The Indie Response to Steam’s Major User Review System Overhaul

What a week this has been! On Tuesday morning I (and many other frustrated indie devs) woke up to discover thatSteam’s latest update took a chainsaw to the user reviews for our games on the marketplace.

In a nutshell, under this new policy, any user reviews left by someone who did notdirectly buy the game through Steam, are no longer counted ina game’s overall review average score. They can still be left, but they’re buried deep in a series of menus. That’s…errr…a load of horse feces, to put...