200 characters vote, why force 200, if I consider a game to be bad I can say that with just a few words
200 characters vote, why to force 200
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Because creators expect you to explain a reason for a negative review?
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Who are the reviews for?
A review isn't for you to rate a game as "bad" or "good", it's for other users to find out why this game is good or bad.
If someone only writes "It sucks ass!" it won't help anyone who reads the review.
A review isn't for you to rate a game as "bad" or "good", it's for other users to find out why this game is good or bad.
If someone only writes "It sucks ass!" it won't help anyone who reads the review.
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You are wrong.
This site is mainly for pirates, devs are welcome, but if they act up, they'd kicked out.
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game reviews are sometimes negative, not all game reviews are given positive feedback. however if you consider a game to be bad, why would you write a review for a game explaining your negativity in just a few profane words? that is not considered a game review, if you are going to review game write about it in a more professional manner. rather than just using a few incoherent words of profanity.
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While members who read the reviews expect that you'll explain why you like the game, to know if it fit their own taste.
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I feel like 200 characters should be "encouraged" but not enforced. For instance, if the game crashes on startup that is all that matters, and 3 paragraphs are not needed. Also, some people just prefer brevity.
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If the game crashes on start up you wouldn't be able to review the "game" any ways and would instead submit a bug report.
Then they shouldn't leave reviews,
Your reply was 210 characters, if they are too lazy to write that much for a review then they don't have much worth saying.
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The problem is that its not just "reviews". RATINGS require 200 characters.
I could even understand the 200 character thing for reviews if basic ratings didn't require arbitrary text goals.
I can't be the only one that doesn't spend 10 minutes reading reviews for every game I try and just makes the determination for whether to try something based on how many *s it has.
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Ratings without review is just the fact of some jerks who haven't understood that they are expected to fap on the game, not on their own ego.
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Rating without reviewing is actually really common on most major websites as an option.
Steam, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Amazon, and so very many others all allow this form of feedback.
Of course its not as valuable. That's why reviews are always encouraged, but its better than no feedback at all.
And right now I'd suggest that is why so many games have zero reviews (or just as commonly only 1-5).
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The plain fact is that the vocal minority has had a larger amount of people prove they can not be trusted to rate games.
You have been a member since 2017, you are currently in general discussions, there is no way you have not seen how some people act on the forums, now you want to allow those people and their 10 alt accounts to 1 star every game that has a kink they don't like in it?
Also are you forgetting how the system you are proposing was abused in steam when players bombed skyrim because of paid mods?
Those were NOT ratings or reviews of skyrim but of Bethesda's policies.
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"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was review bombed in 2015 by customers after the game's introduction of paid mods, leading Valve to reverse their decision and remove the paid mod functionality. Additional review bombs for Skyrim as well as fellow Bethesda Softworks game Fallout 4, occurred following the launch of Bethesda's Creation Club in September 2017, which reintroduced the potential for paid mods."
What do you think people will do who feel a dev is milking, rate the game or the dev?
What about people who have had trouble in the game thread? bomb the rating because someone they don't like, likes the game?
What about people who loose it because they made a request to have something added or removed from the game and it was ignored or rejected?
Their fav character not getting an update fast enough?
What about no sex with "x" fast enough?
The list goes on and none of those are a good reason to tank / bomb a rating but you can bet people will.
With reviews and the help of the community reporting BS reviews you get something close to useful information.
Without, you get useless information and don't know if people hate the game or the dev or some random choice.
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I didn't said that it's not common, but that people who are doing this are self absorbed persons who have a way too high opinion of themselves that lead them to highly overestimate their place in the world.
No one care about what they think about this or that, mostly because they are clearly unable to just think.
And it's a problem because ?
It's adult games, mostly focused on porn for the majority of them. Less than one member over 100,000 care about giving them a rating.
This especially since it's not like for porn videos, where most people are forced to stay on the page to watch it, and therefore are directly in position to comment or rate it. Here it's games, you've to download the content from an external site, then install it. And playing it will need times (with chance more than the average porn video). Only few people care enough to come back to the thread after they played, in order to rate and review it.