Why do chinese guys have small dixs?

No. I mean, as soon as it's listed, before anyone buys it, before anyone rates it, it's already 5/5 by default.

If no-one rates it, it's 'user rating' is 5/5! (Yes, that makes no sense, but that's what GOG does.)

If one person rates it. And they give it a 3. The average of 3 and 5 is 4. So the 'user rating' is 4, but the only one who rated it gave it a 3, so it's NOT an accurate user rating. And sorting the list by user rating gives an unrealistic and biased list, with things that are so crap, nobody bought it at the top.

Your first example proves my point. It has a single rating, and it's as low as possible, yet the 'user rating' is 2.6!

Because it's an average, the more people that provide a rating, the less each rating will change the overall score. In your example, with a single rating, the score changed from 5 to 2.6, a difference of 2.4. But the tenth person to rate it can, at best, only hope to change the score by a tenth of that. The hundredth person could, at best, change the score by 100th of that. And so on. Defaulting the score to 5 means that the score is always artificially biased high and will never reflect the true user rating.

Attachment 1: A proper rating system.
Attachment 2: How your example would look using this system. (Doesn't look quite as good as 2.6/5 does it.)

Rating chinese dix are we?

Please excuse my ignorance: What's a PTA meeting?

Parent Teacher Association.

thx :)

I think GOG needs to -repair- (not enhance, not improve, not mumbo jumbo: repair):
1) The IT broken stuff. And it isn't the review system only: the forum, the community wishlist, the store filters, CDN, looong delays on ticket support, gog galaxy...
2) The broken customer/user trust. (Equally important)

-OR- option B:

B) GOG opens the wallet and starts paying game reviews & review moderators. Instantly all the IT limitations/broken_features will be more bearable to us and will revitalize (repair?) our interest to post reviews

Easy! :)

Can't edit reviews. Bad
Filter system pretty useful. Good

And another thing (grumble grumble). Try this.

On the main general discussion page, try searching for "open source" without the quotes. What happens?

You'd think that would be an easy fix they would have done years ago :(

Yeah, I've seen this on other sites, like DeviantArt; where it was an open secret that the Popular/All Time was doctored because the actually most popular of all time was likely just hot fetish garbage. To also give a valid example, I counted the review ratios on AD 2044.

19:2:2:1. As a sidenote, there were no four star reviews. So that's 1, 2, 3, 5. Keeping in mind that ratings only are invisible, that's still an overwhelming ratio of low ratings. (Noting that I was only counting reviews in English for the sake of an example and forgot to turn off the language filter), this should place it what, around a 1.4? So why does it have a 2.2 overall?

Filter system could use more granularity or visibility in my opinion.

At least, the reviews should be tied to a specific game version. Imho it would be more helpful than a date range, since almost all of the problems are tied to a specific software version of a game.