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This is a problem with any site that relies on user reviews by Arbit 02/19/2013, 11:50am PST
fabio wrote:

skip wrote:

You also can't sort reviews by rating so finding people who disliked a game for whatever reason becomes harder.


You just sort by most helpful then start from the last page. They always vote down the negative reviews.

The concept depends on the reviewers being objective, which instantly results in failure. Doubly so for GOG, because the only people that still care or think about these games are going to be enthusiasts in love with the concept of old games and/or people looking to post hoc justify spending their entire adolescence indoors.

Sorting by stars would be best, because you filter out the 95% of the people that give 5 stars for a product merely functioning, and the people that give 1 star because they tried to shove the product up their ass and are pissed because they had to have a doctor extract shards of plastic from their colon. The 2-4 star reviews are generally where the good info is.
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The most overrated PC game of all time just hit GOG! by Mischief Maker 02/14/2013, 6:56am PST NEW
    Jesus, there's nearly 100 reviews and I'm the only non-5-star. NT by Mischief Maker 02/14/2013, 7:12am PST NEW
        The forum! by fabio 02/18/2013, 12:49am PST NEW
    Oh cool, it's been a while since I've played this. Thanks for the heads up. by Arbit 02/14/2013, 11:36am PST NEW
    Conquest: Frontier Wars? I thought it was underrated. by WITTGENSTEIN 02/14/2013, 7:58pm PST NEW
    Something Awful: not just terrible movie opinions by fabio 02/17/2013, 5:42pm PST NEW
    Good job by GOG. I don't care for the game, but it's a coup for the site. by skip 02/18/2013, 8:23am PST NEW
        Re: Good job by GOG. I don't care for the game, but it's a coup for the site. by fabio 02/18/2013, 9:33am PST NEW
            THERE'S my review! 7 from the bottom. NT by Mischief Maker 02/18/2013, 9:59am PST NEW
            This is a problem with any site that relies on user reviews by Arbit 02/19/2013, 11:50am PST NEW
                Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter by jeep 02/19/2013, 9:32pm PST NEW
        Well, they finally did it by skip 11/02/2014, 7:52am PST NEW
            Maybe they felt threatened by Steam muscling in on the same abandonware games by fabio 11/02/2014, 3:47pm PST NEW
 
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