Starker on 9/6/2018 at 07:41
And Half-Life: Episode 3, Team Fortress 3, and Dota 3 for another set of threes. Seriously, it's increasingly starting to look like they are just mortally afraid of the number three.
scumble on 9/6/2018 at 12:49
I watched Jim Sterling's video here as well - in fact I only learned about Asset flips and the other crap on Steam from him. I've never actually used Steam as a basis for finding decent games, TTLG has always been enough to pick up recommendations for me, or more recently the handful of youtubers who aren't crap that I've usually seen linked to here.
On one hand it doesn't matter to me what Valve does with Steam, but I do take the point that the company must be rolling in money and seems somewhat lazy. Personally I'd be ashamed to have AIDS simulator knocking about on my storefront, so I wonder if the accountants are just looking at numbers and seeing the income from awful shit as worth having.
Ultimately it just looks like Capitalism to me - not surprising but maybe disappointing in some way. I've given up on thinking that there might be an actual
game from Valve again, but I wonder why they aren't making one.
Nameless Voice on 9/6/2018 at 15:01
I can't say I've noticed these "asset flip" games either, and I do occasionally look through Steam's suggested games and discovery queues. I still think their algorithms could be a lot better.
Pyrian on 9/6/2018 at 17:56
I usually like Jim a lot, but that video is mostly nonsense. AIDS Simulator was pulled from Steam. Steam checks all new games for basic functioning; Jim once upon a time found one game that didn't have an executable, and another that he couldn't get to run, and claims EVER SINCE that Steam doesn't check at all because something fell through the update cracks and into the hands of a guy who loves to scrape the absolute bottom of that barrel. As long as we're going with the grocery store metaphor, I've found expired items on the shelf too, if you dig deep and long enough.
Furthermore, Steam sells media, not groceries. If a bookstore can sell Main Kampf and the Communist Manifesto without endorsing their philosophies, then why can't Steam?
Judith on 10/6/2018 at 15:47
Yet still, even the worst book or movie has a beginning, middle, and end; you can't say the same about all the junk on Steam.
Pyrian on 10/6/2018 at 16:44
Quote Posted by Judith
Yet still, even the worst book or movie has a beginning, middle, and end...
Uh... What? If I take that literally, then every game does too, if I take it figuratively, then you haven't seen nearly enough bad books and movies. You can go to Amazon right now and purchase and have shipped a book that is 100% blank inside (and no I'm not talking about a sketchbook):
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https://www.amazon.com/What-Men-Know-About-Women/dp/1460993780)
If you look at the suggestions, you'll see that blank gag book is a frikken'
genre.There are blank music tracks for sale for money:
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https://www.amazon.com/433/dp/B00YEJ5Q7K)
Judith on 10/6/2018 at 16:53
That is a joke, and it's still better than half a level made from asset pack in Unity store. Or a game template that's just resold under a different name.
heywood on 11/6/2018 at 14:44
I don't see a problem. It's hard to imagine people just browsing Steam and randomly buying asset flips without at least a quick check to see if it's real and worth playing. But if that's what people want to do with their money, so be it.
Besides, Steam has a near-monopoly on PC game distribution. Because of that, they have something like a public duty to give everybody fair access, good developers and shitty developers alike.
WingedKagouti on 11/6/2018 at 14:52
Quote Posted by heywood
I don't see a problem. It's hard to imagine people just browsing Steam and randomly buying asset flips without at least a quick check to see if it's real and worth playing. But if that's what people want to do with their money, so be it.
Besides, Steam has a near-monopoly on PC game distribution. Because of that, they have something like a public duty to give everybody fair access, good developers and shitty developers alike.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY37GbE_tYc)
heywood on 11/6/2018 at 15:10
Doubling down on I see.
I haven't watched this guy, so I don't know what his usual shtick is, but that video is inane.
