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Suggestion: Add a "Require Reviewers to Comment" Toggle for negative feedback

A topic by FartFish created Aug 14, 2022 Views: 313 Replies: 5
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If I get a bad review, I'd really like to know why it is I'm getting that review so that I can improve my game, or at the very least make sure I make a better game next time. A negative review with nothing to say just isn't helpful at all. Moreover, if users can leave blank negative reviews, it makes it hard to distinguish an actual negative review from trolling. Adding this feature would make it so that developers can get actual feedback on their game when a user leaves a negative review, and helps to distinguish actual negative reviews from trolling. 

Obviously, there's some issues here -- requiring users to comment would take away the anonymity that allows them to leave a negative review in the first place. A solution to this is to allow users to make a comment private, so that only the developer can see it. 

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Agreed. Ratings without context are pretty worthless. 

In the meantime, you might want to check out Roast My Game. It requires reviewers to be a little more thoughtful and helpful in their responses. Screenshot below.


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But then what stops people who don't want to comment from writing gibberish just to get past that limitation. I think it should be a suggestion instead

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If they just write gibberish and they truly had nothing negative to say about a game that they rated negatively, then it was probably trolling

Then you know that they're trolling, and can ignore their feedback.

Yup. At the moment there's no requirement for feedback, but implementing this change would both benefit devs and their work, and make it easier to identify trolling so you can just ignore the review