You've openly said you were standing up for this game and that you loved it. If that isn't bias, I don't know what is.
This is exactly my point too in another post. If we define bias in that way, then it works in the other way round, too. Many people here clearly stated that they dislike Black Geyser for whatever reasons (these can be valid reasons too), some other just say it's not bad for a first game but clearly inferior to Pillars a lot. These are subjective statements too, because as I said, some people love Black Geyser much more than Pillars. Not many people compared to the overall audience, but reviews reflect that their numbers are not small (I read many reviews, especially now that I have to argue in these forums to protect this gem). Because some people enjoy Geyser better than they enjoyed Pillars. This exists. Live with it. So every such opinion is subjective, because it's a creative product, a result of artistic work (in conjunction with engineering to make the "art" a reality that runs on your computer). Now, it's weird to me that exactly those people who dislike Black Geyser (or consider it MUCH worse than Pillars) are trying to prove how Steam's rating system is suboptimal or totally useless to compare the quality of two games. For some reason, the correlation is almost perfect between the two groups.
I'm not trying anything, certainly not to discredit the game as you implied.
I didn't say that. I said that you were trying to discredit the ability of Steam review score to make two games comparable in their quality. You didn't try to discredit Black Geyser. Your subjective opinion is OK about Black Geyser. You're entitled to it.
Anyway, they are beside the point; Steam scores are about games being worth buying, not compare them and even less trying to make a quality ratio.
I think there is one very, very important point to clear. I never said the comparison it offers is perfect. I never said that there are no
mistakes. Every system makes even huge mistakes. Even the judicial system. Innocent people are sometimes sentenced to jail or worse. Still, we consider the judicial system functional. So, yes, it is surely possible to find games where comparing them via Steam score gives an unrealistic result. But, in general, the score on Steam gives a good comparability (except in rare cases where it makes a mistake - see judicial system).
Your above statement about "worth buying, not compare" is self-contradictory. In general, something that is worth buying for a
user implies that it's quality is most likely not horrible. Again, counter examples are possible. But statistically, it works. In comparisons, too: if x is worth buying more than y, then the quality of x is most likely higher than quality of y. AGAIN, there are tricks (especially from big companies) to distort this, and there are also natural mistakes. As with any rule system. But overall, in
most cases, it's safe to assume that quality follows from how a product is worth buying. Nobody said the system is foolproof. No system is.