Valve is tired of the 'review bombing' on the pages of Steam games and wants to implement a point system in the reviews, to distinguish the shitty reviews and the quality ones.

During the last weeks, there have been problems in the games that appear on the Steam platform, the most important game host on the market. They are not technical problems, the problem is 'review bombing', which is based on indiscriminately attacking a specific game with negative comments. This problem already caused Steam to put some graphs on the reviews of the game every day and it was possible if the game was worth it or not. A pretty clear example is the Dota 2 blitz, with many users asking Valve to release or say something about Half Life 3.

The company is aware of the problem and the bar graphs seemed to be a solution, but it is only a patch, allowing to distinguish negative reviews for a specific circumstance. Well, the company wants to completely remodel the review system, to prevent a game from being filled with negative comments every time there is an incident or whatever.

The first of the changes will be “a method for calculating the usefulness of each review.” Valve also states: “Accounts that have an excessive amount of reviews in a single game will see the weight of each individual score count less and less.” Secondly, the company has added: “Store pages will now display reviews that are by default positive or negative in a similar proportion to the total review of the game.”

“If the game is rated 80% positively, then ten of the reviews shown on the store page by default will be 80% positive, with eight positive and two negative,” Valve says. “This should make it harder to manipulate the reviews shown on the game page for a particular number of players and should represent a more accurate average of the opinion of people who play the game.”