The OS itself has very little impact on the game.

Originally posted by Zefar:

The OS itself has very little impact on the game.

If someone is leaving a negative review because a game doesn't run well on an unsupported operating system then the OS version is relevant.

Optionally? Sure, otherwise hard no.

Though it would be funny if the checkbox included the Android version of my phione should I make a review. :D

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Zefar:

The OS itself has very little impact on the game.

If someone is leaving a negative review because a game doesn't run well on an unsupported operating system then the OS version is relevant.

It will mostly will result in people thinking correlation and causation are linked when it's not.

A little pointless IMO.

Originally posted by Ƭime:

Based on so many recent reviews I've read (especially negatives), I'd really love to know what operating system the reviewer played on.

If there was an optional check box for the OS they used, that would be amazing!

It would make me and probably many others feel more secure about their decision to purchase a game!

Be prepared for a whole slew of games that are suddenly being played on MS-DOS, OP. It's ultimately going to be a completely irrelevant field. There is far more involved than just the OS that causes performance issues.

I've played plenty of games on an unsupported OS with no issues. I've played games on fully recommeded systems and have had nothing but issues.

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by Ƭime:

Based on so many recent reviews I've read (especially negatives), I'd really love to know what operating system the reviewer played on.

If there was an optional check box for the OS they used, that would be amazing!

It would make me and probably many others feel more secure about their decision to purchase a game!

Be prepared for a whole slew of games that are suddenly being played on MS-DOS, OP. It's ultimately going to be a completely irrelevant field. There is far more involved than just the OS that causes performance issues.

I've played plenty of games on an unsupported OS with no issues. I've played games on fully recommeded systems and have had nothing but issues.

If it's a text field I'll write "it has a compact cassette, that old."

Originally posted by Zefar:

The OS itself has very little impact on the game.

Games have very different performance characteristics on my Windows computer, my Steam Deck, and my Linux computer.

But as you said, that's not because of the operating system. That's because one of them is a laptop, one is a handheld, and all three have very different screen resolutions and control mechanisms. There's a LOT of factors that are more important than operating system, and Steam can't collect and share all the data that could potentially matter for privacy reasons. (Not to mention that the method of figuring out a lot of those pieces of data would leave a lot of room for error.)

On the whole, it doesn't really matter what each individual review says or why it says that, because you can look for reviews that were helpful to a lot of people or just look at the overall score and usually get a pretty good idea of the sentiment around a game. And in my experience, most reviews are not about performance.

If they are constantly crashing and left a negative review, I then wish I could find out more. If it's optional, only the people that want to include the info can.

Older windows 7 games that have been updated to work on 10/11 come to mind.

I like to research out a game before I buy it instead of banking on a refund. I don't want to dig through multiple posts in the games discussion in the hopes of discovering this same info - often not finding it there. Again, I'd like to know if the OS could be causing the crash even though as many have stated here, hardware also is a factor.

Originally posted by Ƭime:

Based on so many recent reviews I've read (especially negatives), I'd really love to know what operating system the reviewer played on.

If there was an optional check box for the OS they used, that would be amazing!

It would make me and probably many others feel more secure about their decision to purchase a game!

I do not base reviews on the person's setup as ryu will still perform a hadouken the same way on my setup vs the reviewer's. Unless a game it somehow programmed to run different or in some way changes the features/mechanics of the game then system/os has zero to do with the game other than someone's system not meeting the requirements which can be ignored. But that is the beauty of reading more than 1 review, if you see a majority of the reviews indicate the game runs, then the game runs, at that point you can then base the review on the game itself as intended.