Thursday, June 23rd 2022
Epic Games Store Updated to Include Game Ratings & Polls
We've just updated the Epic Games Store with a new feature we know players have been waiting for—Ratings and Polls. These new features allow players to provide direct feedback to the Epic Games Store community for the games they're playing. Responses will populate the store product pages with information about games and apps, creating a better experience and helping players find games they're more likely to love. After playing a game or using an application, players may find the Epic Games Store launcher requesting feedback at the end of your session.
Game Ratings
Our ratings system will ask random players, who have played a game for more than two hours, to give a rating on a five point scale. Here's how it works: Following a play session, random players will be offered the opportunity to score the game up to five stars. Over time, these scores will help populate the "Overall Rating" that will appear on the product's store page. Because these requests are randomized, we won't spam our players, and we probably won't ask about every game or app used. This approach protects games from review bombing and ensures people assigning scores are actual players of the games.
Game Polls
Separately from ratings, players may also be selected at random at the end of a play session to answer a poll. For polls, players will be asked a question that relates to their most recent session. The questions cover a broad range, and will have a number of potential responses. Players might be asked to respond "Yes" or "No" to "Is this game good to play with a group?". Players could also be presented with a multiple choice poll asking "How challenging are the bosses in this game?".
After enough players have responded to the polls, their answers will help generate tags for the respective product pages. These tags can be used to filter games and apps within the Epic Games Store. As these tags grow over time, they'll be able to inform players on content and improve discoverability—helping our players find more games to enjoy! Over time, the store pages will accumulate a wide range of tags from confirmed players that will inform the community about more aspects of each game's content. Over time, these tags will also populate our Category pages, and will be used to generate custom tag-based categories driven by our players that will appear on the Epic Games Store home page.
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Epic Games
Our ratings system will ask random players, who have played a game for more than two hours, to give a rating on a five point scale. Here's how it works: Following a play session, random players will be offered the opportunity to score the game up to five stars. Over time, these scores will help populate the "Overall Rating" that will appear on the product's store page. Because these requests are randomized, we won't spam our players, and we probably won't ask about every game or app used. This approach protects games from review bombing and ensures people assigning scores are actual players of the games.
Game Polls
Separately from ratings, players may also be selected at random at the end of a play session to answer a poll. For polls, players will be asked a question that relates to their most recent session. The questions cover a broad range, and will have a number of potential responses. Players might be asked to respond "Yes" or "No" to "Is this game good to play with a group?". Players could also be presented with a multiple choice poll asking "How challenging are the bosses in this game?".
After enough players have responded to the polls, their answers will help generate tags for the respective product pages. These tags can be used to filter games and apps within the Epic Games Store. As these tags grow over time, they'll be able to inform players on content and improve discoverability—helping our players find more games to enjoy! Over time, the store pages will accumulate a wide range of tags from confirmed players that will inform the community about more aspects of each game's content. Over time, these tags will also populate our Category pages, and will be used to generate custom tag-based categories driven by our players that will appear on the Epic Games Store home page.
37 Comments on Epic Games Store Updated to Include Game Ratings & Polls
So, this so-called "review bombing" does not even exist instead, it is just a concoction by the industry (to kill free speech) and enforced by shady storefronts (Steam, GoG, etc.) holders to protect these sad dev feelings, not its sales numbers.
Remember what Phil said voicing his tiny little opinion by him trying to chastise gamers because gamers were calling out untalented devs?!
Ironically, though, he had stated this BS **after** he received an award at one of the devs' spots that are in question.
Didn't really bring down the overall ranking by much, though. :D These dumb clowns now even spam the workshop & comments sections with templates of their "Z" & "V" Russian swastika's.
It's absolutely disgusting & really surprising Steam isn't doing anything to stop this provoking spilling of dumb hatred, especially since it's legally banned in Germany.
Lots of people get caught into the habit and sunken cost of playing a game. I had similar with dota2, was kinda playing it almost as a habit instead of enjoying it, and hoping for good matches.
And similar for Stellaris, while I like it, I'm also doubtful I'd recommend it for new players, due to the huge amount of DLC's, and like a lot of Paradox, you do lose out a lot when not having DLCs. And jumping into it now, it's not an "incremental" 30$ every half year (or year, whatever), but a more lump sum.There's multiple metric for me, graphics (style and quality) can be seen from gameplay vids, monetization can be read (bad mtx, cosmetic only mtx, none). I'm not saying that one single steam review is a holy grail, but the quantity of the reviews gives a picture. From dev behaviour, up-to-date reviews, performance, monetization, cheaters, etc.
Proffesional gaming journalists have been taken for plagiarism, for writing article on games they haven't finished, or having spoilers in it. And of course dubious practice....
Like BF2042, got a 7/10 from IGN or 80(100?) from Pcgamer, while it is massively negative on steam and ran like shite and to my understanding (from friends) was shite to play.I could also keep going on this. Cuphead, doom, DMCV, Pokemon "Too much water", Kane & Lynch
I don't know about you guys, but gamers I know go to software frontend stores to get software and that is it.
The issue that Epic is having, is called ESTABLISHED MARKET.
And when things are like that, it's very tough to carve it out, even jaggernauts like Microsoft can fail (mobile market)
They are fighting an uphill battle, some gamers are stupid enough to pour hate on them, but EGS succeess would benefit game creators and hence eventually gamers.
On top of the free games they they keep pumping every couple of weeks.Besides, it works with external launcher, e.g. gog's.
I don't care about Steam's features. I don't even use them but millions and millions of gamers do and that's why they keep requesting the features on EGS and that's the only way that they will have a chance to grow to Steam's size and not have to keep churning out free games to get gamers to come back.
Edit: did you try going to the game folder and clicking on the exe?
Yes in the folder it told me to use the launcher. Someone made a patch so you can launch without the launcher as it annoyed some players having to load epic first.
Here done a screen grab for you, its a in game check as you can see uses a in game message box.
Or, as an alternative, would you mind not making things up?