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Review games on Steam that you love. Results are determined by those who show up
x4000:
Ah, I see. That makes a lot more sense. Well, I'm glad it's not my job to sort that out. ;)
TheVampire100:
I'm a huge reviewer and I was very pleased with the Steam review system. It gave me a platform where I am active and can publish my reviews not only to friends but also to the public.
And Steam is not a small plattform it is the most used gaming plattform of the internet and if you have a good score there you can except some more sale numbers.The problem with public reviews however is, people tend to overreact. And people tend to react immature. people also tend to do stuff without thinking twice.
Put all together and you have a lot of negative reviews because peiople played 2 minutes into the game, think they had an actual experience of the game and then give a negative review with two sentences.
In my opinion revies should have at least a certain word/letter count before they are counted into the system. Teh reason is, tweo sentences say absolutly nothing about the game itself. true you can say you like or dislike the game but that's an OPINION not a REVIEW. A review means that you put effort and TIME into it, thinking through waht is good about the game, whats bad, what you like (that's the opinion part of the review), what you dislike. But most of you say what the game is about and list the pros and cons of the game. Either with an actual list or embedded in text (like I do). Maybe people won't read everything from it. people tend also to be lazy. But at least you know that YOU have played the game and have experience from it. You know what you type.
This lazy 0,5 hours reviews are not worth viewing and get from me always a "NOPE!" not dependign if they like or dislike the game.
If you want to check out my reviews (on German though): http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198050705438/recommended/
I've putted real effort in most of it, some need some rework because they are either outdatted, I changed my opinion on the game or were written when the review system was still just a suggstion system for friends.
I've also written a AI War Review and would be happy to write about the other Arcen Games games (ha ha) that I own on Steam.
I'm also writing guides (these in english because they target a bigger audience) but I'm not so good at it like on reviews.
KingIsaacLinksr:
@TheVampire: while I appreciate the sentiment, putting minimum characters on reviews will be pretty easy to get around: just copy/paste more words until you reach the minimum. Additionally, sometimes I publish negative reviews if something about the game is inherently broken. Like multiplayer! I'm not going to sit in a game for 2+ hours if I can't get a game going because the developer shipped a broken multiplayer service. That's just nonsense. But I will write a fairly detailed review about my (unhappy) feelings.
Also, shameless self-promotion, I've got my own curation page now: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/kingisaaclinksr/curation. I'll be working on it as time goes on.
Misery:
--- Quote from: TheVampire100 on September 22, 2014, 10:46:27 pm ---I'm a huge reviewer and I was very pleased with the Steam review system. It gave me a platform where I am active and can publish my reviews not only to friends but also to the public.
And Steam is not a small plattform it is the most used gaming plattform of the internet and if you have a good score there you can except some more sale numbers.The problem with public reviews however is, people tend to overreact. And people tend to react immature. people also tend to do stuff without thinking twice.
Put all together and you have a lot of negative reviews because peiople played 2 minutes into the game, think they had an actual experience of the game and then give a negative review with two sentences.
In my opinion revies should have at least a certain word/letter count before they are counted into the system. Teh reason is, tweo sentences say absolutly nothing about the game itself. true you can say you like or dislike the game but that's an OPINION not a REVIEW. A review means that you put effort and TIME into it, thinking through waht is good about the game, whats bad, what you like (that's the opinion part of the review), what you dislike. But most of you say what the game is about and list the pros and cons of the game. Either with an actual list or embedded in text (like I do). Maybe people won't read everything from it. people tend also to be lazy. But at least you know that YOU have played the game and have experience from it. You know what you type.
This lazy 0,5 hours reviews are not worth viewing and get from me always a "NOPE!" not dependign if they like or dislike the game.
If you want to check out my reviews (on German though): http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198050705438/recommended/
I've putted real effort in most of it, some need some rework because they are either outdatted, I changed my opinion on the game or were written when the review system was still just a suggstion system for friends.
I've also written a AI War Review and would be happy to write about the other Arcen Games games (ha ha) that I own on Steam.
I'm also writing guides (these in english because they target a bigger audience) but I'm not so good at it like on reviews.
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I'll agree with this completely.
I haaaaaaaaaaaate seeing reviews, for any game, where the person doing it has like, one hour of time with it. I know some games are sorta inherantly low attachment time by design, but most arent this way, and it's easy to tell when particular games are really offering LOTS of hours of gameplay, and typically also easy to tell when a game can take awhile to really properly learn.
But they'll post reviews anyway pointing out things they dont like... even if they havent really messed with those things at all.
I personally never put up reviews unless I've spent a good amount of time with the game. There's been ONE exception, which is Hitogata Happa, but that's only because I'd played the PS3 version alot prior to that. But other than that singular exception, I never ever put up reviews unless I have quite a lot of hours in a game. Last Federation, I'm probably going to write up a review for as I dont think I've done so yet, but I *wont* do that with the expansion, as I've only just started a campaign in one of the new modes there, and it'll be awhile before I can get a true feel for how it's all coming together.
The worst part is when you see a review that very obviously had little effort or is based on very low experience with the game, yet it gets a bazillion thumbs up. Just... argh. Bugs me to no end.
eRe4s3r:
Steam does not have reviews, it has recommendations. They do not need to be the length of a book page and should not be regarded as reviews ;) At the core it's a popularity contest over an opinion with either positive or negative up-front connotations, not a review.
Ps.: Steam playtime says nothing about how long someone played the game...... for various (actually extremely varied) reasons.
And sorry Misery, but If I dislike a game after 5 minutes so extremely I find myself writing a negative recommendation then that is how that works and likely far more helpful to someone who hasn't yet wasted 5 minutes but can fully understand my points...... And often these recommendations are more useful than the astroturf recommendations for games exactly for that reason. I'd rather someone tell me their experience, negative or not, than listing what kind of genre a game is or isn't. And when a dev says, pulled support for a game, then I want to read that at the top of the recommendations, and not 5 days later when I accidentally stumble upon the news post on blues....
In the end, you disagree with a recommendation give it a thumbs down.
I actually was tempted to write a very negative recommendation for Pixel Piracy after little more than 30 minutes of suffering, because by god has that an annoying control scheme. I refuse to play that ;/ Or Sword and Soldiers HD, which I hated after exactly 12 minutes so much that I never started it ever again after that. Now I didn't write anything because I was simply lazy.. but if you disregard recommendations with short play-times you are shooting yourself in the foot. Often these are the honest opinions while the rest is community driven astroturfing. Which is completely unhelpful actually (to me).
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