Reviews

I’m not exactly certain why, but I’ve rarely, if ever, left a review on a product I obtain or application I use. I’ve left “reviews” for two steam games, reviews being in qutotes because one was just three short bulleted lines and the other was just “Great Game.” Not very substantial at all, really.

I’ve attributed my lack of reviewing to the odd timeline of making a review. You can’t really do it on initially receiving the product, because who knows if it’s truly good or not? Maybe it’ll go kaput after a month or so, time will tell. So you give it time, get used to the product, test its mettle, and you’ll find that you forget to write a review entirely.

At this point, you:

• Just don’t write a review ‘cause you’re lazy.
• Go to write a review, read all of the other reviews, realize that they’ve said what needs to be said and leave.
• Write a review, think it’s not good, and refrain.
• Actually write a review. I do not often go dwon this subpath.

Annoyance

Apps are different from games and products in the sense that often enough you’ll be annoyed enough to write a review eventually, (and in some cases, they’ll still annoy you to write a review after you’ve written one!) I’ve left a review on the YouVersioon Bible app for this reason, it really is a good app and I really appreciate using it but I don’t think I would’ve reviewd it had I not been reminded to. I just forget sometimes!

But physical products and games usually don’t have the capability to do such things. You just have to use it, remember to write one, and actually commit to writing one.

And short reviews always feel underbaked to me, so I always make them too long. I think I make everything too long; this entire post was one paragraph in my mind.

In the end, I question: what’s the benefit? To reel people into the hive of buyers of {blank product}? Is the entire review system not just a multi-level-marketing scheme?