Steam has serious problems with Paid Reviews

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Werdna 18. srp. v 21.32

For example Majesty 1's top review: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/tmwarwolf/recommended/25990/ - Why would anyone call it "Game_Name HD" instead of just "Game_Name"? Such "AI written" reviews are common thing on steam already. And it's not just this one example. Steam has serious damn problem with paid reviews. If you'll look closely to usual "front-page" reviews - they feature same exact lingo, for example:
- "Don't look at my playtime, I played it on different platform"
Yes of course, every second game has a review that starts with this one. SOOO MANY guys with barely 10 hours played coincedentally putted 5k hours+ into the game, just, oh the coincidence, not on steam!
This said reviews also, almost constantly, have not only the most likes to them, they're also gapped from other reviews massively which suggests - Paid reviews are posted, bots mass-liked them, they disappear, suddenly, it's the usual <100 likes TOPS for all the other reviews.
I'm 100% certain Valve has access to statistic and can easily spot "unnatural" behavior since they can automatically detect reviews that are "off-topic" so when are they going to Punish and apply penalties on Publishers that perform such tricks?
I mean there're literal accounts with 10k+ games, each game there being played for barely 10h, yet they have 10k+ reviews, LITERALLY indicates that accounts are not for gaming but for reviewing PURELY.
You don't even need to go too far - most, if not ALL early reviews are self-flagging themselves as "Game not personally bought"/"Gifted" - you can start from there.
Or, at the very least, ENFORCE opened comments on ALL reviews. Reviews must be reviews by others, otherwise they're just ads and not "Share of experience".

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SLG 18. srp. v 22.01

The game is called that:
https://steamhost.cn/app/25990/Majesty_Gold_HD/

eram 18. srp. v 22.15

Good review, marked as helpful

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 18. srp. v 22.15

Werdna původně napsal:
Steam has serious problems with Paid Reviews

For example Majesty 1's top review: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/tmwarwolf/recommended/25990/ - Why would anyone call it "Game_Name HD" instead of just "Game_Name"? Such "AI written" reviews are common thing on steam already. And it's not just this one example. Steam has serious damn problem with paid reviews. If you'll look closely to usual "front-page" reviews - they feature same exact lingo, for example:
- "Don't look at my playtime, I played it on different platform"
Yes of course, every second game has a review that starts with this one. SOOO MANY guys with barely 10 hours played coincedentally putted 5k hours+ into the game, just, oh the coincidence, not on steam!
This said reviews also, almost constantly, have not only the most likes to them, they're also gapped from other reviews massively which suggests - Paid reviews are posted, bots mass-liked them, they disappear, suddenly, it's the usual <100 likes TOPS for all the other reviews.
I'm 100% certain Valve has access to statistic and can easily spot "unnatural" behavior since they can automatically detect reviews that are "off-topic" so when are they going to Punish and apply penalties on Publishers that perform such tricks?
I mean there're literal accounts with 10k+ games, each game there being played for barely 10h, yet they have 10k+ reviews, LITERALLY indicates that accounts are not for gaming but for reviewing PURELY.
You don't even need to go too far - most, if not ALL early reviews are self-flagging themselves as "Game not personally bought"/"Gifted" - you can start from there.
Or, at the very least, ENFORCE opened comments on ALL reviews. Reviews must be reviews by others, otherwise they're just ads and not "Share of experience".

Valve defaulted comments on reviews to off due to the amount of harassment people have been receiving.

And you wanting them to be enforced on doesn't stray too far from that.

2-lane road...

Nx Machina 19. srp. v 2.29

Majesty Gold HD is the name of the name. 9.9 hours played. The review is well written.

Barely 10 hours played? You wrote three reviews at 3.5 hours 0.2 hours and 1.0 hours.

As for comments they are OFF by default due to it being the reviewers choice.

And finally report any reviews you deem are paid for BUT Steam Support may disagree.

As for a.i the review you linked if from 2017.

Naposledy upravil Nx Machina; 19. srp. v 5.14

Nev Nev 19. srp. v 4.03

I played the originals of many of these older games that get re-released as "HD's" or some other new title. I also call them with the "HD" in the title, because it is different from the original. I see them as two different game versions, because most of the time they are. Even a little change can make a game vastly different from the original.

