henke on 7/6/2018 at 15:04
Quote Posted by Judith
If that was true for eveything you can buy, people would be spending days doing nothing but watching reviews
I realize I may have just shared too much about how I spend my days. :o
edit: so, do some people actually buy games without doing any research first? Personally, even if it's just a 5€ game I usually check the metacritic average, look at a couple gameplay videos, and perhaps even check the Steam discussion to see what the current state of the game is like.
256 colors on 7/6/2018 at 15:05
Does this mean more broken and out dated crap games like Toilet Tycoon?
Renault on 7/6/2018 at 15:14
Now if only they would good rid of Early Access.
Thirith on 7/6/2018 at 15:18
Why? Early Access is a tool that can be used well or badly, but getting rid of it entirely strikes me as throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Sulphur on 7/6/2018 at 16:15
I'm just irritated that I have to use the curator interface to find stuff amid the flood of dreck. It's bad enough already with the shovelfuls of engine test levels slapped together with some random theming passed off as games, now we'll get more of that but with the bonus of it being even more offensive.
Yakoob on 7/6/2018 at 23:49
I'm less concerned with Steam's policy on free speech than Steam's policy of quality control (or lack thereof). I love the idea of creating a truly open market with the right kind of algorithm and user-self regulation that really equalize the playing field, but I'm starting to become skeptical if that is really possible anymore.
I've listened to an interesting Sam Harris Podcast with an economic historian about social networks and how, historically, the open-ness tends to result in clustering and polarization. The examples are invention of printing press (which helped break up the Catholic church) and social media polarization. We see that on Steam as well - popular games keep getting more popular and smaller titles sink quickly. There is no real "middle class" of games.
For reference, said podcast: (
https://samharris.org/podcasts/117-networks-power-chaos/)
Nameless Voice on 7/6/2018 at 23:58
I think Steam really needs some way that people can link similar games together, rather than just via tags.
A way for people to suggest to the system that "if you liked that, then you will probably also like this".
It tries to do this based on tags, but it doesn't always work fully. Plus, it only works on games that you have played recently, rather than allowing people to somehow tag specific games that they liked and would like to find more similar to.
Renzatic on 7/6/2018 at 23:59
What Yak and Sulp said. Whether you're a libertarian excited by the prospect of an open market, an alt-right sympathizer finally allowed to release your anti-feminist cuck game on a store that gives you access to millions of people, or a liberal disgusted by the prospect of some idiot using the platform for hate speech, the end result is going to be thousands of asset flip games with names like ZOMBE SHOOT SHOOT ZOMBE AN DONT DIE" flooding the storefront.
But hey, this is what Valve wants to do. More power to them.
Judith on 8/6/2018 at 09:46
IMO they're doing the same thing game industry did with lootboxes; they think they're some special snowflakes because of how big they became, and since these are digital goods, the real-world rules somehow don't apply to them. And it will happen exactly like with lootboxes: at some point someone from the outside will step in, and either tell those manchildren to grow up and self-regulate, or will do that for them.
Tommyph1208 on 8/6/2018 at 11:09
I for one don't really mind... Let the people decide what they want to support and what they don't want to support... Hopefully silly people with silly hateful, discriminating or in other ways bad content will end up figuring out that making their silly shit isn't profitable and they'll go back home to their basement and cry. Steam will be like the internet, you can find what you want on there... dosn't mean you have to...
Consider the alternative... Steam strongly regulating everything that goes into the store... What if their views don't align with yours?
