The Graveyard - What The Hell Are Steam Doing?

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This thread is really for the owners of Steam. If you have seen The Graveyard demo on the store or played it, i would like to know your thought on firstly what the hell the point of this "explorable painting" being put on the earth and secondly why the hell Steam are putting this kind of crap on their store? They can't be running out of games to be honestso why do it? i would be very surprised if they got 1 sale out of that piece of bum rubbish.

Description;
The Graveyard is a very short computer game. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with poetry and storytelling but without words.

Buying the full version of The Graveyard adds only one feature, the possibility of death. The full version of the game is exactly the same as the trial, except, every time you play she may die.

:confused::confused::confused:
 
I thought "yeah, nice try students", removed the trial and moved on :). Somebody will find it entertaining.
 
Steam has loads of crap on it just now, from both indie and well-known publishers and I don't see why this annoys you so much. And just because you don't like it, or feel that it's not worth 'playing' doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same.
 
I don't see why Steam shouldn't have everything they can get to be honest. The fact that the service offers a huge variety is a major selling point as far as I'm concerned. As someone has already mentioned, the worth of this particular 'game' is irrelevant, it looks like a new idea and if Steam are interested in promoting innovation (which they clearly are judging by most of the titles Valve/Steam offer) then good on them.

Variety, innovation: two things the industry badly needs and which Steam is offering.
 
It's a piece of art -house interactive software. I don't see whats hard to understand about that or why it's existance offends you. It's completely up front about what it is.
It's not quite my cup of tea but I'm glad obscure things like this exist and are available because they push things in different directions.
I think you need to stop trying to judge it as a game and realise it's not for you. At the very least you could just ignore it.
 
Sigh.

Steam is a digital distribution platform. They sell games. They give smaller, lesser known "Indie" devs the chance to distribute their game. Sure, you might not like it, but someone else might, no need to be selfish.

If you don't like it, don't buy it.
 
This thread is really for the owners of Steam. If you have seen The Graveyard demo on the store or played it, i would like to know your thought on firstly what the hell the point of this "explorable painting" being put on the earth and secondly why the hell Steam are putting this kind of crap on their store? They can't be running out of games to be honestso why do it? i would be very surprised if they got 1 sale out of that piece of bum rubbish.

Description;
The Graveyard is a very short computer game. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench and listen to a song. It's more like an explorable painting than an actual game. An experiment with poetry and storytelling but without words.

Buying the full version of The Graveyard adds only one feature, the possibility of death. The full version of the game is exactly the same as the trial, except, every time you play she may die.

:confused::confused::confused:

If this is the most bothersome thing in your life at the moment you're a pretty lucky guy...
 
the devs are a-holes. The "game", is pure crap. Bad modelling, bad scripting (birds flying through buildings and floors now?) Bad animations, bad concept.. bad trees (a rotating plane is not a tree.) I could have made something better before I even started uni on a games design course.

They dont listen to reviewers (big reviewers) who say its not a game, they choose
to not acknowledge peoples opinions if they speak the truth.
Their other game is a deer mmo :/

Why are valve even affiliated with them?
 
the devs are a-holes. The "game", is pure crap. Bad modelling, bad scripting (birds flying through buildings and floors now?) Bad animations, bad concept.. bad trees (a rotating plane is not a tree.) I could have made something better before I even started uni on a games design course.

They dont listen to reviewers (big reviewers) who say its not a game, they choose
to not acknowledge peoples opinions if they speak the truth.
Their other game is a deer mmo :/

Why are valve even affiliated with them?
What truths are these? This was never marketed as a technical masterpiece. Graphics aside, everything else about this game is a matter of taste. Do Valve have to right to decide for us if this is or isn't art?
 
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