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Steam Reviews Are A Weapon, But One Of The Only Ones Players Can Wield

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I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.

where Sony demanded Steam players link PSN accounts to be able to continue to play the game, one force was used to make a reversal of this decision happen: Negative Steam reviews.

While I’m not saying this is necessarily a good thing, something like Steam reviews are one of the only mechanisms average players have in order to express discontent over the direction or actions of a game. Most people are not me, where I can write an article about my opinion on some controversy and get anywhere from 5,000 to 500,000 people reading it. The same goes for streamers and YouTubers with that kind of reach.The other options are either futile or morally wrong.

Generally speaking I think Steam reviews are still more helpful than not. But if scores drop in an otherwise good game, there’s usually a reason for that, and often, that gets the clear attention of the developer and publisher. That’s exactly what happened here. Even if the scoresused with malintent, it’s still not the same as going around cursing out developers directly on Twitter.

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