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Yeah if things are fine and I bought the game I don't leave a review. Only if it's exceptionally good, or I feel I need to warn others do I take the time to review.
Basically if I bought a game and put more then 5 hours into it and didn't have anything to say, that is my positive appreciation signal
I've got 2000 hours in Factorio and haven't left a review on steam.....
Honestly I'm not really a fan of how steam does it's reviews with the requirement of text.
If it would just let me give a blank thumbs up that doesn't show up, I'd be more willing to leave a thumbs up. Just that little bit of resistance after a day's worth of work is enough to discourage me to do anything unless it's something absolutely amazing.
Having a middle option of ratings in common categories would be nice too, like what I've seen many reviews do in text.
I agree with you, I typically only leave a review when something is terrible as a warning.
I’ve never left a review for stardew valley and I have around 500hrs or so.
didn’t have anything to say, that is my positive appreciation signal
Not saying anything is not a signal for anything. For indie games, I tend to leave at least a positive one-liner (unless it's trash, of course, then it might be a negative one-liner).
Well maybe they should start leaving as many positive ones a negative then? Idk, theres solutions to this without getting rid of the feature and without getting rid of Japanese support.
Just change the entire culture, that's easy enough.
This is kind of obvious. If you don’t like the games then why care about making more of them in the future?
This is the first I’ve heard of this reviewing trend.
if you look at japanese restaurants in google maps, most of them are rated at 3 stars. japanese never give 5 stars at most its 4, and they will give lower for even the slightest inconveniences. if you see 4 stars above then that means there's a lot of tourists frequent there.
source, i've been there twice and was dumbfounded
Japanese people understand that average means 2-3 stars lol
Rating things 4-5 stars, or 7-8/10 on average makes way less sense to me
This is the same culture that will absolutely not speak out or ask for a change in ingredients for fear of dishonouring the chef and the staff.
Maybe face to face but of what I heard about the culture, talking behind the back is very rampant.
"Dishonoring" the chef makes it sound like there are still samurai running around. I don't think substitutions at restaurants rise to that level.
This suspiciously sounds like the youtuber "JapanEats".
It's almost like a quote.
When's the last time you checked ratings on maps? I just looked at Sakata, a small city in Tohoku with no shinkansen line, and plenty of the ratings were above 4 stars. Seemed to be the same all over the place.
I don't think japanese people are unique for leaving dumb reviews. Pretty sure you can find people in all countries saying shit like "store was closed when I went, 1 star".
its pretty impossible to say a statement that blanket a whole country, but there is enough evidence to form the opinion
Maybe people near Tokyo are shittier about reviews? I dunno what to tell you. Guess I haven't spent much time outside Tohoku.
First random city I scrolled to north of Tokyo (in Fukushima):
Very weird, I had no idea about this! I guess I'll keep it in mind if I ever find myself in Japan!
Given that major publishers focus so much on review averages, it's probably a valid concern.
New Japanese releases have also got negative reviews on Amazon since the beginning of time, this is a nothingburger article.
Came here to post exactly this. This is just Active Gaming Media Inc. wary their localization business will go kaput.
Why would any non-japanese gamers fear this? As for the Japanese ones, sounds like it's on them to stop being bad eggs?
Or it's possibly a part of their culture to warn others to avoid bad investments? I'm not Japanese though so what do I know.
I'd say it's not on the Japanese to change their ways, but on the developers to not put out products that merit that kind of feedback.
Or it's possibly a part of their culture to warn others to avoid bad investments
We all of us do that, it's not just them.
the developers to not put out products that merit that kind of feedback
You're seriously suggesting that games should be released in a condition that they'll never, ever, receive a negative review? Have you SEEN steam reviews and the sort of nonsense reasons that sometimes get left?
The problem is not that they're leaving negative reviews, it's that they're not leaving any positive ones to counter that. In that case, why would any game developer wish to court the tiny Japanese market if they're going to tank the game's review scores?
