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Steam does that well, but its recommended/not recommended system is a dark pattern IMO. People tend to choose recommended even for games they don't like on the
by rjh29 3y ago
Steam does that well, but its recommended/not recommended system is a dark pattern IMO. People tend to choose recommended even for games they don't like on the basis that someone else might like it, or it might improve in the future. Virtually every popular game has 'Overwhelmingly Positive' or similar. To get useful data you need to read the not recommended reviews in detail.
A more honest system would be 'Bad', 'Average' and 'Fantastic' - then I bet you'd get a ton more 'average' reviews.
- taeric 3y agoMostly agree, but I wouldn't call it a dark pattern. The problem is you are asking for two things. Do you want popular recommendations? Or do you want critical reviews? Those are very different and very hard to house together. This is why I mostly view the problem as being with user provided ratings. They basically fall into the same realm as all big data. Tons of noise, little signal, and easy to misinterpret.