Valve has made some modifications to the way in which recreation critiques work on Steam to forestall the development of overview bombing from affecting a recreation’s basic picture.
The firm stated in a weblog put up that Steam critiques, notably the scores, are designed to present gamers a approach of seeing in the event that they’re going to love a selected recreation.
Over time, when gamers found they may put up low overview scores en masse each time they didn’t like one thing the developer stated or did, Valve realised that components outdoors the sport have begun affecting scores for Steam critiques. While Valve agrees that their opinions are legitimate, the corporate feels that posting damaging critiques for causes outdoors the video games themselves doesn’t assist different clients.
To fight this, Valve has launched a brand new characteristic referred to as histograms. This is now out there on all recreation pages, and it reveals a histogram of the constructive to damaging ratio of critiques over a recreation’s total lifetime. Through it, you’ll have the ability to clearly see when a spike in damaging or constructive critiques occurred by clicking on any a part of the histogram.
You’re additionally in a position to learn a pattern of critiques from the interval you select, which ought to assist potential clients establish whether or not a damaging spike was on account of a change within the recreation, or one thing outdoors of it.
“This approach has the advantage of never preventing anyone from submitting a review, but does require slightly more effort on the part of potential purchasers,” Valve wrote.
Valve stated that it experimented with different options similar to locking the power to overview sure video games for a sure period of time, and even altering how scores are calculated. Ultimately, the histograms characteristic received as a result of it doesn’t take away from a consumer’s capacity to present suggestions in regards to the recreation.
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