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[–] Donut@leminal.space 166 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Fucking finally. I love a funny joke but if you're looking for serious reviews, you currently have to wade through a sea of trolls, jokes and copy-pasted meme reviews in order to figure out if a game is interesting to you.

Community features are cool but if you're the most popular platform of your kind, you're gonna attract a lot of trolls who's content can be really out there. Filters are a good solution to this!

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It's because sometimes I just want to "rate" the game, not "review" it but steam won't let me. So sometimes I just write "it sucks." or sometimes some random shit. Steam should have a idk 5 star rating system with optional reviews. Makes more sense but shit games will be bought less I bet.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There's this very nice template you can use to quickly make a more detailed review without having to write it all yourself. You can always just google "Steam review template" to find it.

[–] Donut@leminal.space 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That template is part of the problem

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think so? I feel like they're some of the most useful reviews I come across.

[–] Donut@leminal.space 6 points 3 months ago

Cherry picking here but what use is this category when it lists the required size right on the store page?

It just makes it impossible to provide any nuance related to the elements of a review. It's not just important to say "audio is very good", but also what makes this audio very good. Everyone has a different idea of what good and bad means, rendering a bunch of biased multiple choice questions mostly useless for readers

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