Good for stuff like Chinese review bombing.
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I feel like it's also a way to limit review bombing, like what happened for recent games regarding privacy policy changes
I'm not a fan of it
EDIT: Did you change your comment? I think it wasn't like this, because my answer doesn't make sense
https://www.thegamer.com/wuchang-fallen-feathers-review-bomb-censorship-update-changes-patch/
Could be from stuff akin to this. This is the second bombing of Wuchang, first was post-launch due to UE5 spec demands
...were those reviews from some specific languages?
I believe they often start in english only. This might limit the impact for non-english speakers
What if I actually want to see the review bombing and it's effect before buying the product ?
Really, the more I think about this change, the less convincing it is. It will hide review bombing of games that might have warn you of something.. I think it will just muddy and make the Steam score way harder to assess and use.
I personally like seeing review bombing as well, it was always relevant to me, despite what Steam says
Steam already marked review bombing as off-topic before, which don't factor into the score by default, and you have to specifically select to see them.
You can disable this language filter, along with the off-topic filter (you should be able to disable them separately though, which you can't currently).
It's worth adding that you can disable this filter permanently. It's not a thing you temporarily disable while you're on a specific game's store page; if you disable it, it disables it for every game until you turn it back on. So that's nice.
It's definitely because of that.
I like it, but currently I see two possible improvements, that I hope get added down the line.
First, being able to give a list of languages you want to factor into the score, so it's not just your current Steam language.
Second, I'd like the toggle to disable the language filter and off-topic review filter to be separate.
Both are pretty minor for me, since I think the default settings are fine, but giving people more options is better.
First, being able to give a list of languages you want to factor into the score, so it’s not just your current Steam language.
I think it currently chooses the languages you've allowed to see for reviews if I remember correctly, or the game languages you allowed to see
As far as I can tell, it just uses whatever language you use Steam in. If that language doesn't have enough reviews, it defaults to all languages.
I also just tried and set German as a secondary language, but it still just shows the score for English reviews. It doesn't even mention German at the bottom of the page, where you get the summary, only all languages and English (and recent). If I change the language for the store, it also changes the source for the review score.
The actual reviews at the bottom of the page (Most Helpful and Recent) are pulled from the languages you've allowed, so I now see English and German reviews (and a Korean one, but maybe that user just uses Steam in English, but posted the review in Korean?).
So they're not actually checking the review for the language used. So they must be storing a tag with the review as to what language that reviewers steam is set to. I can see problems with this right there, a lot of people will have steam in whatever their desired language is, say German, but will post reviews in English. It seems like these reviews won't be taken into account because they'll be incorrectly tagged as German.
The thing you're describing definitely happens. Just did a quick check with Steam in German and every game had a few reviews in English (just checking the preview of Most Helpful and Most Recent at the bottom of the store page). Other languages are more affected, like Swedish, where most of the reviews are in English.
I don't really see a good solution to this. If Steam is able to correctly detect the language and only show your native one, most of the time you'll probably end up with a handful of reviews, and then Steam has to show you something else (probably English) anyway. I think currently it's good enough, since you still get the perspective of someone from (probably) your regional or cultural background, even if the language might not fit.
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Perfect for reviews like “Game is great, visuals are great, no bugs, it’s very fun, but the developer was not polite enough to the glorious Chinese Communist Party, and was a week late on providing a Chinese translation. Never support these xenophobes.”
God I wish I was exaggerating. Chinese gamers seem to have a huge victim complex.
Yeah.
That’s the vibe I get from Lemmygrad too, like they assume the rest of the world is constantly pondering how much they hate China, as a dominating thought.
It’s bizarre, and I am by no means generalizing Chinese people either. Some researchers I’ve interacted with (which is pretty much my only other exposure to China) are not like that at all.
They really don't seem to understand that for most of the world we don't care about China one way or the other. Much in the same way as I don't really think about Argentina. It's out there somewhere, but other than acknowledging its existence I don't really care.
lemmy.ml, blahaj.zone, lemmygrad, hexbear..
And the entire rest of lemmy is full of people crying about AI or cryptocurrency
I don't seem to have this problem as much. That said, I didn't on Reddit either. Maybe it is because my feeds are mostly science, weird maps, and things discovered on lemmy.nsfw.
Tbh I very rarely see anyone mention cryptocurrency. I guess if it's brought up I'll see someone complain about it, but it's almost never brought up in the first place. Especially compared to AI which is talked about as often as politics.
Doesn’t make it less annoying
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I kinda hope they also weight reviews based in hours in the game. If ten people with 1000 hours I'm a fame recommend and 1000 people with <10 hours don't recommend, I really hope the score is better than 50%.
Well maybe they stopped playing the game because they didn't like it? I don't continue to play games I dislike
you're late to the party
What is „my language“? Because depending on where the game is from this changes. Have they thought of that? Because I know from experience that US companies cannot comprehend speaking more than one language.
Its the language set for your client UI I wager.
I mean yeah and that‘s very unfortunate. Users need more control over these things. This is as rushed as Youtube‘s automatic translation slop. Most people speak more than one language. When will Americans learn that?
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