The game rating system is not used with responsibly and several games are rated with one star for the most absurd reasons, from the russian war to the use of the Unity platform, among many others. The GOG system, as absurd as it sounds, still puts one and two star ratings in the spotlight. All of this means less in-game sales and less profit for GOG. In fact, I don't think any game deserves one star, and very few would deserve two, but this system is used immaturely. I suggest implementing a simple like disliked system like the one seen on Steam.

It's true that some people can't rate things properly, but I dislike Steam's binary system.
A "recommended" weights an "ok" game as much as a masterpiece (and viceversa for the negatives).
Instead, I'd like more stars than 5 here.. or an option to choose your preferred system at least.

if you implement a ten star or more system people will keep giving one star.

And the like/dislike system on the water-vapour themed store isn't used immaturely? Wasn't it so abused that they had to implement anti-review-bombing filters?

Steam's "thumb up" for games I like and recommend, and "thumb down" for games I dislike and don't recommend, are too limited.
At the very least a "thumb sideways" would be needed for games that fall in the gap inbetween.

But even then: as it is now, I've seen lots of Steam user reviews, that gave a game a "thumb up", but then thrashed said game in the text of their review.
The same goes for "thumb down". At first sight, someone gives a negative review...but if you bother to read, the review is (almost) only positive.
As long as people aren't conistent in what they want to express, this won't change.

I agree with you in that "the engine used", or "this is made by someone from this nationality", or "one of the devs posted something I don't like on Twitter, five years ago" shouldn't be factors in a review.

But that flaw is (at least partially) on GOG, because they don't remove these "reviews". I never understood that argument. Five is the perfect number.
Can be used to express "total dislike" (1),
"wouldn't recommend, but has some interesting/nice stuff for people generally interested in this genre" (2),
"an overall 'meh' game" (3),
"not the hottest shit,. but definitely worth the money (for genre lovers)" (4)
and "absolute 'must-buy' (for genre lovers)" (5)
(or whatever levels you may come up with for yourself).

Three would already suffice.
"overall bad (1),
"some good parts, some bad parts" (2), and
"overall good" (3). Yeah, "at least"...why not let everyone have a toolbox to rebuild the whole webpage according to their liking?

Sometimes I really have to wonder if people actually read what they write, before they click on "post my message".

Edit: typos

Yeah.
Not to forget the 100% system.
Where people get in fights over whether a game deserves 78% or 79%.

I think what most people overlook when it comes to ratings in reviews:
the text of a review is much more important than any graphical indicator.

In theory, we should abandon any "thumbs", "# of stars", "percentages", "# of hearts" , etc., and simply concentrate on what is written in a review.

Because that's where the true information value lies (if the reviewer in question bothers to share some actual information).

It's perfect for limited entries. Also, people badly translate it other scales (e.g: 3/5 = 6/10 = sufficient. Not average\mediocre, which is 5\10)
The more elements there are, the more precision is required (and that's why Gog uses a result with decimals, aka a scale of 100).
I noticed this issue with my own db.. at first I used a scale of 10, then a scale of 20 and it wasn't still enough.
Btw I use scores for ranking, so more detail is better, even if obviously it will never be perfect. Woa calm down, one can't even wish for ideal systems now? Yeah, let's browse hundreds of random reviews for every title, without any data aggregation..
Reviews are important if you want to verify the rating or check more details, but the values are quite convenient overall.

Sure, as long as one recognizes how unrealistically such a wish is.

However - you were asking for "a system" where the users can choose their preferred system (aka: "a" system, that includes any number of different other systems, intended to be custom tailored to each and every customer).
And you even went so far as to call it "the least" GOG could do.

I mean, come on now...there is naivety in thinking, and then there is an entitlement mentality. Yeah, heaven forbid that we have to put in some engagement, to learn about a game, we are interested in. Oh, so it is convenience you're looking for?
Not actual information about the game you're interested in.

Well, then...to each their own.

You're overreacting to a simple comment made for fun..

Also, it probably wouldn't be difficult to allow 2,5,10,100 scales to users (obviously not infinite systems..), based on preferences. It's more a matter that companies would not care about implementing it.
But I don't know if translating all of them to 100 would cause too many issues to the values. It would be interesting to test.

Anyway, for some reason you seem quite negative and aggressive about this discussion, so it's better to stop it.. I never said to remove reviews... -_-'

Oh, sorry - I must have missed the smiley in your post.

And I never said that you said you want reviews to be removed.

All systems are used imaturelly. The reason of my post is decrease impact on how a game is seem before buy and I think steam system causes less negative impact.