One of the most useful tools that Valve makes available to us is the possibility of writing a review of each video game, so the community can have a clearer idea of whether or not it is worth investing money in a title. However, for some time now, Steam It has been completely filled with criticism without any value.
Plagiarized content, texts that seek to generate positive votes and a total perversion of a method of assessment which pushed the less interesting reviews to the top. After many months of exasperation on the part of the players, Gabe Newell’s company has finally taken the bull by the horns and imposed measures.
“We’ve noticed that many players use reviews to share jokes, memes, ASCII art, and other types of content that probably isn’t very helpful to a potential buyer. It’s fine to post things like that, and it’s often a lot of fun for those who already own the game, but it doesn’t always help new players make an informed purchasing decision.”
That is why from now on it will be given “Priority to those that may be most useful to players when deciding to buy a game” and we don’t need to do anything to activate it, since it is enabled by default with the latest store update. In addition, there are two key details to keep in mind.
The first is that all unhelpful reviews will appear as the latest, so it doesn’t mean that Valve will delete them completely, but rather filter them out for convenience. The second is that such reviews will not lose validity in regards to your score for the game itself, but will It all comes down to what order they are displayed in.
The company is using “user reports, detailed analysis of many reviews by Steam’s moderation team, and a range of machine learning algorithms” to detect which ones are not useful. over 140 million reviews those that the digital store has contained since its creation and the reason for not directly eliminating the source of the problem is simple.
“We’ve noticed that many users want to give their opinion on a game, but they don’t always know how to describe their experience well or they prefer not to write too much. Even if they can’t explain why, their opinion when it comes to recommending or not recommending the game is still valuable data.”
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