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Steam’s new language-specific review scores highlight Japanese players’ tendency to leave only negative reviews. Gamers fear this might affect Japanese language support for future releases (automaton-media.com)

submitted 9 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah if things are fine and I bought the game I don't leave a review. Only if it's exceptionally good, or I feel I need to warn others do I take the time to review.

Basically if I bought a game and put more then 5 hours into it and didn't have anything to say, that is my positive appreciation signal

I've got 2000 hours in Factorio and haven't left a review on steam.....

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm not really a fan of how steam does it's reviews with the requirement of text.

If it would just let me give a blank thumbs up that doesn't show up, I'd be more willing to leave a thumbs up. Just that little bit of resistance after a day's worth of work is enough to discourage me to do anything unless it's something absolutely amazing.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Having a middle option of ratings in common categories would be nice too, like what I've seen many reviews do in text.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

I agree with you, I typically only leave a review when something is terrible as a warning.

I’ve never left a review for stardew valley and I have around 500hrs or so.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

didn’t have anything to say, that is my positive appreciation signal

Not saying anything is not a signal for anything. For indie games, I tend to leave at least a positive one-liner (unless it's trash, of course, then it might be a negative one-liner).

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You don't leave a le funny review on every game? No cake recipe or a picture of a cat? Are you even a real gamer?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 9 months ago

I'm not a real gamer, just an adult with disposable income and thousands of hours playing games, at least as far as steam tells me.... so maybe I'm a problem gamer?

I have no idea about the whole steam point system, i totally ignore it... i just buy games on deep discounts... so while I have 6000 hours of play time, I have a backlog of games with 20,000 hours of possible play time, and I will die with steam games I've paid real actual money for that I have never, ever, ever played.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

God I hate meme reviewers so much. Absolutely insufferable.