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Steam has long since proven itself it be a useless metric to get any valuable statistics from.
It's reviews have always been filled with memes, but especially now that reviews can be monetized.
Even poorly done negative reviews rake it a lot of Steam Points.
How can reviews be monetized also the overall score is what really matters and is far more trustworthy than any games reviewer. Oh you mean points, I still fail to see how that matters when a game has 10k+ reviews and some tiny portion of them are memes. There is literally nothing better in terms of reviews.
Steam reviews are generally 90% memes or circle jerking.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint had mostly negative. The reviews all complain about either no achievements or the fact that the game was locked to their Ubisoft launcher first. Not real criticism of the game, especially considering most of what people complained about on release was fixed by the time it got put onto Steam.
It's now 7 months later and it's finally gone up to mixed with mostly positive reviews recently, despite no changes to the game.
Compare Breakpoint to Wildlands, it's not as good previous game, all of the recent reviews are still circle jerking but posting positively.
As soon as Steam embraced the memes and shit reviews by adding a Funny button its reviews went to shit.
You do realize you are cherry picking right? The power of steam reviews it that it's just users posting what they want and there is a score aggregate with cool tools that tell you if a game is being review bombed. There are plenty of very good reviews on steam and I use them all the time when going through my many thousands of wish listed indie games. Please don't tell you me you think reviews done by "game journalists" getting early review copies and going to review events is better.... on the whole. At least with steam reviews I know it's people like me rating a game.