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Two Hobbyists Made One of This Year’s Best Video Games (Chants of Sennaar) (www.bloomberg.com)
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Here is the link to the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/Chants_of_Sennaar/

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[–] bogdugg@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suck at math, but if the mean is sufficiently over the "positive" threshold, and there's a low standard deviation across reviews, wouldn't this have the problem I describe? The more certain people are about the quality of good games, the less relevant the ratio becomes, which is perhaps the opposite of what you would want.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I suck at math, but if the mean is sufficiently over the “positive” threshold, and there’s a low standard deviation across reviews, wouldn’t this have the problem I describe?

Since Steam reviews are only positive or negative, not on a point scale, I'm not sure how this problem would come to pass. The distribution of reviews around the mean are expected to be similar for your described 10/10 game and the 7/10 game, and since the review system itself is only boolean in nature there is no distorted result.

The more certain people are about the quality of good games, the less relevant the ratio becomes, which is perhaps the opposite of what you would want.

Why does the ratio become less relevant the more certain people are about the quality of good games? Again, the review is only positive or negative, no actual review number assigned. In which cases do you expect the ratio to drift away from the actual useful information?