What do you think about Steam's Changes Coming to User Reviews?

In my experience of comparing the new system with the old system, I think the new system is absolutely horrid in practice and just seems to have the positive reviews rise up more to drive sales (or it's just not properly calibrated yet).

Examples:
Payday 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272080/PAYDAY_3/
Concord - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2443720/Concord
Diablo 4 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2344520/Diablo_IV/
Wo Long - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1448440/Wo_Long_Fallen_Dynasty/
Chivalry 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824220/Chivalry_2/

I don't have anything against those games, I haven't even played them, but you can see how few "helpful votes" a positive review has compared to the negative reviews. The helpful votes are almost always above the negative in sorting (and the negative are pushed all the way to the bottom) usually if you sort by "Summary" or "Most Helpful" with their new system. Some of the reviews don't even list how many "helpful votes" it has, indicating maybe 0 (?) but they are still above negative reviews with dozens or helpful votes. If you disable it, the negatives rise up to the top.

I don't think there's a way to set a "default" review order and to disable it so I have to remember to disable it every time I look at reviews.

I definitely like the idea of removing dumb meme/joke/not helpful reviews from the summary (while keeping it in the review score) but instead that's not what it actually did in practice.

from what I have read its just pushing the meme reviews to no longer be the top displayed ones, they will still be there and readable.

so its a good change for those who want to see why people like/dislike a game to see actual reviews instead of ascii images and memes.

It's keeping the old but defaulting to the new. I think that's great.

I'll still be careful when purchasing by reading positive and negative reviews but the community fun ones are important to people like me too.

I like the new system in theory, let's see how it rolls out.

By just checking some games i did not had the feeling that the reviews are more informative.
Quite the opposite there where games where the top shown reviews say even less about the game then before.
The game Dex for example has right now only 4 top shown reviews that are longer then a single sentence (some of them even less) out of the 10 shown ones.
With the "old" system it is the other way around.
Thankfully we can choose how we want it to be shown, as it is obvious that the new feature does need more work to work proberly.

I thought it already started like a week ago?

Didn't you made the very same topic about a week ago?

I don't really care about game reviews but since the review section has become such a shit show, it doesn't really entice me to scroll down just to read the same BS on every game page. Maybe the cleaning job will make me scroll down again... then again maybe not.

It will come down to minute execution, but no one reads my reviews anyway.

i dont trust them
before they implemented a new system to stop review bombing games, they claimed would work both ways.
when two game were review bombed for the +% one cause of memes and another cause i dont recall they didnt do shit. they only went after games that were negatively reviewed in mass for things like stealing music, firing staff who made game, dev who made game was rapist, so on
just another tactic to boost overall % and steam sales

I like having options. So, I'm good with this.

I don't really rely on the product page's highlighted reviews anyway. I generally go to the review page, look at the most helpful, spend about one to two seconds clicking on negative only, read some of those, spend another one to two seconds clicking on positive only, read some of those. I'll then visit the forum, see what's being said there. And from there, I'll consider the overall picture.