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Reviews hardly seem to serve any purpose.  Star ratings without context are meaningless to both developers and buyers; star ratings with context are borderline superfluous, and far more granular than is actually useful.  Stars only seem to exist as a visibility metric to give the site a way to help popular games get more popular.  Want to help out a game?  Uprate it.  Want to actively hurt a game?  Downrate it.  On top of that, we can't even reply to reviews, making even a review with text a far less useful way to engage the developer than just leaving a comment.

If it weren't for the "top-rated" tab, I would probably just disable reviews.  That and the fact that it probably makes it look like I'm not open to feedback, when I'm actually trying to encourage it.