This is why I claim that ratings systems and voting systems are broken, they're an objective failure for any kind of real feedback because of how everything is gamified using bot farms or NPC mobs. I would take the ratings systems away entirely and just do it with comments and how many copies sold.
That people are cucks wanting to be a milquetoast faggot afraid to give offense even when trying to give advice on whether or not someone should purchase a product?
Mixed or neutral is negative. If a game isn't good enough to earn a positive review it's bad. If you're so neutral on it you can't make up your mind, then A: it's bad, because it's a waste of time to play something "neutral" or B: you don't need to review at all.
I disagree and I'd write that from the perspective of a gamer as well, sometimes a game can be 'meh' or there are some good enough points for you not to outright hate it. Rather uncharacteristically for the internet these are people who are clearly wanting to be fair and I've read their reviews before as well on why they want a mixed button because there is such a thing as a product you can be mixed on.
The comments are just as pozzed. I remember when IMDB had messege boards for every movie, even total crap. But they removed them because they couldn't "keep people safe." Which really means they didn't want to mod shit.
I know people shit on leftists for being snowflakes but there is something to be said sometimes for the kind of shit that gets posted up by nutcases and other types these days. You may wonder why every dev has a discord server instead of reddit or using the steam forums, this shit is exactly why and I can't necessarily blame them. I mean we've seen how much this site alone simply being on clearnet gets creepy spam so it's no wonder things are getting more closed off in response now.
I don't like the idea of having absolutely everything privated and locked but at the same time what exactly are you supposed to do?
I would take the ratings systems away entirely and just do it with comments
How is that any different? Isn't what a player review already is, apart from the additional thumb up / thumb down? How will it fix what you're complaining about?
how many copies sold.
Unfortunately, I don't think Valve is legally allowed to do that. But anyway, again, how would that solve anything you're criticising?
You'd still have retards gaming the system but it would be a lot more obvious, with copies sold you could also see how many people have actually paid for the game versus who's just paid then refunded in order to be a dick which is yes something that people do. I'm not writing it's a magical solution or anything but it might calm things down a bit but as it stands there's no way anyone on either side of things can claim this current system is good by any stretch.
I don't think we'll ever get rid of this kind of thing entirely, but you can at least make it so that it's way more visible. You look on steam games that have been botted up the rankings and read what's there you quickly see it's accounts using the exact same posts for every game.
This is why I claim that ratings systems and voting systems are broken, they're an objective failure for any kind of real feedback because of how everything is gamified using bot farms or NPC mobs. I would take the ratings systems away entirely and just do it with comments and how many copies sold.
Also Steam's review system sucks IMO, Thumbs up or Thumbs Down isn't the best system to judge a game.
People have been wanting a mixed/neutral button for ages which tells you something.
That people are cucks wanting to be a milquetoast faggot afraid to give offense even when trying to give advice on whether or not someone should purchase a product?
Mixed or neutral is negative. If a game isn't good enough to earn a positive review it's bad. If you're so neutral on it you can't make up your mind, then A: it's bad, because it's a waste of time to play something "neutral" or B: you don't need to review at all.
I disagree and I'd write that from the perspective of a gamer as well, sometimes a game can be 'meh' or there are some good enough points for you not to outright hate it. Rather uncharacteristically for the internet these are people who are clearly wanting to be fair and I've read their reviews before as well on why they want a mixed button because there is such a thing as a product you can be mixed on.
The comments are just as pozzed. I remember when IMDB had messege boards for every movie, even total crap. But they removed them because they couldn't "keep people safe." Which really means they didn't want to mod shit.
I know people shit on leftists for being snowflakes but there is something to be said sometimes for the kind of shit that gets posted up by nutcases and other types these days. You may wonder why every dev has a discord server instead of reddit or using the steam forums, this shit is exactly why and I can't necessarily blame them. I mean we've seen how much this site alone simply being on clearnet gets creepy spam so it's no wonder things are getting more closed off in response now.
I don't like the idea of having absolutely everything privated and locked but at the same time what exactly are you supposed to do?
How is that any different? Isn't what a player review already is, apart from the additional thumb up / thumb down? How will it fix what you're complaining about?
Unfortunately, I don't think Valve is legally allowed to do that. But anyway, again, how would that solve anything you're criticising?
You'd still have retards gaming the system but it would be a lot more obvious, with copies sold you could also see how many people have actually paid for the game versus who's just paid then refunded in order to be a dick which is yes something that people do. I'm not writing it's a magical solution or anything but it might calm things down a bit but as it stands there's no way anyone on either side of things can claim this current system is good by any stretch.
I don't think we'll ever get rid of this kind of thing entirely, but you can at least make it so that it's way more visible. You look on steam games that have been botted up the rankings and read what's there you quickly see it's accounts using the exact same posts for every game.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III has nearly 140k reviews. How many do you read before making a decision?
Or if you're Steam, how do you sort reviews?
How many are bots doing positive reviews for internet points and people who hate Activision?