Valve launches 'helpfulness system' for Steam user reviews

I always thought a simple 5 star system, just like GOG does, is superior to what Steam has. GOG let you give rating without a review but for some reason Valve don't want to go that way. I'm sure the rating count would be much higher if people didn't had to write reviews.

I agree that's the main reason not informative reviews are there. And they even added fuel to the flames with Steam Points on reviews. As a result people try to be funny more than being informative. Hopefully this would at least fix some of it.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding, but I think the answer to your question is because nobody is going to verify 700 000 reviews for elden ring to see how many of them are reviewing and how many are baiting for attention, and then go to the next steam game out of I don't know the 100k games listed on steam. Like steam ain't going to pay anyone just to spend 8 hours a day and read reviews, nor would the devs themselves, and even then suppose someone did, they're bound to make mistakes and people would crap on them, or of course for devs to abuse the system.

Edit: I was misunderstanding ty AiKirika and adam1224
Then I guess that changes my answer to valve probably never intending a simple thumbs up/down to be the factor that decides a game rating % without any sort of explanation behind the reasoning as it can provide tons of abuse that way and create useless confusing as to what is and what isn't worth to count as creditable. A dev could give 100 keys away in exchange for thumbs up, and that'd give them 100 positive reviews, if you have to write 100 different reviews you can at least start spotting some bots and it requires some effort many abusers aren't willing to go through. I guess in order for steam to do this, they'd have to not count the thumbs up or down in the actual reviews, they wouldn't show anywhere including the steam users reviews because it wouldn't be a review(unless steam would add a thumbs section separate from reviews on people's profile to look at what was thumbed up or down which sounds... dumb to say the least), and at that point, why even implement it as a feature? It would be useless to do it. It's like redundant with less features than the review feature.

I think what they want to do is step away from meme reviews slowly case in which imo they should filter accounts that do meme reviews, and prevent them from reviewing again, and put a min game ownership to 10-25 games per acc in order to be able to review anything.

All in all it sounds like a good thing they did as you go onto a new games page and multiple out of the first 10 reviews to show were memes.

While true, I think the general number of votes would plummet on reviews - people before purchase surely read more reviews (and vote) than people who already have the game. I'm not sure though, if that would mean actual harm to the system.

Lol, right :)

In my opinion, it can't get worse. Most of the time that I want to read reviews of a popular game, I have to scroll past several cats to be petted, several statements how "I used to have small pp, I still do but the game is good", etc ..

I'm curious to see this new system in action, but almost anything they do will be an improvement.

I report any I come across. But Valve should start giving bans for abusing the system.

I'm so used to playing indie games that have like 5 guides after years of being released that I didn't even know than that was an issue.

I'm afraid you're right. But honestly, it can't get much worse. I'll take AI summary over useless joke reviews any day of the week.

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This is true. Steam points made steam worse in general. Not sure what they were thinking.