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They've begun to enshittify their reviews. Used to be almost no meme reviews, now they're everywhere because people can get awards for them. And they of course the ability give awards require you spend money on Steam.
I used to trust "overwhelmingly positive" on games I was considering. Now I don't. I still read some steam reviews but also reviews across the web, too.
Steam is getting close to me not treating it as the only place to buy games.
"nobody reads reviews so i'll just say I'm gay"
"a friend of mine said he'll buy me a GTX4090 if I get 1000 likes in this review"
And that kind of shit is listed as "most helpful". Fuck Valve for making it hard to report that fucking shit
Apply Gabe directly to the forehead 😜
Ya, they're not perfect. I prefer GOG over Steam due to the DRM. But Valve still has a special place in my ❤️ and they make awesome products. And also the stuff runs better on Linux generally than GOG.
I feel like the actual review quality has gone down but even if it's a meme review people usually still use the thumb up or down to show how they really feel about the game making the overwhelming positive tag still accurate