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General discussionGOG, please introduce a *verified owner* feature for reviews(58 posts)(58 posts)
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Posted July 18, 2015
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I'm sick and tired of reading reviews from nostalgic users with rose-tinted glasses who haven't even purchased the game they're reviewing on GOG.com. Those reviews are misleading, not only because of nostalgia inaccuracy, but even more importantly because those people won't report on the game's current technical issues (see: current issues with Shadow of the Horned Rat). You also sometimes get the reverse issue, the game's actually decent but since those people heard it sucked back then, they give it a bad review without bothering to revisit it.

Please limit reviews to actual purchasers like Steam does, or at least let us filter them down to verified owners.

Edit: By default, I would like to see average scores in the store based on verified owners. Then maybe it would be more useful than 83% of games (verified, 20 out of 24 pages of games in the store) being rated four stars.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by WereSquirrel
Posted July 18, 2015
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WereSquirrel: or at least let us filter them down to verified owners.
That's what I would suggest.

Unfortunately, GOG won't hear you if you don't use the community wishlist or contact them directly. :)
Posted July 18, 2015
Agree on the 'owners can review', although sadly for a site based on classic gaming, I still feel a large percentage of owners will be people who are just buying it because of nostalgia, and are likely to not even play it before reviewing.
Posted July 18, 2015
I'm sick and tired of the 'rose tinted glasses' analogy. :P We seriously need something better than that.

Janis Joplin wore those and if anyone is going to talk shit about her I'm afraid I may have to kill you. :D
Posted July 18, 2015
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GOG is not the only place to get games. Limiting reviews to only people who own a game on GOG is not a good idea. If I got a game through Humble Bundle, think it's terrible, I can no longer warn others here about it? Not a good idea. And even if someone owns the game on GOG, that does not mean the nostalgia factor no longer applies to them. No matter how you limit reviews, you still have to read them and decide for yourself if you think it reliable and helpfull to you, and that might vary between different users, you seek different information, or sympathise with particular tastes.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Breja
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: GOG is not the only place to get games. Limiting reviews to only people who own a game on GOG is not a good idea. If I got a game through Humble Bundle, think it's terrible, I can no longer warn others here about it? Not a good idea. And even if someone owns the game on GOG, that does not mean the nostalgia factor no longer applies to them. No matter how you limit reviews, you still have to read them and decide for yourself if you think it reliable and helpfull to you, and that might vary between different users, you seek different information, or sympathise with particular tastes.
No no you must send to topicstarter your passport's scan, recepies from local shops, photos, credit history so he can decide if you even worthy open your mouth. End if your opinion of game don't met his opinion then you must be silenced. Because "he also sometimes get the reverse issue, the game's actually decent but since those people heard it sucked back then, they give it a bad review without bothering to revisit it"

We just been visitet by another little Napoleon there. Do not argue, it will hurt his feelings!
Post edited July 18, 2015 by zquarter
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: GOG is not the only place to get games. Limiting reviews to only people who own a game on GOG is not a good idea. If I got a game through Humble Bundle, think it's terrible, I can no longer warn others here about it?
Did someone suddenly tie your hands and gag you or something when they didn't allow you to type out a review? You can not leave a review on Humble Bundle? Or warn people in it's subforum if you feel so inclined?

Particularly that last one, where people can actually bring up counterpoints, rather than it just being your opinion, flawed as it may or may not be?
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Pheace
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: GOG is not the only place to get games. Limiting reviews to only people who own a game on GOG is not a good idea. If I got a game through Humble Bundle, think it's terrible, I can no longer warn others here about it?
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Pheace: Did someone suddenly tie your hands and gag you or something when they didn't allow you to type out a review?
Well, if that happened then... yes, kind of.
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Pheace: You can not leave a review on Humble Bundle?
Actually, I don't think I can. I don't see any user review there. And that's not the point, the point is if I played the game I should be able to review it. Some games come to GOG late. Why should people who already played it not be allowed to review it for the undecided GOG users? We may know the game to be bad, and yet have to sit back and what? Enjoy GOGers buy it blind?
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Pheace: Or warn people in it's subforum if you feel so inclined?
Because people about to buy a game look at the reviews on the game's page, more often than the subforums?
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Breja
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: Because people about to buy a game look at the reviews on the game's page, more often than the subforums?
That's GOG's flaw, for not linking the subforums on the store page to begin with. That's something that should be fixed on their end, not be used as a reason to allow anyone to review.
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: Because people about to buy a game look at the reviews on the game's page, more often than the subforums?
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Pheace: That's GOG's flaw, for not linking the subforums on the store page to begin with. That's something that should be fixed on their end, not be used as a reason to allow anyone to review.
So if subforums will be linked to store page... how will anyone writing a review there be different from anyone just writing a review as it is now?

What is it you actually want? Wherever the reviews are, whoevere wrote them you still need to read them for yourself to see how reliable they are and what infromation they provide. If someone is just praising the game for nostalgic reasons... don't be influenced by their review. And the fact someone owns the game here does not mean their opinion is not colored by nostalgia.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Breja
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: So if subforums will be linked to store page... how will anyone writing a review there be different from anyone just writing a review as it is now?
I already said it. A review in the forums can be argued, points pro/con etc. Not to mention weight can be given to his review based on whether he owns it or not.

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Breja: If someone is just praising the game for nostalgic reasons... don't be influenced by their review. And the fact someone owns the game here does not mean their opinion is not colored by nostalgia.
Those are good arguments, but just because it doesn't 100% guarantee to get rid of those things, does not mean the system couldn't be better with reviews by actual owners on the relevant platform.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by Pheace
Posted July 18, 2015
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Breja: If someone is just praising the game for nostalgic reasons... don't be influenced by their review. And the fact someone owns the game here does not mean their opinion is not colored by nostalgia.
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Pheace: Those are good arguments, but just because it doesn't 100% guarantee to get rid of those things, does not mean the system couldn't be better with reviews by actual owners on the relevant platform.
I think it would be quite cool if gog just introduced a filter, so that people could choose to see only reviews by people that own the game here. Then everyone would have a choice about it.
Posted July 18, 2015
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Pheace: Those are good arguments, but just because it doesn't 100% guarantee to get rid of those things, does not mean the system couldn't be better with reviews by actual owners on the relevant platform.
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moonshineshadow: I think it would be quite cool if gog just introduced a filter, so that people could choose to see only reviews by people that own the game here. Then everyone would have a choice about it.
Indeed, that's a good solution.
Posted July 18, 2015
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tinyE: I'm sick and tired of the 'rose tinted glasses' analogy. :P We seriously need something better than that.

Janis Joplin wore those and if anyone is going to talk shit about her I'm afraid I may have to kill you. :D
Ah, like Deus Ex fans! :P

(Btw Joplin Sucks, man! Big Brother and the Holding Company were so much better for fucks sake! ;) )
Posted July 18, 2015
Maybe add a tag next user.
Post edited July 18, 2015 by BlueSteel006
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