That’s exactly the kind of review you want on a game’s Steam page, but the new filters default to ignoring them. Sources like Kickstarter and HumbleBundle can make up significant portions of a game’s marketplace, and those buying through those sources are likely to have strong opinions on the games they backed. It’s not particularly far-fetched to think that there are game developers out there handing out Steam keys to their games in exchange for positive reviews, whereas a purchase directly from Steam doesn’t carry that kind of suspicion.īut the problem with Steam’s plan to tackle all of this is that the way gamers buy games is changing. Some in the games industry have brought this kind of skepticism on themselves by engaging in practices such as requiring positive game reviews from YouTubers to get access to the game, or having employees within a developer astroturf game reviews themselves. Particularly in talking about reviews of games bought straight from a developer. Now, Valve’s claim that there is a problem with reviews that come from these other sources isn’t completely wrong. That’s a noble goal, but the change also means discounting reviews from players who backed Kickstarters or bought the game direct from devs – groups likely to have genuine strong opinions – not to mention from other stores like Humble and Itch.
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Valve say this is to prevent score inflation from devs throwing out free keys in exchange for reviews.
Valve have again shaken up how the Steam store presents player reviews, this time adding new filtering options which, by default, don’t include reviews from people who got the game by activating a Steam key rather than buying direct from Steam.
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This whole thing has to do with how Steam is prioritizing game reviews that come from reviewers who bought the game directly from Steam, as opposed to applying download keys acquired elsewhere. And, even if we take Steam’s claims to its reasoning for the change, the concern by game developers is entirely understandable and warranted.
One recent attempt to, according to Valve, make Steam game reviews more useful to the gaming community has developers concerned, however. There’s a balancing act Steam must do, as it must ingratiate itself to both buyers of games and those who develop the games. The fact that some insane percentage of online game purchases go through Steam is great news for Valve, of course, but it comes with challenges as well. That, of course, is Steam, Valve’s platform for a digital games marketplace. When it comes to the digital distribtion of video games, there are many animals in the ecosystem but only one real eight-hundred-pound gorilla. Wed, Sep 14th 2016 10:44pm - Timothy Geigner
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