What's /v/'s opinion on Steam reviews?
Useless.
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>>334695067
Piece of shit most of the time. I hate those "joke" reviews. Having the "funny" button or whatever it is barely helps; people will still click "yes" for the "Was this review helpful" question.
>>334695067
Fucking cringey copy and paste
>>334695067
My experience with them has been fully positive.
Sure you have to sift through the trash - but you get used to that after being on /v/ for so long.
>>334695362
That button is cancer. You can't even get to the actual reviews because the memers get their upboats. It's just a flawed system entirely. Wish it were scrapped.
The binary system for something like this is inherently biased. I feel that either a ternary or even unary option would have been better.
Individually they are cringey and worthless as fuck
That being said, "Overwhelming positive" games are usually pretty okay
And "Overwhelmingly negative" games are usualyl pretty bad
all positives reviews:
>did something dumb
>best game ever
>10/10
all negative reviews:
>something dumb happened
>would not X
>0/10 or Y/10
Helpful for games that aren't very popular.
>>334695067
Steam has reviews?
>>334695067
Some of the funniest things I've read were Steam reviews.
>>334695548
So far all the Steam reviews I've encountered were like this:
>Overwhelming positive games have shitty stupid joke reviews
>Overwhelming negative games have formal reviews inspecting the flaws of game and why it is not a recommended product to purchase
Somewhat helpful, when the consensus on a game is negative it definitely has big issues and you should avoid it or inform yourself more before buying it. Some users also take the time to write long reviews that are more informative than anything that comes from "professional" reviewers" but you have to dig through dozens of useless shit to get to them. I really wish people would stop mistaking the useful button for an upvote but I guess the thumbs up doesn't help.
>>334695067
>OP takes epic screenshot of his own epic comment
please go back to school
>>334696016
It's almost Summer... fuck.
>>334695067
Some are amusing.
>>334696606
Kek
99% Le Wacky Meme answers for epic upboats
1% Legitimate Autism.
Aggregate percentage that the reviews create is bretty gud usually though.
>>334695067
Accurate representation of the steam user demographic
>>334697308
Please don't kid yourselves, a lot of these reviews here derive from this place. The mentality is the same even if you don't want to admit it.
>>334697412
Yeah, but here i can atleast coax some semblance of an answer out of shithead memers, even if it's retarded.
>>334696606
Charlie's reviews are the only ones that matter.
>>334695067
Only read big negative reviews. This way you actually get some reliable information.
>>334695067
Devalues game scores because of retards complaining about uplay and whatnot. Zero integrity and riddled with shit biases and memes.
About as useful as youtube or reddit comments.
The only halfway decent way of using them is looking over the negative reviews. At least that way you might get the semblance of actual criticism and now just fanboy cheerleading and memes.
>>334695482
thanks doc
good intention ruined by shit taste lowest common denominators, only hundreds hours playtime negative reviews are worth reading
>>334695631
this
i found many usefull reviews, many people care about them and make good posts, for example lists with positve and negative things
saved some money
>negative review
>it's from some retard that didn't check the specs and is shocked his toaster can't run it
Some are not too bad
>>334695067
"Played for a while, it was ok"
"9999999 hours played"
HAHAHAHAHA STAPH!
>>334695067
Overwhelmingly positive or negative are usually good signs of whether or not the game is good or bad.
>>334698392
dumb frogposter
>>334698392
You can enjoy playing a shit game and still think it's bad or not worth the money
>>334695631
Except for kusoge. I think Neptunia has something like a 99% positive rating on Steam despite being utter fucking garbage.
>>334698392
God I hate this shit. And people keep doing it because they think they're funny and original.
>>334698387
LOOOOOOOL
>>334698623
Neptunia is a special case, though. The type of people who buy and play it on Steam are the type of people who want others to SEE that they bought and played it on Steam.
>top negative review
>"Stop looking for reasons to hate the game :^)"
steam reviews are 99% of the time terrible
at least they show the person played the game. That's more than other reviews
I only ever pay attention to the amount of positive and negative reviews.
Fucked up when companies pull shit like deleting negative reviews like with that Baldurs Gate expansion and write it off as "CYBER BULLIES"
>>334696606
>>334697482
holy shit more
>>334698387
>>334698682
>le hilariouse racist meme of islamophobia
>>334699332
>islamophobia
>phobia
there is no fear
only disgust
>>334699332
You have to go back now.
>>334699402
>there is no fear
Comparing muslims to rampaging ratmen threatening to tear down civilization and annihilate humanity does carry a certain connotation of fear, though.
>>334699253
http://steamcommunity.com/id/charlieso/recommended
Some of them actually made people mad, it's pretty impressive.
>>334696606
>>334697482
his minecraft review was pretty humorous
>>334699709
Sounds like a rather apt comparison considering the savagery we see on display from these subhumans.
Ruins games even further. Just shit in my ass already
>>334699736
>i don't see why i was expected to be attracted to a goat or whatever that was
Sides are gone
>>334699709
why does the truth carry connotations of fear?
>>334695067
Pretty pointless but still better than professional gaming journalism.
It's one of the best customer review systems simply because it requires the reviewer to actually own the game and shows how much they have played.
You just have to swim through a whole bunch of shit and memes to get to the good stuff.
Kind of like /v/
>>334699917
Judging by "time played" on Steam is just as pointless though. It doesn't log offline hours and a lot of people play a shitload offline.
>>334699760
>>334699849
Now you're just being silly.
>>334699965
Steam's offline mode is a joke and half the time doesn't work.
