If your opinion is mixed and you feel so strongly about that, that you can't justify a positive or negative review, then your opinion does not serve the purpose of a review system to begin with, which is to inform purchase decisions.
And if a game is "meh" or can't justify a positive value judgement, then that should justify a negative. Because the game costs the consumer money, it should at least be a positive.
The neutral opinion is no review - if someone absolutely must tell the world that they don't have an actual opinion either way, that's just narcissism.
Feedback for the developer isn't the primary purpose of the review system, though. That's what the forums are for. The review system is for informing consumers.
I get plenty of value from reviews. First thing I do is check negative reviews to see if many of them are talking about similar problems. Positive reviews are a very mixed bag, but the negative side is usually decent for highlighting major issues and much faster than forum crawling. Positive reviews are mostly just simping, but if someone I know has good taste posts one or it's getting a lot of comparisons to other games I like I'll give it a second look if I was on the fence.
It's a tool, that used along with others informs the consumer. It's not ideal as a sole metric, but it's useful to look at aggregate opinions.
If your opinion is mixed and you feel so strongly about that, that you can't justify a positive or negative review, then your opinion does not serve the purpose of a review system to begin with, which is to inform purchase decisions.
And if a game is "meh" or can't justify a positive value judgement, then that should justify a negative. Because the game costs the consumer money, it should at least be a positive.
The neutral opinion is no review - if someone absolutely must tell the world that they don't have an actual opinion either way, that's just narcissism.
Feedback for the developer isn't the primary purpose of the review system, though. That's what the forums are for. The review system is for informing consumers.
I get plenty of value from reviews. First thing I do is check negative reviews to see if many of them are talking about similar problems. Positive reviews are a very mixed bag, but the negative side is usually decent for highlighting major issues and much faster than forum crawling. Positive reviews are mostly just simping, but if someone I know has good taste posts one or it's getting a lot of comparisons to other games I like I'll give it a second look if I was on the fence.
It's a tool, that used along with others informs the consumer. It's not ideal as a sole metric, but it's useful to look at aggregate opinions.