{"id":60548,"date":"2013-11-26T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=60548"},"modified":"2013-11-26T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T10:00:16","slug":"steam-adds-user-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/60548-steam-adds-user-reviews","title":{"rendered":"Steam adds user reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has launched in beta a &#8220;User Reviews&#8221; section for the Steam Store. This is essentially a revamp of the &#8220;recommendations&#8221; system.<\/p>\n<p>Users can rate any game they have played, provide a write-up about the game, and rate other&#8217;s reviews for helpfulness, also following trusted authors.<\/p>\n<p>While an aggregated overall score for a game isn&#8217;t available yet, Valve has said they are considering it during the beta phase, explaining that because a game changes over time through updates and new content, so does the accuracy of reviews change as well.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the latest reviews of a game will be shown to users first, to reflect an opinion on the most current sate of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Developers will be able to reply to reviews, and given a special &#8220;developer&#8221; flag on their comment. Abusive and offensive reviews can be flagged, and will then be collapsed until a Valve moderator gets around to deleting the review or removing the spam flag.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;ve ever written a recommendation for a game, these will now be upgraded to reviews. Users can set whether their review are visible to friends only, or to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Check out your reviews here: http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/my\/reviews\/<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60523-lego-the-hobbit-announced.html\">LEGO The Hobbit announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60516-blizzard-on-damage-control-over-female-character-design.html\">Blizzard on damage control over female character design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60519-cod-ghosts-servers-explained-by-infinity-ward.html\">CoD Ghosts servers explained by Infinity Ward<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/60507-bald-loud-ballmer-to-microsoft-its-not-you-its-me.html\">Bald, loud Ballmer to Microsoft: It\u2019s not you, it\u2019s me<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the world know just what you think about your Steam games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":56218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,85,697],"class_list":["post-60548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}