The Epic Games Store’s anti-review bombing score system seems like a kind of customer support surveys

Since the second of the Epic Games Store‘s inception, Epic Games has had a specific stance about person evaluations, and game-specific boards. Those are a few of the most used, and infrequently helpful options on Steam, so it did not fairly make sense for Epic to resolve to not implement them in its retailer.

The firm at all times mentioned that the EGS will not characteristic boards as a result of they solely carry toxicity and are not well-liked amongst builders. It additionally will not embody person evaluations due to their potential for assessment bombing.

This week, years after the Epic Games Store first launched, two new options arrived that purpose to duplicate a model of person evaluations and tags.

Game Ratings are form of like evaluations, besides customers cannot really write something – there’s solely a star score on a five-point scale. Those who performed a recreation for greater than two hours can depart a score, however there’s one additional wrinkle: solely random gamers shall be requested to depart a score.

These surveys will pop up after you are performed taking part in a recreation. As extra gamers depart their very own score, the video games’ retailer pages will show an Overall Rating. Epic mentioned it will not “spam our players”, and also you should not count on to be requested to fee each recreation you play.

“This approach protects games from review bombing and ensures people assigning scores are actual players of the games,” mentioned Epic.

Game Polls, nevertheless, are successfully the Epic Games Store’s model of tags. Like scores, gamers shall be randomly requested to reply polls about video games they performed. The multi-option questions are meant to populate recreation tags, and can cowl issues like issue, multiplayer requirement and so forth.

Like scores, polls may also be mirrored on recreation retailer pages as soon as sufficient of them have been answered. The tags may also be used to create customized classes, and permit gamers to kind utilizing them.