the state of games these days

Part of it has to do with Steam just letting the library get diluted with utter rubbish making it look like the Apple App Store...

This doesn't bug me half as much as developers making their way perpetually in Alpha/Beta, taking money, growing the game beyond the original idea and pocketing a hefty percent instead of finishing the initial build. By the time the game gets released (if it lasts that long) everyone has either put in their time and are bored and moved onto the next thing or forgot they're paying to be an Alpha tester and complain about bugs and never get on with it. This isn't even restricted to Steam Indie games, Battlefield 1 springs to mind too.
Please for the love of god finish the god damn game before you release it, if you can't afford to then there's other means of investment.
I would prefer it if Steam put a price cap on unfinished games, £10 or something.
 
http://www.pcgamer.com/more-than-60...-year-almost-as-many-in-the-10-years-to-2015/

People get far too worked up about the amount of games on Steam.

A lot of these gamers miss the point of the platform. Aye, it has some bad games, but what storefront doesn't? Steam is an open market, you can purchase what you want, if it's available. It's like going to the library, i know there are some ***** books on display, but there are excellent book there too. It's all subjective. What's good for me, might not be good for another and vice-versa.

I don't want a gaming store dictating what i can and can't buy, just because it maybe doesn't suit the ideology of a company. It's the reason i don't buy on GOG or play on consoles, as each title is mainly hand picked. I know some good games have been knocked back from GOG.

Steam can get better, sure. But i'd rather have it, than not.
 
Rock_n_Roll said:
http://www.pcgamer.com/more-than-60...-year-almost-as-many-in-the-10-years-to-2015/

People get far too worked up about the amount of games on Steam.

A lot of these gamers miss the point of the platform. Aye, it has some bad games, but what storefront doesn't? Steam is an open market, you can purchase what you want, if it's available. It's like going to the library, i know there are some ***** books on display, but there are excellent book there too. It's all subjective. What's good for me, might not be good for another and vice-versa.

I don't want a gaming store dictating what i can and can't buy, just because it maybe doesn't suit the ideology of a company. It's the reason i don't buy on GOG or play on consoles, as each title is mainly hand picked. I know some good games have been knocked back from GOG.

Steam can get better, sure. But i'd rather have it, than not.
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the biggest problem is the "developers" who release the same game with 150 version with asset flips. at least valve caught them but theirs probably many more unnoticed..
 
Thing is with Steam, a lot of shovelware gets through with no QA checks.

Plus, have you seen the ads on YouTube of mobile games that are blatent Pokémon and LoL copies? It seems much easier to piggyback current ideas, rather than come up with something innovative nowadays.

Reckon we're due a gaming crash soon?
 
Rock_n_Roll said:
http://www.pcgamer.com/more-than-60...-year-almost-as-many-in-the-10-years-to-2015/

People get far too worked up about the amount of games on Steam.

A lot of these gamers miss the point of the platform. Aye, it has some bad games, but what storefront doesn't? Steam is an open market, you can purchase what you want, if it's available. It's like going to the library, i know there are some ***** books on display, but there are excellent book there too. It's all subjective. What's good for me, might not be good for another and vice-versa.

I don't want a gaming store dictating what i can and can't buy, just because it maybe doesn't suit the ideology of a company. It's the reason i don't buy on GOG or play on consoles, as each title is mainly hand picked. I know some good games have been knocked back from GOG.

Steam can get better, sure. But i'd rather have it, than not.
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Random thread to post in considering it hasn't been posted on in 2 months...

But nonetheless - I disagree - Quantity is not better than Quality.

As I said in my previous post in this thread, the iOS store is getting the same way - It's full of junk apps, and unless the store is prepared to properly organise the good from the bad, it slowly becomes a very jumbled up mess.

I've seen some really awful examples of games make their way onto the Steam store, and I don't agree that anyone should be allowed to sell on there. There needs to be a limit.
 
Think people are confusing a business with what they want a gaming platform to be.

While Io agree that thousands of shovelware games is bad for everyone, as it helps to hide genuinely good indie games, I don't believe steam has some moral right to display every game that gets submitted to them blindly.

I don't want a gaming store dictating what i can and can't buy, just because it maybe doesn't suit the ideology of a company. It's the reason i don't buy on GOG or play on consoles, as each title is mainly hand picked. I know some good games have been knocked back from GOG.
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I assume you don't use any kind of shop anywhere then? Because they dictate what you can and cant buy. It's a business, they have every right to hand pick what they sell and I'm pretty sure they couldn't give two hoots about the ethics involved.
 
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