Steam's New System Prioritizes Helpful Reviews Over Memes & ASCII Art

Steam is tackling unhelpful reviews with a new system. Now, informative reviews get priority, pushing memes and jokes down the list. Find out how.
Steam's New System Prioritizes Helpful Reviews Over Memes & ASCII Art
Steam Prioritizes Informative Reviews with New Helpfulness System Steam reviews are notorious for being a mixed bag of helpful information, humor, and utter nonsense. Valve aims to address this by highlighting truly useful reviews. Gone are the days of easily finding review bombs and copypasta on Steam... well, sort of. While these elements aren't gone entirely, Valve's new Helpfulness System will prioritize and rank genuinely helpful reviews, pushing them to the forefront of a game's store page. By Julian van der Merwe, Published 08/14/2024 For years, Steam has grappled with the challenge of unhelpful reviews flooding its platform. From nonsensical copypastas and unoriginal jokes to users weaponizing reviews to protest microtransaction changes, finding reliable feedback has been an obstacle for potential buyers. While the validity of "review bombing" as a protest tactic is debatable, Valve has been actively combating unhelpful reviews for quite some time. One si…

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