Player stats, sales, and reception speculation thread

[IntelligentDisk]

"Better" here depends on your goals. If you want to track overall impression among players, data from more sources is better. But if you look at it as a commercial goal (reach "mostly positive" on recent reviews to improve further sales), looking at numbers shown by Steam could make sense.

I think most of the debate I've been involved in has been if user reviews have gotten better, so it makes sense to include all and not omit any if we're talking about the sentiment.

 

[bitula]

They're referring to SteamDB. SteamDB counts all reviews on Steam (from Steam purchasers and non-Steam purchasers). The graph, the recent reviews and overall figure on Steam only shows reviews from Steam purchasers and omits reviews from non-Steam purchasers, so it's better to use SteamDB. SteamDB shows 47.42% overall (up from 47.13% or whatever it was). The recent review figure from SteamDB is currently peaking at 58.7%.

Ahaa, good to know, thanks!