Steam seperates reviews based on languages now, unless you specify otherwise, because the localisation or lack there of can change the experience of a game in various countries.
For example, there have been some games recently with poor chinese localisation, e.g. silksong, that would drag down the score shown to other users as well despite it being an issue that would not affect them at all.
pobry on
I guess it is to avoid review-bombing games in certain zones or countries. Like Warframe, when the character Wukong was reworked, suddenly received plenty of bad reviews from China.
MrTzatzik on
When a game fucks up translation (it happens quite often), the game gets negative reviews (like chinese in Silksong). But if you don’t speak that language, you don’t care. Or when chinese players don’t culturally approve something, the game gets tons of negative reviews (like Hearts of Iron 4 where you could form Silk Road Empire as India).
For majority of players these things are not a problem so there is no reason to see bad/good reviews in language that you probably don’t understand anyway.
Cetais on
This is the kind of stuff I probably wouldn’t ever knew, since on my account I added secondary languages.
Interesting how it changes if steam thinks you’re bilingual/multilingual
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Steam seperates reviews based on languages now, unless you specify otherwise, because the localisation or lack there of can change the experience of a game in various countries.
For example, there have been some games recently with poor chinese localisation, e.g. silksong, that would drag down the score shown to other users as well despite it being an issue that would not affect them at all.
I guess it is to avoid review-bombing games in certain zones or countries. Like Warframe, when the character Wukong was reworked, suddenly received plenty of bad reviews from China.
When a game fucks up translation (it happens quite often), the game gets negative reviews (like chinese in Silksong). But if you don’t speak that language, you don’t care. Or when chinese players don’t culturally approve something, the game gets tons of negative reviews (like Hearts of Iron 4 where you could form Silk Road Empire as India).
For majority of players these things are not a problem so there is no reason to see bad/good reviews in language that you probably don’t understand anyway.
This is the kind of stuff I probably wouldn’t ever knew, since on my account I added secondary languages.
Interesting how it changes if steam thinks you’re bilingual/multilingual