Why can't steam just go back to the greenlight system.

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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.

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The greenlight system wasn't any better, all it did was gatekeep indie developers while still being easy to manipulate.

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Greenlight saw one of the biggests flood of shovel ware in Steam's history. The store hasn't actually recovered since.

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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.

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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.

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Greenlight was far worse of a problem.

I'd rather let all the shovelware onto Steam than gatekeep even one legitimate developer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Every time I see a hentai game I didn't want to see it is directly my fault because I am too scared to filter out Sexual Content (or whatever the tag is) and then have some great game not focused on sex, that just so happens to have sexual content included and a horny fanbase that marked it Sexual Content, get banished from my sight.

Not sure about people who do actually try to use the filters to avoid sexual content though, if you have them set up and are still seeing it that's definitely a problem.

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cesspool of bullshit games

You sure you aren't confusing Steam with the EA App?

(god that name is completely braindead)

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That's not how it worked

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Doubtful

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Yeah this still happens except they sell puzzle games now.

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EA has EA games...... I don't get the jab?

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Can you explain the Will Smith reference? I am unaware of any affiliation he has with Steam / Valve.

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It's because EA games have been regurgiated trash since like 2010

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What games do you play?

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There is a steamer named Will Smith as well.

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The NFS series ("look how they massacred my boy"), The Sims, Burnout mostly. Battlefield as well, I've watched that series implode from the sidelines instead of in my face.

O.o @ your last sentence there. I'm a flaming gay furry, diversity is great.

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Why can't steam just go back to the greenlight system.