PC Gaming Weekly: One way Steam could disarm review-bombers

Some studios on Steam have no problem getting noticed. In fact, they might be getting too much attention in the form of review bombs from people who might not have even played the game they’re trashing. And Valve, the video game company that owns PC gaming’s biggest platform, didn’t help matters with its recent move to keep review-bombing from affecting a developer’s games.

Tuesday, Valve announced a solution to tackle review-bombing (the practice of hordes of people leaving bad comments and reviews in anger), and it’s not a practical one. A new graph will give customers info on the history of user reviews along with alerts about abnormal spikes in negative reviews. But will it tell you why it has negative reviews? Nope. Unless you have context, such as knowing that PewDiePie fans are attacking Firewatch because they are upset with indie studio Campo Santo’s takedown request of his videos of the game, you don’t know why these negative reviews are coming in.