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PsychoPsyops 2 Jul @ 8:46am
Need ‘Neutral’ Review Rating
Sometimes a game is just so average, you do not feel strongly one way or another about it overall and we need a neutral review rating to reflect this.

A work around is to not review it, however I would still like to say or point out things about a game for others, without the mandatory positive or negative review.

To only allow polarization is not a good idea, especially in times like these when the world in general is more polarized than it’s ever been.
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rawWwRrr 2 Jul @ 8:48am 
Neutral = No

There's a big box to describe your opinions about the game. That's where you explain why you chose the recommendation that you did.
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Duel Sundown 2 Jul @ 8:50am 
Originally posted by rawWwRrr:
Neutral = No

There's a big box to describe your opinions about the game. That's where you explain why you chose the recommendation that you did.

+1
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Tanoomba 2 Jul @ 8:51am 
The value of any individual review is derived entirely from the content of that review.
The value of the score aggregate derives from a large number of reviews. It honestly doesn't matter whether any individual review is "recommend" or "don't recommend".
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rawWwRrr 2 Jul @ 8:53am 
I saw a screenshot on Reddit the other day of someone who wanted to give a 5-atar review, but because they hate the color yellow, and the stars were yellow, they marked it as 1-star.
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GridNom XP 2 Jul @ 8:57am 
Knowing the audience, 80%+ games and products then will have 'neutral' reviews literally on every review.
Devs and players won't reach any conclusion afterwards.
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Ben Lubar 2 Jul @ 10:57am 
"Should I play the game you played?"

If your answer is "I don't have an answer to that", then you just don't have an answer to that. If you still feel a need to tell people you don't have an answer to the question they came to get an answer to, start a curator group.
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Mr. Smiles 2 Jul @ 11:36am 
Do you recommend the game?

"eh".

Not helpful.
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New Dawn™ 2 Jul @ 12:34pm 
No they don't need this. You either approve or disapprove. It would screw up the rating system lol.
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Nx Machina 2 Jul @ 1:31pm 
You are asked a question - Do you recommend this game to other players? and the answer is either yes or no and in the text box you explain why.

Neutral is a shrug of the shoulders and defaults to no.
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Knee 2 Jul @ 1:36pm 
Originally posted by PsychoPsyops:
To only allow polarization is not a good idea, especially in times like these when the world in general is more polarized than it’s ever been.
This is simply nonsense
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Tito Shivan 2 Jul @ 2:01pm 
The thing is Steam "reviews" aren't really "reviews".
They're more like recommendations or endorsements (hence their binary yes/no nature). An actual review wouldn't necessarily have to be binary.

But Steam decided to call them "reviews" so now we have people doing a thing believing they're doing another.
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vova.khayan.84 4 Jul @ 1:47am 
Originally posted by rawWwRrr:
Neutral = No

There's a big box to describe your opinions about the game. That's where you explain why you chose the recommendation that you did.

Вот только в первую очередь человек смотрит на саму оценку.И даже если автор ругает игру,но остался ей более-менее доволен,то для читателя будет стоять лайк+критика=похвала.Кстати,поэтому и было изменено на "крайне положительные" и т.п.А "плохие" и "негативные" были убраны.
Именно поэтому я и читаю ТОЛЬКО негативные отзывы,т.к. более реальные отзывы.
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