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Steam’s new language-specific review scores highlight Japanese players’ tendency to leave only negative reviews. Gamers fear this might affect Japanese language support for future releases (automaton-media.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This is the first I’ve heard of this reviewing trend.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    if you look at japanese restaurants in google maps, most of them are rated at 3 stars. japanese never give 5 stars at most its 4, and they will give lower for even the slightest inconveniences. if you see 4 stars above then that means there's a lot of tourists frequent there.

    source, i've been there twice and was dumbfounded

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is the same culture that will absolutely not speak out or ask for a change in ingredients for fear of dishonouring the chef and the staff.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When's the last time you checked ratings on maps? I just looked at Sakata, a small city in Tohoku with no shinkansen line, and plenty of the ratings were above 4 stars. Seemed to be the same all over the place.

    I don't think japanese people are unique for leaving dumb reviews. Pretty sure you can find people in all countries saying shit like "store was closed when I went, 1 star".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    its pretty impossible to say a statement that blanket a whole country, but there is enough evidence to form the opinion

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