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This seems like such a good idea considering how many negative reviews I've seen that were really just bug reports 🙄

Yes absolutely! Platforms might not want to direct people away from their own tools like that, but some kind of prompt to send a support message instead of leaving a negative review would definitely improve things

There are people who want to help. Then there are people who enjoy the power. Not so different from several professional game reviewers. Developer's spotlight is the game they make. These reviewer's spotlight is the power to make or destroy someone and they love being creative with their disses

Unfortunately, many people will leave a negative review and you can see developers replying that it was fixed, but they never change their review ever? These people moved on, but the developer is left with the immense damage they've caused to their careers

I also feel like there should be a howlongtobeat number, and the review should only count if the player have played more than 10% of that time. This could eliminate a lot of those early bad reviews you're talking about.

Yeh there are issues chinese gamers censored away from forums using it for tech support. But, by en large, I find it's a tough but fair system. I've raised my 1st game from middling to 83%+ ratings. It's not a death sentence. But I am just one dev. Perhaps too optimistic here:)

For years on end Steam reviews have just been pet the ASCII cat or "nobody's gonna read this so I'm gay" and Valve only recently started sorting these lower. Don't expect any help here And for this non-help you owe them 30%

Breaks my heart to hear it, really and truly. I'm so sorry your hard work would be treated so. I do surveys for a living and we would treat a single negative review in a data set full of positives as an unimportant outlier, not a valid point of view. Steam should be doing the same.

Oh yes another huge and damaging effect of the review system. It actively encourages mass harassment of minorities by bad actors.

For real. There is basically no stand out LGBTQ+ themes to me so far...other than just, ya know, existing.

It's truly astounding. Out of curiosity, I skimmed through twenty pages of their reviews and in those twenty pages, only one review was positive. And there's 1500 pages. That's... 'impressive' 😂

I guess comment sections (and actually, the internet) was really have a bad consequences...

A) it's not always about bug fixes per se. The world where games are "done" when they launch is long gone. Gamers expect updates, new content, even to games the developers considered finished. B) it's not "wasn't a success, why bother" it's "wasn't a success, studio went broke" in many cases!

Games are now being spamed by incel with this game is woke up why it's bad like wtf does that have to do with it? That seems to be big complaints on civ7, which isn't a bad game. Just the game needs more development.

I like the concept of reviews when you have the detailed ones that explain their reasons. But not everyone does that OR reads through them. It would be nice if steam had some options to pick from like tags. Or something more than just recommend / not recommend.

Indie game devs and gig workers suffering under the yolk of the review system

It wouldn’t take a very complex statistical model to keep an individual bad review from tanking the score.

I'm surprised - most of the indie (solo/small team) games I play have interesting idea and mechanics but are often poorly polished or executed. The reviews tend to be quite forgiving on the whole ranging from good upwards.

It's gotta be solved on Steam's side. Maybe remove the Recent/All Reviews summary since I feel like people WILL click away if they see anything less than Mostly Positive. I wonder if that'd help with review bombing, since their review won't do as much when there's no overall metric to hurt lol