>>334700028
I hear this but I have never had a problem with it.
Useless when you have metacritic
>>334699983
you're the one telling us that you're scared of islam, we just feel disgust towards it.
>Did [thing], would do [thing] again, 10/10
Every steam review
>>334700057
That's even worse because you don't even have to own the fucking games to review them there.
>>334700056
Probably because you were never actually forced to use it for a prolonged period of time.
I have no idea how it works, but Steam pretty much forces you to log in after 1-2 days of offline mode.
Sometimes I've found Steam reviews useful or interesting. Not often, but still.
The joke ones that appear at the top by default just get tiresome, and it's a letdown that the most honest reviews that aren't driven by fanboyism are mainly the negative reviews, or some wordly drivel that's a pain in the ass to read because of how narrow the text wrapping is in the review columns.
You also have to find out for yourself on whether any point in a negative review gets remedied by the devs in a later patch or not, like serious connection issues or something. It's kind of a given if something was early access.
There also isn't a lot of short reviews either. There's like one guy on my friends list who kept it simple with a grade and recommend price to buy the game at, and that's it.
>>334699736
Are all these satirical?
>>334700169
It's very clear who owns them tho due to quality of review. Steam is absent of quality these days.
>Rise of flight has mixed/negative reviews
>Check the reviews
>HURR YOU HAVE TO BUY DA PLANES YOU CAN'T GRIND DEM
Are poorfags really this retarded?
>>334700204
>or some wordly drivel that's a pain in the ass to read because of how narrow the text wrapping is in the review columns.
Steam users have the same problem as certain forum dwellers in that they think "more words = more smarts"
>>334700248
No, the bear story is legit.
>>334695067
why isn't there a "you have to play this game for 5-10 hours" or even better "you have to complete the game first" restrictions on being able to post fucking reviews?
that is the ONLY WAY to cull this shit of dumb/shit/funny reviews
>>334700321
Satirical or not these are golden.
>It's shit
>12789 hours played
>>334700314
Again, I'd read them if the word wrapping wasn't so fucking narrow. Four full paragraphs here would like ten on Steam.
>>334700078
>we
Speak for yourself, fag.
>>334700248
Most, if not all of them, were done on Charlie's streams with suggestions from his chat.
Sometimes he tries to stay a bit realistic in the hopes of getting amusing replies, other times he just goes full nonsense.
>>334699736
I can't help but read this in Chad Warden's voice.
A bunch of really shitty e-comedians making shitty posts about shitty games with the occasional in depth review from someone who actually knows something
waste of time/10
>>334699736
I assume it got plenty of downvotes?
>>334695067
To be honest people who write lengthy reviews on steam are just as cringy as the ebin upboat reviews
>>334699332
>Islam
>race
>Islamophobia
>an actual thing
Yeah, no.
>>334699332
Yeah! Show those racists! Germany's imported millions of innocent muslim rocket space physicist doctors and they'll be a world power soon because of it!
Religion of peace!
>>334702006
>strawman guys, guys! strawman! look guys, strawman!
>>334701696
>I have no arguments, so I'll argue semantics instead
Islamophobia is real. It is as much about the irrational fear of people from Islamic countries as it is about the irrational fear of Islam
>>334702347
The "Liliputian homunculi" gave him away
>>334699736
Also noteworthy: The emails he mentions in his Dark Years review actually did happen. It's too bad they apparently didn't receive them, 'cause they were gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B7nqOHidM
>>334702354
If you don't think Islam needs a secular reform you're retarded.
>>334702354
>Irrational
>Police no go sharia zones hiding and growing Jihadists (e.g Brussels, Molenbeek)
>Jihadists specifically targeting Europeans
>All those protests in Europe about how Islam will take over the world and freedom and democracy is shit compared to sharia
sounds reasonable enough
>>334702354
also
>Islam
>Race
>>>tumblr
explain in detail how Islam is a hereditary trait passed down genetically, do it
maybe it is, since apostasy and blasphemy is a serious crime in Muslim countries
>>334702663
If you think that bombing the shit out of their countries and supporting the dictators they tried to overthrow will not make them cling onto what they consider traditional values, you're retarded
>>334702928
What do muslim refugees have to do with ISIS terrorists, you idiot?
>>334703101
>I can't read
They are insanely fun to read sometimes.
>>334703345
>What do muslim refugees have to do with ISIS terrorists, you idiot?
bigger cuck that I thought, don't you know how many ISIS are mixed in those oh so poor refugees? and how much they could recruit more from them?
and most of them are only economic migrants, not actual refugees anyway
>If you think that bombing the shit out of their countries and supporting the dictators they tried to overthrow will not make them cling onto what they consider traditional values, you're retarded
Yeah that still explains the blasphemy laws, apostasy laws and more backwards retardation
>>334703815
>don't you know how many ISIS are mixed in those oh so poor refugees?
I actually don't, care to provide some sources? Because from what I've seen, all the terrorists in Europe are european-raised and the refugees are actually running away from ISIS, Assaad and other dictators/terrorists/conflicts amongst them
>and most of them are only economic migrants, not actual refugees anyway
And? Does that change anything?
>>334703815
The problem is that nobody bothered both to accomodate them AND give them a better alternative to their backwards "traditional values", it's always one or the other:
either Europe with disguise persecuton of Muslims as "cultural enrichment", forcing them to cling onto Islam or they will allow muslims only to organize into what are essentially ghettos.
Nobody actually bothered integrating those 2nd-generation muslims into french of belgian society, that's why they turned to ISIS.
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