Greenlight saw one of the biggests flood of shovel ware in Steam’s history. The store hasn’t actually recovered since.
Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Why can’t steam just go back to the greenlight system. It was SUCH a better storefront then. Now it’s just a cesspool of bullshit games and bullshit “reviews” I rarely use it anymore.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 days ago
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That doesn’t make sense since the community as a whole would have to support a game before it hit the steam store. So… idk what you’re talking about. Grenlight was like a “hey guys I made this game where you play a stick man and you do a gem puzzle to unlock a flash animation naked furry girl!” No one would allow that to be greenlot, therefore it would never be on steam
After greenlight every fucking pos on the planet has made some kind of $2 scam game making Nintendo’s eShop look normal.
No greenlight = anyone and everyone can put anything on steam and sell it.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What you don’t remember where the armies of bot accounts it brought into Steam. People would pay for votes and get scams and money grabs greenlit while indies couldn’t even get a foot on the door. YouTube channels made series about playing the shovelware and mocking the system. There’s a reason it was done away with.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah this still happens except they sell puzzle games now.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Many great games wouldn’t be released without the current system giving them a chance. Shovelware is a problem, but I think it’s a fairer alternative.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Doubtful
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
cesspool of bullshit games
You sure you aren’t confusing Steam with the EA App?
(god that name is completely braindead)
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
EA has EA games… I don’t get the jab?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s because EA games have been regurgiated trash since like 2010
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 4 days ago
2010 is generous. They’ve been shoveling shitware for much longer than that!
simple@lemm.ee 4 days ago
The greenlight system wasn’t any better, all it did was gatekeep indie developers while still being easy to manipulate.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It didn’t gatekeep, it let people vote. And calling someone who makes a fury hentai game isn’t an “indie developer”. It’s a scammer.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
And “voting” favors developers/celebrities with userbases to flood the system. This was a well documented problem and many of the indie devs of the era complained.
Also: I am pretty sure you are just showing your ass, but people who make “furry hentai games” aren’t inherently “pieces of shit”. Valve 900% needs to improve the filters to let people who don’t want to see it ignore it (Will Smith is basically the only person who knows how to hide it, it seems) but those games deserve to exist just as much as the latest call of duty.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Can you explain the Will Smith reference? I am unaware of any affiliation he has with Steam / Valve.