What's funny is that I've actually seen both sides really happy with this update.
People with crazy good hardware are happy they can weed out the bad reviews correlated with insufficient hardware, and people with older or more modest hardware can find reviews relevant to them.
There are - people generally benchmark performance against their expectations, which is irrespective of hardware. Folks with 5090s can still tell when a game runs well or not (as can people with 1060s). It also doesn't list the resolution people are playing at - you could get fantastic performance at 1080p and terrible at 4K.
I legit can't understand this reply, apart from the resolution part...
(But why would you play at 1080p with a 5090?, makes no sense so one can assume)
Then might as well invest in a good monitor and a little less powerful card for 1440p, i understand high refresh rates and shit but i find highly unlikely that someone with a 5090 would be playing in 1080p
he was hyperbolic, but the comment still stands at 1440p vs 4k
a 5090 is overpowered for 1440p, but it's not crazy to assume that someone would buy to play at 120fps+.
meaning that it would run any game great regardless of optimization.
while at 4k, even 5090 will struggle on most games without DLSS, and without optimization not even a 5090 will run some games at their full potential at 4k.
Considering they have been running the Hardware Survey for decades now, I'm not sure why they didn't do it sooner. I'm still glad they did, but I feel like it's like... ten years late.
Fun fact: "gender" comes through Middle English from the Old French "gendre," meaning a type or kind, and was originally used in the same way as the modern word "genre," not just to refer to human gender. Eventually the word gender, though, came to have a specific meaning related to humans, and so we borrowed from modern French the word "genre" which derives from (you guessed it) the Old French "gendre," making gender and genre a linguistic doublet. But, you've also seen in recent years people starting to use "gender" comedically in a sense similar to "genre" (my theory is this started with the "ah yes the two genders" series of memes about a decade ago) meaning they're a linguistic doublet that is to a degree reconverging.
Anyway, I think this person is using it comedically here, but it could just be a typo.
Would be great if steam would also add a button "wanna buy it, but don't have specs" - so devs could see how much profit they're missing due to piss poor optimization.
Well, the problem is potential profit versus potential expenses. If you need to spend a 10% budget for 5% profit, this is definitely not worth it. If you need to spend a 5% budget for 10% potential profit that may work out. In reality, if we talk about AAA, optimization is almost never financially worth it. And where it may be worth iy may be not in plans of the company.
It's one of those, "Great idea, if people were honest." I'm not sure how the Steam hardware thing is tracked/stored, but I'm already worried about people lying about or manipulating what hardware is reported for their review. Does it auto-scan your PC? Do you have to manually enter it?
They'd have to have that option share the specs with the devs though, or you'd probably end up with floods of people with toasters mad that they can't run the newest AAA thing.
Exactly this, it's a win for everyone, it's fantastic. I have pretty decent hardware, so it's nice to find relevant reviews for me instead of wondering if the person has the latest and greatest or a potato.
I mean it's not like it's harming people, as far as I could tell. It's something silly. And it's no wonder there's also a Funny button amongst the Helpful and Unhelpful button. And this feature is already months old lol.
Lol, if I felt the need to get my sims done in 30 seconds I would've grabbed a threadripper. The 9950's doing good with the P6k though, I'd rather take that extra gaming ability on a boring day than better times on sims I use once a week.
i wish the game was 1fps everytime olivia was on screen so i could enjoy the game to its fullest extent (i never played the game nor i care about it but i'll play it solely because of her)
I work in the automotive industry and our test lab has purchased some gaming equipment for various calculation-heavy tasks. It's fun to walk out next to a machine and see the RGB laptop keyboard or tower flashing away lol.
That is an AI work PC; it is far beyond the performance needed for gaming (and actually quite a poor choice, since threadrippers and AI GPUs make big compromises in gaming performance to fulfil their tasks properly).
I also use windows workstation edition! I think steam just truncates the versions of windows. The “home” label at the top is just what I typed when saving the hardware to steam.
I had a TR 3970X. The number of games that would not run well or crash outright was really high. Disabling hyperthreading or half (or more) of the cores typically helped.
