Watch out, the fangirls will tell you this is somehow a good thing.

Originally posted by Doggy:

Steam CHANGES Review Score System Silently! Manipulating Scores To Protect Companies?

https://youtu.be/fPNoXUt1T0Y?si=gJtWpLd_7ZsFbTBD

tl;dr: The reviews YOU will see will depend on your accounts LANGUAGE.
There goes the transparency and good-will Valve has been building and enjoying the past 25 year...

They literally made a speaker news to announce that just the other day.

Please try harder to farm your clown awards. It is not even worth rolling my eyes to those anymore...

Thread title: Steam CHANGES Review Score System Silently! Manipulating Scores To Protect Companies?

Silently? It was announced to everyone via the newsfeed bell icon.

https://steamhost.cn/news/app/593110/view/500579345320904529?l=english

As for:

Originally posted by Doggy:

https://youtu.be/fPNoXUt1T0Y?si=gJtWpLd_7ZsFbTBD

tl;dr: The reviews YOU will see will depend on your accounts LANGUAGE.
There goes the transparency and good-will Valve has been building and enjoying the past 25 year...

Ah! A clickbait YouTube video.

From the newsfeed: (transparency)

If you want to go back to seeing the Overall Review Score based on all user reviews, ignoring your language, you can change that setting in your Store preferences.

You can read the full announcement instead of a random YT channel no one has ever heard of...

https://steamhost.cn/news/app/593110/view/500579345320904529

That Youtuber is a click-hunting grifter. Her kind is known for fabricating fake outrage. You can still see the total average review score on the STORE PAGE of the game, just above the section where the reviews are starting.
Example:
- Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of War definitive edition:
75% positive reviews total
78% positive reviews in English.

What would be a far more interesting thing would be YouTube changing their algorithms and policies away from encouraging and promoting garbage clickbait trash like that linked.

Originally posted by Doggy:

https://youtu.be/fPNoXUt1T0Y?si=gJtWpLd_7ZsFbTBD

tl;dr: The reviews YOU will see will depend on your accounts LANGUAGE.
There goes the transparency and good-will Valve has been building and enjoying the past 25 year...

As someone who doesn't pay much if any attention to this I could care less.

When I see a game I want to buy (because I know what games I like playing, duh) I buy it.

Honestly WHY would I want to read a review in a language I don't understand anyways?

Wow ... just wow.

LOL at all these young zoom zooms thinking that NOT following some Steam news 24/7 = "clout farming". Seems like this place has indeed bent the knee as well...

Originally posted by Doggy:

LOL at all these young zoom zooms thinking that NOT following some Steam news 24/7 = "clout farming". Seems like this place has indeed bent the knee as well...

Says the guy who didn't bother clicking on an icon flashing on his Steam client and then get totally flabbergasted by fake news and decide it's their life goal to spread said misinformation on the site.

Even worse, this last reply of yours seem to point at the fact that you haven't even realised how ridiculous this whole thing that you tried to start is.

Originally posted by Doggy:

LOL at all these young zoom zooms thinking that NOT following some Steam news 24/7 = "clout farming". Seems like this place has indeed bent the knee as well...

Dont know ♥♥♥♥: Dont post ♥♥♥♥.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Originally posted by Doggy:

Steam CHANGES Review Score System Silently! Manipulating Scores To Protect Companies?

https://youtu.be/fPNoXUt1T0Y?si=gJtWpLd_7ZsFbTBD

tl;dr: The reviews YOU will see will depend on your accounts LANGUAGE.
There goes the transparency and good-will Valve has been building and enjoying the past 25 year...

They literally made a speaker news to announce that just the other day.

Please try harder to farm your clown awards. It is not even worth rolling my eyes to those anymore...

Yea it was not silent. That blue speaker things was glowing. I read about it.

OP has a valid point about it being silent. Text does not read itself. From now on, all announcements should be in the form of 30 second or less autoplaying videos, at least half of which should be someone saying something like "you won't believe this Steam news that just dropped!"

Clickbait videos and failing to read tend to go hand in hand I've noticed.

It wasn't silent. They sent out an alert to all accounts which detailed the new policies.

And it only applies to games with 2000 or more reviews that also has 200 or more reviews in a single language. And it likely has an option to see all reviews same as always.

Very publicly announced change: check
Ragebait YouTuber who doesn't understand change: check
Sheeple who believe ragebait YouTuber: check

I guess it's another day with the letter "a" in it.