If you don't find reviews helpful, you can always ignore them. It's like growing up without the internet, we had magazines with reviews in them, but we didn't have to read them. On Steam you have reviews that can be one word, A.I., or even utter gibberish that's a bunch of random letters together. Some even put an ASCII art picture. It's a review system by users that can be abused, misused, is untrustworthy, and at the end of the day it's just one random persons opinion or post on the internet. The reviews on Steam are no different than comments on a Youtube video or a post on Reddit. What trust and stock you put into random people on the internet is up to you.

There's a lot you could say are bad about the review system, but, if you don't find it useful then don't use it. Just ignore it bruh.

Pocahawtness 19. srp. v 4.14

People do tend to rush reviews to be the first to get one out.

You watch, with the upcoming release of Borederlands 4, people can get a lot of views and make a lot of money (on social media) with reviews that hit the platform quickly. There will be a flood of early reviews. The only way to get GOOD reviews is to wait a month, until people have played the entire game and had time to dig in to the finer points, but buyers are just not going to wait that long.
I guarantee you that I will do a Steam review on the same day it's released but it won't be very accurate. Just my initial impressions.

Naposledy upravil Pocahawtness; 19. srp. v 4.15

ペンギン 19. srp. v 4.27

Werdna původně napsal:
For example Majesty 1's top review: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/tmwarwolf/recommended/25990/ - Why would anyone call it "Game_Name HD" instead of just "Game_Name"?

In my case, i always mention the products by their full product name. That's how it should be.

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Such "AI written" reviews are common thing on steam already. And it's not just this one example.

So you're assuming that a review was written with AI? Insinuation without proof.

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...playtime...

For my work as example, a page-long comprehensive product review can be written within a few seconds of playing. However, i also serve a different focus and target group.

Regardless of that, playtime on Steam has nothing to say. Never had. One can run a product for days and unlock achievements manually without anyone actively using anything at all.

Werdna původně napsal:
Steam has serious problems with Paid Reviews

In general. Have a look at your "reviews". They are nothing more than personal opinions and bs. NOT even close "product reviews". And that's what the core problem is on this platform.

To quote some "reviews" by you

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Thank god there's Chinese non-cucs to balance out review rating.

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This review has been banned by a Steam moderator for violating the Steam Terms of Service. It cannot be modified by the reviewer.

Unable to write even "product reviews" themselves, only producing rubbish content and complaining about others?

In what way is this supposed to help customers with their purchase decision or existing customers?

The majority of users on this platform understand neither the meaning nor the term “review”, but that's exactly what the developers want to see. Unfortunately, this behavior is very widespread on this platform... Even Valve Corporation itself makes fun of you as the “general” Steam player.

Stupid, there's no other way to put it.

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The "ai accusations/arguments" these days has become a good way to discredit others on Steam.

The rest is not even worth commenting.

Naposledy upravil ペンギン; 19. srp. v 5.04

Fierman 19. srp. v 4.40

That review was written 8 years ago, well before LLM 's were a thing.

robilar5500 19. srp. v 8.43

People do in fact play games on other platforms as well. I've got like 1000 hours in ESO on the PS4/5. I've got like 15 hours on Steam. I've got probably 800 hours in Skyrim on PSN. I had like 10 hours in the vanilla version on Steam. For example.

In reading that mess of an OP, none of your criteria for identifying false reviews actually hold up.

Kiryn 19. srp. v 8.49

Pocahawtness původně napsal:
People do tend to rush reviews to be the first to get one out.

You watch, with the upcoming release of Borederlands 4, people can get a lot of views and make a lot of money (on social media) with reviews that hit the platform quickly. There will be a flood of early reviews.

Heck, there'll probably be a ton of reviews in the first 5 minutes from people who've decided on some thing the hate about the game due to previews or other things. Like "omg, how dare there be day 1 DLC" reviews, or "zomg, it's woke because <dumb reason>" reviews, etc.
Possibly organized on a discord or reddit, with a bunch of people primed to buy, "review", and refund because of whatever they're moaning about.

Naposledy upravil Kiryn; 19. srp. v 8.49

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