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Baltverge Games5 years ago (3 edits) (+1)

I am positive that i saw change in rating when user changed his 5 star rating to 1 star, but ok.
Maybe it was because 5 star rating was removed and it has nothing to do with 1 star rating.

So you don't think that simple like/recommend button would be better (easier for users)?

EDIT:  Actually 1 star ratings are counted.
On second asset i have 4 ratings
3 = 5 star ratings
1 = 1 star rating (from the same user i mentioned above)
and on page i see 4.0 rating.

What exactly you mean with this "one solitary" 1-star rating?

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No Time To Play5 years ago

Sure, you can see the rating while looking at your own game, but just one rating isn't going to impact your game's rank. I don't see what's unclear. In listings, games are ranked by many criteria, and ratings are only counted if a game has several of them. In other words, if many people would have rated your game 1-star, that would matter. If just one did, their rating isn't counted. And if their rating isn't counted, your game's rank isn't hurt by it. Does that make sense now?

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Baltverge Games5 years ago

"just one rating isn't going to impact your game's rank"
Not "just one". It already happened multiple times.
I only provided last case as example. One user can rate all your projects (like it was in my case). I see you are also developer and you have multiple projects. It will be ok, if user will give all your projects 1 star rating (plus will insult you in review) only because he didn't liked your answer?  I guess no and he will get ban immediately :D

"I don't see what's unclear."
I clearly explained problem and i think "Like" based rating system would work better then 5 star rating system. Less possibility to abuse.
Current 5 star rating system can be abused by users and developers, but "Like" system only by developers.

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No Time To Play5 years ago (2 edits)

If one player gave each of my games a one-star rating, two things would happen:

  1. Each and every rating would be ignored by the ranking algorithm, since there's just one rating per game.
  2. That player would get caught doing it and lose their rating privileges. Not because it's me, but because we frown on such practices.

So no, I'm not worried about it in the least. But thanks for the suggestion.

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No Time To Play5 years ago

First of all, I can't "look into an account". If you suspect fraudulent activity, please contact support.

Second, this entire topic, and the post you replied to in particular (after more than two months), is about the fact that those ratings you received most likely won't affect your game's ranking. Please be considerate. Thank you.

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dino999z5 years ago (1 edit)

Sorry about that. I wasn't sure who to contact, and this post showed up in my google search. I'll contact the support in the future.

Please understand, anyone would get upset over all their games getting a 1-star review for no reason. While I understand a 1-star review wouldn't hurt the ranking, I replied to this post because you mentioned someone who abuses such system would have their rating privilege taken away, and I want someone like that to be caught and stop ruining other game devs' day.

But again, I understand this was not the right place to post about it and I didn't realize this post was two months old. Sorry for my inconsideration.

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No Time To Play5 years ago(+1)

You're right. I don't like receiving 1-star ratings either. Elsewhere I got one from someone who clearly had serious problems with reading comprehension. But what would you like to do, make rating systems that don't allow low ratings? What would be the point then?

Otherwise, no problem. Happens to everyone.

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