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#5

I’m not going to stick around for five minutes on a copied bait and switch game I got fooled into joining though

I think comments/reviews should be limited and the limits get less and less the more active/positive you are in the community

I like this reviews idea along with having a separate discussion tab

Edit: [quote=“101PILOT, post:3, topic:20901”]
EDIT: It would also be cool if the game/group owner could directly respond to concerns that people express in their reviews.
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YES, nexus mod site comes to mind

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#6

We still have the Thumbs up / Thumbs down system for that, so that we can basically kick it off the games page.

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#7

I was only giving a rough number, but other players usually stick around in a game long enough to qualify do this.

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#8

Reviews could/should be anonymous to prevent creators giving rewards for good reviews and to protect people from flaming.

And possibly something along the lines of voting if a review is helpful or not could be interesting, although having a sort like that may be vulnerable for abuse.

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#9

Or make it against the rules and ban the devs that do that.

I like the idea of being able to write an anonymous review if you wanted though

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#10

Yeah because unlike the comments pages, the review might stick at the top for quite a while, and you don’t want kids getting loads of hate mail for some review they left on a game from people that disagree with the review (if the creator tells them to do so).

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#11

There should be a “post anonymous” check box for that.

Also, we should be able to re-edit our review.

Being able to mark something as helpful would be amazing, and also a way to mark something as spam. (Once the review has hit 20 spam marks, it’s hidden from sight. You can click open a spam review anyways to see the contents. After 50 spam marks, the review is hidden for eternity, aka 1/0.)

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#12

One thing I think we would need is Anonymous reviews, so we can post reviews, and no one will be able to find out who posted it, so say a scam game is stealing accounts, and people who try to stop it post a review warning people, the scammer could basically attack that person as an example, Steam does not have anonymous reviews, but its also a more adult audience, so it isn’t a problem.

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#13

The google play store has anonymous reviews, also it has a way for the developer to reply to a review.

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#14

Something like what steam has would make me happy with ratings on the actual reviews which encourage more quality reviews.

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#15

100% support. It’ll do a lot to stop spammers (not fix it, but still improved). Also it’ll help us game devs actually know what went wrong in the user experience instead of getting 59 thumbs up and 1 thumbs down and not knowing why…

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#16

Exactly, we could finally understand why the hell we got some random thumbs down…

#17

I think that is a bad mindset that the two of you have, that’s like acting your game is superior and no one could ever have a valid reason to dislike it…

People should still be able to leave a like/dislike always without having to write an essay first.

#18

I did not mean to come off like that, I realize people should have the right to leave any rating they want, for whatever reason.

I’m thinking about this kind of system for developmental reasons, especially when your game is in its early stages and you want the users input.

Lets say I release my game, and all I get is people thumbing it down, I have no way of finding out why they did it, or whats going wrong. (Unless they left a comment, but that’s mostly spam anyways…)
If the users had a way to properly review a game and possibly state why they disliked/liked it, I would have much more to work off of and learn from to further improve upon the game.

I take it personally when people down vote my game. I don’t get mad, but I get motivation to improve upon the game and turn possible future downvotes, to upvotes. This would be SO much easier, if we could get proper feedback in the form of reviews from players.

#19

What if you spent tickets to leave a review? All users get them free on a daily basis and it would prevent spam bots from making 234234 posts a day. Only users that actually care will pay the tickets to leave their opinion.

#20

Then every smart money saving kid (FAR more common than you’d assume) would never review games.

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#21

They should just use CAPTCHA, if we’re only talking about the problem with spam bots.

#22

I shouldn’t have to be inconvenienced just to be inconvenienced again.

#23

Also the reviews would probably either be drastically good or drastically bad.

Example: This game sucks so much I’m spending tickets to tell you how bad it is

This game is so great I am spending tickets to tell you how good it is.

Not many people will leave a review that is “Was ok. Mainly indifferent” because they have no investment in it.

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#25

There isn’t a downvote button on the dev forums lol

I’m kind of the opposite of depressed that it’s having positive feedback discussion tbh

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