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Q: How does 'ratings & reviews' work? Not being notified & can't respond!

A topic by infinite dreams created Aug 05, 2019 Views: 1,825 Replies: 2
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I can't find any info on this anywhere for some reason but how does the 'ratings & reviews' thing work exactly?

I discovered someone had left a review for my game but only found it purely by accident 11 days after the event. Do I not get notified as a developer or was there some setting I had wrong?

It appears that ratings are only showing on the analytics for an individual game or from the interact tab. I see nothing on the game page itself, is that correct? I imagined ratings/reviews would appear on the game page for all to see a bit like the community posts (or even as part of the community posts) - again have I got some setting wrong somewhere?

And finally.. I'd like to thank the person for taking the time to leave feedback and interact with such people so as to resolve misunderstandings and build better customer relations - I mean that was the intention of it all in the first place right? So how do I do that exactly? There are no PMs or any way to leave comments or anything that I can see?

I feel this is a good and important addition to itch but I (maybe others too) are having trouble figuring how to actually use it to best effect,

thanks anyone who can shed light on it!

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You're right, all this functionality is somewhat unfinished. Creators aren't notified of new ratings, and there's no way to answer reviews or send a PM. As for showing them on game pages, the problem has been one of layout. Sadly, the dev team has their hands full with other things, and figuring out how best to make these additions work hasn't been easy either. Suggestions are welcome.

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appreciate the response!

I think this is a really important addition to itch that will ultimately help folks decide what to download & support as well as bringing in revenue. If developers can interact and engage with the customer base it builds trust as well as helping us out with all important feedback we need to improve our games.

Can I make the suggestion then, that even if it's temporary, the ratings & review is hooked into the discussion board (or comments) that apply to a page.

This would at least allow us to interact with folk and should be minimal work for the dev team - I'm thinking force generate a comment/post and let the existing system do what it's good at. The star rating could be temporarily hooked into the avatar, title or comment by means of inserting an image with the appropriate number of stars. 

That way, developers get informed of ratings, can respond to ratings and everyone can at least get some feedback :)

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