence the bombers, but to highlight it so it was clear it was a review bomb. I got the impression they were considering things like showing the unusual spike of reviews in a different color. This sounds like it might be the results of that.

If I'm grokking the feature correctly, people will have to review bomb the review bombers with "unhelpful" flags.

I've never discovered review bombing over steam. Either my peers mention it to me or I see it on social media.

Though to be fair, almost all of my decisions about buying games are made from watching videos of said game, rather than reading reviews. Steam reviews, for me, are either for very cheap games I'm buying impulsively or games where I have some insight but am still on the fence.

I used to read Rock Paper Shotgun as part of the decision making process, but I've found their input less useful the last few years.

Yo dawg...

Slashdot nailed this decades ago.

You can mark a review as helpful. If it's that, then users decide about it.

It probably works based on whether users marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful and then uses some formula to remove the unhelpful ones. So it can be neither, but the key takeaway is that the users decide what ends up filtered out.

I would hope that it’s removing that one review about being a 40 year old dad that plays the game with his son that’s on every single game in the Steam store. And also hopefully that copy pasted one with the check boxes

Asking the real questions.

How I feel about your comment: 1 - it's ugly 2 - meh 3 - the graphics are okay 4 - it's pretty 5 - OMG it's like real life!

5/5

PROS

• I can write a list
• It will be a few lines
• I can fluff it up a bit
• Keep going
• Almost there
• It's an okay game

CONS

• I'll write 200 of these
• Most will be nitpicky
• I still played over 1000 hours
• I clearly have never written a line of code yet somehow know how they could have done it better
• I should be paid as a game journalist

3/10

Memes? yes!

Grievances? That's exactly what a review is for! Telling other people what you do and don't like about a thing.