Steam User Review System Updated

In a post on mega-digital-marketplace Steam, Valve have detailed new plans to make recent user-reviews more visible. The change has arrived following customer feedback which pointed out that it can be hard to get a grasp on impressions of a current game experience, as opposed to the experience from launch.

Valve explained the changes with the following statement:

"One common theme we've been seeing in customer feedback about the Steam review system is that it isn't always easy to tell what the current experience is like in a game months after release. This new set of changes released today is designed to better describe the current customer experience in those games. We do this by better exposing the newly posted reviews and by calculating a summary of those recent reviews."

In addition to highlighting reviews from the past 30 days, Valve also announced some other more minor changes:

"The customer review section on a game's store page has a new "Summary" tab that focuses on recent helpful reviews and recently posted reviews. You can still find overall most help reviews by selecting "Most Helpful" tab."

"There's a new checkbox when writing a review to more easily disclose if you received the copy of the game for free."

"You can now view all reviews regardless of language by selecting "All Languages" from the language dropdown in the reviews tab of the Community Hub for the game."