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User game reviews are pretty worthless due to the trend of angry users spamming bad reviews to punish the developer whenever they're upset about some small thin

• stonith 13y ago
  It shows how many hours the user has played, which is a very effective mechanism for filtering reviews. It was suggested on HN that this could be used for the mobile app stores as well and my own experience is that reading a review and rating from someone who has provably put a lot of time into a game is invaluable.
  • kevingadd 13y ago
    Yeah. In my opinion, Valve should be using statistics like time played and number of achievements to try and measure player engagement so they can at least get a rough idea of how popular a given game is (along with things like how long an average playthrough is, whether it has replay value...)