[ SECRET POST #6737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6737 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There is a fundamental difference, IMHO, between playing a game and reviewing a game.

Playing a game is something you do for fun. You can engage with it through whatever lens you want -- easy settings, only play halfway, ignore X or Y feature entirely. Your fun, your rules.

Reviewing a game is something you do for profit, be it as part of your job, ad revenue, or clout. IMHO, that means you need to engage with it on a level befitting a professional in that field.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm, not every review is professional though, if a friend is posting a game rec/review for their other friends, I'd appreciate knowing parts of their rec (like "you can use any class you want" or "this game doesn't require much grinding") may flat out not apply to people not playing on pure story mode

That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with story mode. But that rec/review only applies to that mode

[(Anonymous)]

If you're only posting a rec or thoughts on a game for your friends, with no other intended audience at all, that's not a review, it's just a blog post sharing your personal feelings with your friends. I don't expect anything more from those sorts of personal recs than "this was my experience and I enjoyed it".

Anything else I want to know about the game itself, that's on me to find out.

[(Anonymous)]

It is a review if you're literally posting "I played this game and here's my review of it" which is a thing many people do? It'd be a bit strange to go up to them and be like "no, that doesn't count as a review because I said so"

There's no hard and fast rule about what counts as a review, only whether one is professional (paid) or not

[(Anonymous)]

In terms of what I expect from a 'review', there is absolutely a difference.

A review given for profit should be held to a particular standard. A 'review' on a personal blog, for the interest of the poster's own friends can say whatever the hell it wants, and there should be no expectation that they'd know which features are or are not available on which settings.

Again: one is played for enjoyment, and shared for the same reason, while the other is played and shared for profit.

To judge people who enjoyed a game and posted a personal review, for their own enjoyment and that of their friends, by the same standards you'd judge someone paid to review games professionally (i.e., expecting them to have played on every difficulty and know the fundamental ins-and-outs of what options are and are not available on which difficulties) is ridiculous.

[(Anonymous)]

What I said: (quote) if a friend is posting a game rec/review for their other friends, I'd appreciate knowing parts of their rec may flat out not apply to people not playing on pure story mode

What you somehow read: I judge every casual review exactly the same and with exactly the same standards as I judge all professional reviews

I don't know how we got here, but here we are.

[(Anonymous)]

What universe are you living in where unpaid reviews are only ever posted on personal blogs for the enjoyment of someone's friends? What do you think reviews on sites like GoodReads or Amazon are?

[(Anonymous)]

But it is a review. Secret OP didn't specify professional reviews. People share their reviews of games all the time all over the internet in a non professional manner.

[(Anonymous)]

In that case, I see why this is a secret. Judging casual players sharing their experiences with their friends for playing on easy mode and only sharing that specific experience, just because they happen to call it a 'review', is an asshole thing to do.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It's just as weird to me to insist that people who are writing reviews, listing pros and cons and giving star ratings to game content like sound/graphics/story/gameplay, and intending them to be reviews, are not reviewing games to you because they're posting on their journal instead being paid to post on IGN.

Imagine if you did all that, meant it to be a review because your hobby is reviewing video games, then someone went "nah, that's not a review." What the heck lol

[(Anonymous)]

But unpaid reviews aren't just people sharing experiences with their friends or writing on their blogs. With all due to respect, that's a ridiculous thing to think.

The reviews on, for example, a game's Steam store page are not paid, and are written not by professionals but by people who just enjoy playing games. These reviews are intended to give total strangers an idea of what to expect from the game, and whether it's worth their time to buy it. People (again: total strangers browsing the store, not friends of the reviewers!) make purchasing decisions based off of these reviews. They can have a genuine effect on whether a game does well, and on what sort of reputation it develops.

Within that context, yes, people who are leaving reviews should ideally have played in such a way that they'll be able to speak to the game's mechanics, not just its story.

[(Anonymous)]

The secret maker put “review” in quotes. To me that implies they’re not just talking about professional reviews, and in fact are targeting things that are review adjacent— like a blog post.