[STEAM] Latest Steam Beta branch lets you show hadware specs in reviews, and I hope it becomes mandatory

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Steam reviews are awesome until they become disingenuous. Image via Steam With the introduction of (currently optional)

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, this problem could become much less widespread. Making it mandatory would show us exactly what a user was trying to play the game on, potentially preventing them from leaving that negative review because they were trying to run the game beneath minimal requirements.

It'd also let us read the review and cross-reference it with the user's hardware, holistically analyzing their experience and gaining a much broader and more accurate depiction of the game's performance than otherwise. At the moment, anyone can claim to be running the game at any specs, potentially providing false information and dragging an overall review score down based on falsities.

Steam scans user hardware from time to time in various surveys, which would let the platform accurately portray your hardware in any given review. It's a significant step toward more transparency and review validity, one of many improvements in this respect that Valve has introduced over the past few years.

Review-bombing is a major problem for the platform, and I hope this takes us one step closer to annihilating it.

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