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The internet is sort of fucked. It was bad enough with marketers ruining search and sites through SEO obsession, but now with this chatbot bullshit everywhere? What’s the point? It’s all bs.
I want my fake reviews to come from a bot farm in some poor country, as god intended.
Review weighting formula needs updates, if it’s not taking this into account already. There are many many ways to do this. For example, review and it’s score are multiplied by coefficients that are computed from hours spent in the game, percentage of achievements completed, time from the last review posted on the same account, number of people who clicked “this looks like a shopped review” button, etc.
Sounds good, except which of those metrics you proposed can’t also be gamed by bots?
Overall reviews: Mostly Positive Recent Reviews: overwhelmingly negative
Review: this is the worst piece of shit ever made the devs should be hanged!!!
Playtime: 2006 hrs on record
Is this Dark & Darker?
Kinda sad because I usually rely on steam reviews to see how bad or good a game is.
i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.
steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.
I’ve recently discovered your review only counts if you bought it through steam on the steam store.
If you get a key off humble bundle or another site, your review means absolutely nothing. There is a little star next to reviews now that tell you this.
I found it a bit disappointing for steam.
I don’t see an issue with it. There’s no good way for Steam to know where the key came from, you could have been gifted the key, got it in a bundle, or stolen it from somewhere. Since they can’t tell, they don’t know if your review is compromised.
When I’m reading reviews, I don’t personally care about that, I just care what the review says, and I’ll read 5-10 before making a decision if it’s a more expensive or longer game. A lot of reviews are pointless (e.g. “nobody will read this, so I’m gay” or whatever), so I very much appreciate helpful reviews regardless of the source.
If I’m interested in a game, I usually download a repack to try it out and if I like it, I’ll buy it.
You could also buy it, try it and refund it if you don’t like it.
