If this is to give more context to reviews that give poor reviews for the performance of a game, why don't they just have the user's full system specs visible somewhere? They do already collect that info.
I mean what if they use something like the ROG Ally?
I agree good. Idea. its like when people watch a movie on their iphone and then say it wasnt that good. You'll enjoy a game more on a big screen running high fps
Games have specs on steam. We could easily get a performance percentage for gamers with less than optimal setups without blasting their systems.
I personally have a good one yet may struggle during forced windows updates or when my ssd is getting heavy loads from my other apps. That would not be caught by such ratings.
I'm not the biggest fan of having system specs by default listed for every review in Steam game reviews.
why don’t they just have the user’s full system specs visible somewhere?
First, Steam does not have the information about each user. Secondly, it could be harmful too. Imagine years from now, games get updated, drivers get updated, hardware changes. Not only the system spec information would be outdated and no longer useful, it would be also counter productive.
Also on a minor level, I would not want to write reviews if my system specs get leaked every time. I just want to write my opinion, that's all. So at the very least, this would be an optional feature. And at the moment, nobody is stopped from writing relevant system specs in the review manually. There is a reason why most people don't bother with specs; because it's not that helpful as you might imagine. Maybe in certain cases it might be helpful, but often it is misleading; like: "oh he has problems because its a low end hardware", when in reality it is not the cause of the problems (maybe forgotten gpu driver update or a game bug).
They do already collect that info.
No, they they don't. Otherwise it would make no sense to have the optional opt-in Steam survey. Steam does not collect information about your system without your knowledge. Otherwise it would be classified as spyware.