Valve is now hiding meme-y and ASCII art reviews on Steam store pages

/ Valve’s new ‘helpfulness system’ helps users prioritize reviews Steam deems most informative.

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Valve has started publicly testing sorting reviews in the Steam store based on how well they help players make purchase decisions about games.

Historically we’ve sorted reviews by the number of ‘helpful’ votes given to each review by other players. However, we’ve seen that many players use reviews for sharing jokes, memes, ascii

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