Valve targeting ‘off-topic review bombs’ in Steam user reviews

Valve says it’s refining its approach to how customer reviews are handled on Steam, announcing today that it plans to identify and remove “off-topic review bombs” that might affect user review scores.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

If technical issues are deemed to be off topic, as I have heard they will be, then you might as well get rid of Steam user reviews. It would seem that how well a game is optimised is pretty damn important.

I would also suggest that reviews which discuss micro-transactions and anti-cheat software, should be left up for people to read. I have a real bad feeling about the way things are going down.

Steam is now going to try to stop the bleeding by going after user friendly features that developers do not like. Of course, Steam would rather throw a wrench into popular features, rather than bow to lowering their profit take.

Personally, I wouldn't bow to pressure from Epic. Yes, they may have to take a smaller cut (20% - 25%), but Epic is just acting as a market disruptor. Epic will not be able to grow their marketplace on a 12% profit over the long-term. Lets also not forget that Epic is a publically traded company, and to investors, a 12% profit margin is absolut nonsense. Steam should stay strong, particularly since there is no platform that can touch the features that they offer.

Epic will either raise the cut they take from developers at some point, or they will go out with a wimper sooner or later.

[Hungryalpaca]

You’ll still be able to see the reviews steam deems fake. You can manually enable the option to see them.

[Cobra951]

You've made 2 posts in one. The more important one is about Steam's self-serving censorship, so I gave you an upvote. However, I disagree with your second post, about Epic. It remains to be seen whether they will succeed, but I don't have a horse in this race. I'm all for the competition.