i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.
steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.
The main problem is that those reviews are still included in the overall review score. I think you can filter out low play time but that’s an extra step most won’t take (because they shouldn’t need to)
would you prefer the platform police it and run into the problem that the google play store/ios app store has about vote manipulation? and purging several reviews (whether legitamate or not)
Steam already does stuff similar to this? Reviews flagged as “suspicious” aren’t deleted but aren’t included in the overall score instead, and a notice is put next to the overall score when this happens. The same is true for reviews made by people who got the game with a key.
Why not extend this? Like you said, most bots have low play time, valve could exclude (but not delete) reviews with low play time. I agree that doing something like this is a slippery slope towards mobile app store reviews but if it’s done right then it is a net positive.
i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.
steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.
True
The main problem is that those reviews are still included in the overall review score. I think you can filter out low play time but that’s an extra step most won’t take (because they shouldn’t need to)
People who review games poorly are unlikely to play them for long though. How would you filter them as not to drop most legit negative reviews?
would you prefer the platform police it and run into the problem that the google play store/ios app store has about vote manipulation? and purging several reviews (whether legitamate or not)
Steam already does stuff similar to this? Reviews flagged as “suspicious” aren’t deleted but aren’t included in the overall score instead, and a notice is put next to the overall score when this happens. The same is true for reviews made by people who got the game with a key.
Why not extend this? Like you said, most bots have low play time, valve could exclude (but not delete) reviews with low play time. I agree that doing something like this is a slippery slope towards mobile app store reviews but if it’s done right then it is a net positive.