They are perfectly able to surf the web and social media to look for all the feedback they can possibly want.

One inconvenience that comes to mind when it comes to consoles is that it's generally tedious to type out elaborate messages.
So if I want to write some constructive game feedback, I'd usually do it with my keyboard.

And I do when I care about a game and there's a feedback survey after a Beta test.

Recent example is Guilty Gear: Strive, where they delayed the game based on that feedback, and are now improving things and implementing things that a lot of people asked for.

I think you can often find ways to get feedback to the devs. It's just not streamlined with a quick access button, like OP suggested.
And I think the reason for that is, have you seen the user reviews on Metacritic that are on one extreme end of the other?

I think the more hoops you have to jump through, the more it weeds out the non-serious people who just want to make shitposts.
Those who are passionate about making constructive criticism are more likely to make an effort than the shitposters.

Again like I said, tie this to the consoles like we have on steam. It will act more like a filter cuz devs will have direct access to the community. Like this forum or redit, how can you prove that you played a game or even own a gaming device or make dupe accounts and span reviews and other shit? We cant really know. At the very least you have a psn or xboxid that canot be duped and attaches a game to your account. It wont be perfect but its at least better than what we have right now.

From my understanding, they tend to gather feedback for a game during a specific time, where they publish a survey, either on their site, or via email. Once a certain date is reached, the survey will be closed, and they'll read all the feedback they got up until then.

Otherwise the sites tend to be for game PR, information and merchandise.

As for a score, it's possible to leave a rating (1-5 stars) on things you purchase on PSN.

I gave this free Nier costume DLC a perfect score, naturally.

This was one of the things that I liked about Miiverse on WiiU.  Each game had it's own forum, and you could tell if someone posting about a game actually owned the game or not, because a TV icon with a checkmark in it would appear on their post if they did.  Game devs had access to Miiverse and could, and did, interact with the players of their games.  I remember Barbie from Zen Studios being active in the Zen pinball games forums for example.

That sounds amazing. Had to be the one Nintendo console I skiped.(and many others)

So Nintendo can make some miiverse 2.0 or something. Would be amazing. 

i agree with the last point, only 30k refunded cyberpunk out of millions
on top of that metacritic and opencritic are balls

The X Box insider program lets you give feedback to Microsoft.

That 30K doesn't included refunds through Steam, Sony, MS, stores. That figure is only from those directly contacting CDPR to get help getting a refund when denied through other point of sale venues.

But yep, most people are simply too lazy to get a refund, wait until it gets better or simply forget about it and happily pre-order the next hot thing.

Anyway deception pays, big time, at least in the short run.


As for the OP. Steam user reviews are pretty pointless, just another popularity voting war. The forums are often toxic, fanboys vs haters. Steam frequently removes reviews from scoring to combat review bombing (or just unfavorable reviews) while the outcome is meaningless anyway. Thumbs up or thumbs down translated into a percentage, tell you absolutely nothing.