User scores are a real mixed bag. You have people that will fairly rate games based on their honest opinions. These sorts are rather rare. You have users that will rate on an "all or nothing" scale where only the lowest and highest numbers are viable options to them. You have those that will rate a game highly because it's a meme. Then you have those that will participate in review bombing of a title because of a variety...
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in NewsEpic Games Store Implements Unusual Rating System
You can review games but only when Epic says you can.
User scores are a real mixed bag. You have people that will fairly rate games based on their honest opinions. These sorts are rather rare. You have users that will rate on an "all or nothing" scale where only the lowest and highest numbers are viable options to them. You have those that will rate a game highly because it's a meme. Then you have those that will participate in review bombing of a title because of a variety... -
Valve Will Now Remove 'Off-Topic Review Bombs' from Steam User Scores
Valve has had a major problem these past few years with user submitted reviews. One of the biggest issues with user reviews, be they on Steam or anywhere, is when a push is made by a community to review bomb a game or other form of media. These usually result in a ton of negative reviews in a short span of time for a product because of some perceived slight by a studio concerning a game.
Steam displays user scores in a couple of ways. They show the average of the most recent... -
in ValveValve's Fix for Combating Review Bombing is a Graph
Review bombing is when a bunch of Steam users get together in an effort to drastically raise or drastically lower the user scores for a game. It's usually the case that a developer or publisher has done something that people don't agree with so they "get back" at them by submitting a bunch of negative reviews. Those mass spammed negative reviews are then upvoted in a mass circle jerk while any positive reviews are mass downvoted. This is all done in an effort to... do... something? I guess their... -
Valve's Fix for Combating Review Bombing is Graphs
Review bombing is when a bunch of Steam users get together in an effort to drastically raise or drastically lower the user scores for a game. It's... -
Valve Makes Steam User Reviews Slightly Less Terrible on Steam
Steam user reviews tend to suck. The top reviews are usually the bandwagon fluff that also tends to infest such sites as Metacritic's user scores on games or they're "joke" posts with a punchline that only those that are mentally eight years old would laugh at.
Today, Valve took a few steps to fix this issue of user scores.
Visibility For Recently Posted Reviews While there are plenty of new reviews posted every day, we saw that it was often difficult for newer revie... -
Valve Makes Steam User Reviews Slightly Less Terrible on Steam
Steam user reviews tend to suck. The top reviews are usually the bandwagon fluff that also tends to infest such sites as Metacritic's user scores...