Now that the option to display language-specific review scores has finally been added to Steam, publishers will have greater insight into how their games are performing in different regions, and possibly which regions to prioritize when it comes to which languages to localize for. In the wake of the update, Shinjisan, a Japanese streamer, made a post on X talking about the \u201cnegative review habit\u201d of Japanese people and how it could impact publishers in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhichever game I checked, the majority of Japanese reviews were negative,\u201d Shinjisan said in his post. \u201cHowever, if you actually read what the negative reviews are saying, you\u2019ll see that many of them are surprisingly reasonable.\u201d While acknowledging that there\u2019s nothing wrong with leaving bad reviews, the streamer suggested that many Japanese people only write reviews when they want to complain about a certain aspect of a game, but don\u2019t go out of their way to leave positive reviews on the games they liked. This means that Japanese-specific review scores on Steam will potentially be heavily skewed, representing only people who disliked a title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n