The Wisdom of the Gaming Crowd

Jeffrey, Robert C.; Bian, Pengze; Ji, Fan; Sweetser, Penny

doi:10.1145/3383668.3419915

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Detecting Spam Game Reviews on Steam with a Semi-Supervised Approach

Bian

Liu

Sweetser

2021

The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2021

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The potential value of online reviews has led to more and more spam reviews appearing on the web. These spam reviews are widely distributed, harmful, and difficult to identify manually. In this paper, we explore and implement generalised approaches for identifying online deceptive spam game reviews from Steam. We analyse spam game reviews and present and validate some techniques to detect them. In addition, we aim to identify the unique features of game reviews and to create a labelled game review dataset based on different features. We were able to create a labelled dataset that can be used to identify spam game reviews in future research. Our method resulted in 5,021 of the 33,450 unlabelled Steam reviews being labelled as spam reviews, or approximately 15%. This falls within the expected range of 10-20% and maps to the Yelp figures of 14-20% of reviews are spam.CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing; • Software and its engineering → Interactive games; • Applied computing → Computer games.

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Detecting Spam Game Reviews on Steam with a Semi-Supervised Approach

Bian

Liu

Sweetser

2021

The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2021

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Formal Organization and Complex Responses to Video Games Narratives

Bellini

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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The application of complex systems theories to the study of narratives proved able to offer a high heuristic value for the analysis of movies [24,26], TV series [35,36], music [45] and different other media with narrative capacity [cf. 20]. However, they were not yet thoroughly employed for the study of video game narratives. To address the relation between formal complexity and the complexity of response in video games, this paper conducts a contrastive analysis of two games of the Halo series, namely Halo 3 [6] and Halo 3 ODST [7]. Formal complexity is analyzed by applying Cutting's [13] approach for counting (narratorial) complexity. The evaluation of the responses to the narratives of these games is based on crowdsourced data, through Hven's [24] and Kiss and Willemsen's [26] understanding of audience response. The findings reveal that a complex response is at least partly predictable through an analysis of the formal quantitative and qualitative/organizational aspects of narratives, and, ultimately, that narrative complexity is a factor in the appreciation of games by the audience. The paper also poses the basis for the identification of a "Goldilocks level of complexity', which can maximize the appreciation of video games stories.

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Exploring Players’ Perspectives: A Comprehensive Topic Modeling Case Study on Elden Ring

Dehghani,

Zaman

2024

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Game reviews heavily influence public perception. User feedback is crucial for developers, offering valuable insights to enhance game quality. In this research, Metacritic game reviews for Elden Ring were analyzed for topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and a hybrid model combining both to identify effective methods for extracting underlying themes in player feedback. We analyzed and interpreted these models’ outputs to learn the game reviews. We aimed to identify the differences, similarities, and variations between the three to determine which provided more valuable and instructive information. Our findings indicate that each method successfully identified keywords with some similarities in identified words. The LDA model had the highest silhouette score, indicating the most distinct clustering. The LDA-BERT model had a 1% higher coherence score than LDA, indicating more meaningful topics.

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The Wisdom of the Gaming Crowd

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Detecting Spam Game Reviews on Steam with a Semi-Supervised Approach

Detecting Spam Game Reviews on Steam with a Semi-Supervised Approach

Formal Organization and Complex Responses to Video Games Narratives

Exploring Players’ Perspectives: A Comprehensive Topic Modeling Case Study on Elden Ring

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