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[ZoukGalaxy]

More precisely, they BRING BACK the rating they stupidly REMOVED with the new PS Store, how really stupid you were Sony with this dumb idea !
Remove it then pretend you had a genius idea to add it, like Google constantly removing features "for your own good and security".

 

[Kerotan]

They used to have this on ps3 and 4 I think m it even told you the exact number of ratings.

 

[Knightime_X]

Needs to allow comments like Xbox.
You'll always have nonsense as well as very informative info.

 

[zeldaring]

Good, user feedback is always welcome. Even if it leads to some games being review bombed.

Naughty dog better stop that woke shit lol.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

I'm in work. Will someone check the scores for Knack and Knack II. I hope the console died on whoever gave less than 5 stars.

Dave Meltzer gave Knack II 7 stars when he played it in the Tokyo Dome.

Both Knacks were amazing, I don't know what the fuck happened with Metacritic.

 

[xrnzaaas]

It was already there a few years ago, then removed now reintroduced?

Sony made a barebones store when they had that big update a few years back and they've been slowly bringing back old features like wishlists. I have to say I'm surprised about bringing back the rating system. I would imagine they would keep it hidden to potentially avoid weaker sales of controversial/buggy titles.

 

[Monokrom]

The rating feature just rolled out here in Sweden, so I tried it out. It's a bit weird. Some titles you can rate and others not.
I cannot rate Diablo IV (digital) or Final Fantasy XVI (disc) but I can rate the trial version of Cyberpunk 2077 for example.
Some games work, others not. Anyone else with the same problem?

 

[Roman Empire]

Oh no, people will learn that I review weeb games high!

Jim Ryan can't keep getting away with this!

 

[Draugoth]

Via Eurogamer

Sony has today introduced Star Ratings on the PS Store, meaning players can get an idea of how any given game has been received by fellow players before making a purchase.

As you can see in the screenshots below, the likes of Robocop: Rogue City has a 4.53 star rating on the PlayStation Store. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, meanwhile, only has 2.59.

This new rating system is not limited to the games released this year, with the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves' remaster sitting (quite rightly in my opinion) with 4.59 stars.

Image credit: Sony/Eurogamer

The stars themselves are generated by PlayStation users, who can only rate a game if they actually own it in some capacity. As you can see in the image below, when I went onto my version of the Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection, I was met with the message "you haven't rated this game yet".

 

[KingXtreme81]

Been there for at least a few weeks. I’ve seen it, used it and am glad it’s there.

 

[David B]

Yup I noticed also. Which is great. Because Xbox has already had rating every game with stars since like 10 years ago. So finally Sony doing it with PS5 now on the store. It's great. I gave a 5 star for Resident Evil 4 new one.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Time to go back and rate some games.

 

[graywolf323]

Been there for at least a few weeks. I’ve seen it, used it and am glad it’s there.

pretty sure we had a thread about it back when it started

 

[Tommi84]

Is it just me whole news reads like it was written by AI?

The wording seems similar to Zuckenberg's memes - i bought human food. It was nice.

 

[Saber]

Not sure how that works, but the old one sucks since they don't know if own the game or not. Basically all my physical games are impossible to rate, while most of digital can be rated.

 

[Games of Today]

This is a great addition to the UI, glad they added this. Though I don't browse the store that much.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Sony sure is good to us.

 

[poodaddy]

Nice.

I better see a 5 star rating on Demon's Souls next time I hop on.

 

[tmlDan]

Gollums rating is still too high lol

 

[Darkkahn]

Time to go back and rate some games.

Walking simulators, here I come!

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Yeah this is going on for months.

 

[skit_data]

It's a step in the right direction but the feature I miss that seems like an obvious one would be to actually find other games by the same developer easily (like a separate store page with all their games included).

It's quite absurd that to find other games by Housemarque after playing Returnal I had to go browse the web. Really wierd, it should be front and center, especially when it's a first party developer.

 

[Punished Miku]

It's a step in the right direction but the feature I miss that seems like an obvious one would be to actually find other games by the same developer easily (like a separate store page with all their games included).

Switch has something similar most people don't know about. Pick a game and you can click on the publisher link near the game title. Extremely useful during sales.

 

[March Climber]

Two things they should add immediately:

1) Some form of check to where you can only rate a video game if you have played the game/launched the application.

2) Put a "This person earned the 'finished game' trophy" disclaimer next to their review.

Both would help with random review bombing and 5/5 hype review spam.

 

[Fake]

Strange how long is take for Sony to implement such things that Steam had for ages.

What next? You can gift the game instead of buy for yourself?