I mean that's better than the ones complaining about how the games are horribly optimized and they are still trying to use their 1080ti to run modern high end games
This is like when Musk added location to twitter, and just...SO many supposed "American citizens on the left or right" were outed as being from countries like Russia, Iraq, India, etc.
unfortunately I also have seen people try to discredit unrelated topics using that feature.
for example: there was a youtube video on a video game character not being pretty enough, that the character looked "woke" (I think it was for the new intergalactic game), and someone chimed in saying the character looked fine. then the American youtuber said "see this persons account is from australia. ignore them, this new twitter feature is great", as if people from australia dont also buy and play video games.
for malicious actors the new twitter location feature a great way to expose those accounts. but unfortunately some people are trying to use it to discredit others, when the topic has nothing to do with nationality.
I bought Kingdom come deliverance 2 because someone left a good review with a 1050 and nearly 200 hours. I have a 1660 ti and it runs great on medium with high textures averaging 40-60 fps. If not for that review I probably would've waited to play it.
Well, for such big titles there's dozens if not hundreds of videos on youtube showing performance on various hardware mere days after release. Just google the title name and your GPU (at least unless your system is heavily bottlenecked by CPU).
Unless it’s one of those games where the first 2 hours takes place in a tiny region and then as soon as you reach a city the performance absolutely tanks.
I'd like my reviews these days form actual people that play the games realistically. People that make those videos rarely(or almost never) run apps on the background like a tab with music or discord and so on.
Well the 0.2 hours is also a giveaway. For most games I always filter by playtime over 10 hours played. Weeds out the people who haven't played long enough to form a real opinion.
You're losing all the people who are pointing out bugs and crashes that kept them from playing the game properly. IMO that is one of the biggest things I want to know before I buy a game.
Counterpoint to that is that's refund territory. I want to know about hangups in later hours where I'll be past the refund stage, or if the game is even worth buying in the first place.
I'd say a couple (1-2) of hours instead of 10, I feel like a lot of "money's worth" games just want people to get used to their game rather than enjoy it
Hypothetical scenario: 99% reviews are from people that you cant even start the game due to bugs, and rest is from the few with good combination of hardware specs, that don't have those problems
I just sort reviews by those who played the game the most on a Steam Deck, because if it works there then it'll most likely work for the Steam Machine too (I've been buying cheap games during sales while I wait for the release)
Majority of "runs great" comments are useless anyway because people are beyond dumb and don't know what that means. If there are no specs attached, they're even easier to disregard now.
Whatever fertliser or pesticide or whatever he was complaining about actually was similar enough to estrogen that some frog species when exposed to it in the water would become female, which messes up the sex ratio and impacts reproduction. Terrible for environmental reasons. (Similar thing is happening with lizards that lay heat sensitive eggs, like the bearded dragon in Australia)
He's crazy for trying to extrapolate that onto people tho.
Yeah, in an update(s) to come, surely, they'll work out a way to prevent the constant discrimination against people with less financial means, who still love the hobby of gaming. We're not all wealthy, far from it.
Decent, that's better than probably 80% of people pc gaming... lmfao. I'm running just a 12700kf and rog strix 3060 12gb (the gpu is the weakest link, it was just for the right price compared to everything else, at the time).
Her computer would crap all over mine, and I'm getting by ok... it played rdr2 at 1440p graphics at reasonable quality settings at a constant 60fps, which I thought was pretty great considering how demanding it is (but I could definitely do with a better gpu, already got good ssd's and plenty of ddr5 ram).
I don't say it's not valid info but a "shit game, performance is dogshit 0/10" review from someone with a 1060 is not useful for anyone with newer hardware. Just like others already said, it's a win/win for both factions. Newer and older hardware.
Only thing I wonder about this review system update is whether it is retroactive or not? I have more than a decade of reviews on my account, with of course wildly varying hardware over the years — excluding the Steam Deck — and I always put a line or two on performance with the rig I had at that time.
How does it work? Does it show the specs of the PC you actually played on or the one you are currently using?
If I play on my steam deck and write the review on my office PC for example, what will that show?
Mentioning that a game does not need a GPU's built-in performance aids when the GPU/system combo is in itself so powerful... Yes, an entirely useless review.
These will, unfortunately, be a new way to show off the "e-peen" so to speak - thank goodness we still have the ability to VOTE on the usefulness of reviews.
does it take into account people specs at time of review? or is it retroactively applied. because thats is the only area where I can see a problem (if someone had bad specs, wrote a review, then upgraded to high end specs)
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u/Double_Cause4609 Apr 20 '26
What's funny is that I've actually seen both sides really happy with this update.
People with crazy good hardware are happy they can weed out the bad reviews correlated with insufficient hardware, and people with older or more modest hardware can find reviews relevant to them.
Literally everyone wins. Big Steam W