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Facing a recent trend of "review-bombing," Valve has launched a histogram feature for each game's page. The histograms will provide a snapshot of review trends of the particular game as certain users are targeting developers who's action they disagree with and putting up negatively reviews not based alone on the game's quality.
Valve explored a few different solutions with one idea being the removal of the Review Score, but changed course due to player demanding for scores in the past. As of now, Valve has chosen to have potential customers put a bit more effort when deciding on a purchase.
You can read the entire blog post at this link.
In short, review bombs make it harder for the Review Score to achieve its goal of accurately representing the likelihood that you'd be happy with your purchase if you bought a game. We thought it would be good to fix that, if we could do it in a way that didn't stop players from being able to voice their opinions.
Valve explored a few different solutions with one idea being the removal of the Review Score, but changed course due to player demanding for scores in the past. As of now, Valve has chosen to have potential customers put a bit more effort when deciding on a purchase.
You can read the entire blog post at this link.
In short, review bombs make it harder for the Review Score to achieve its goal of accurately representing the likelihood that you'd be happy with your purchase if you bought a game. We thought it would be good to fix that, if we could do it in a way that didn't stop players from being able to voice their opinions.