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.
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.