Why can't steam just go back to the greenlight system.
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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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2010 is generous. They've been shoveling shitware for much longer than that!
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Oh, I see. Thank you for the information.
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I do hold nfs hp 2010 as well as nfs mw 2012 in a good light, so that's why "like" 2010
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Subjective. Unbound was a pretty good nfs game. People just didn't like the art style. The Sims 4 is just the Sims but f2p/pay to do anything fun. Battlefield 2042 gets overhated. It's exactly the same as bf4 but better movement, more plauers, more modes, private servers, customer games. But what did people cry about? "HerOes WItH aBilItiEs" but those "abilities" are so insignificant that it literally doesn't matter. People just cry so they can cry. The community ruins battlefield more than the devs do. I might be biased on BF because I've played an enjoyed literally every battlefield game made to date. Including their f2p one and console exclusives on PS2. Which means I've also seen how the community acts for each game. And the trending thing for BF is "the last game was the best this new one sucks" so when the next bf comes out. People will say " man I wish it was like 2042, that one was so good". The best example is when V came out. People hated BF1 because " no one wants to fight on trenches" and then V came out " women weren't in WW2. i thought this game was all about being a war simulator" and make BFV is " the good game" now.
And I'll admit on some games like battlefront 1 was a disaster, 2 had to be fixed.
Need for speed micro slot machine (payback?) was a fucking joke.
Burnout ended decades ago, idk why that was even brought up lol.
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Unbound is... an improvement over heat, yeah. I own a copy, only because it's a birthday gift and it was $10. I own heat, got it for $1.25, want me $1.25 back. Whatever the one with the upgrade cards system is trash - and I pre-ordered it. NFS 2015 is... Soulless, awkward. Nevertheless, they all pale in comparison to their older brethren. I've been on the nfs train since 3, I own almost all of them, across multiple systems. It's been an honestly depressing downward spiral - and my friends agree, so it's not just a sole data point. I think I'm the only one who has heat or unbound, even though I poked people when heat was a dollar, even when unbound was five. That's... not good. These are people who also love racing games, also love the series.
Burnout got a remaster on the EA App. I bought it, because the ultimate box on pc never included big surf island, and I wanted to experience it. But also, EA bought Criterion to shutter the competing series. They belong in that list. EA killed the game, then they gutted and merged the studio, then restarted the studio in name only trying to do damage control. Then, they used it for a quick buck with burnout, with no effort at all. Similar how the re-release of TS1 and 2 is. EA is essentially serving shovelware itself at this point, ruining the last of their goodwill from the 'good old days'.
I've read battlefield (whatever the latest one is) was half-baked on launch, and from friends who play it, told me to get CoD instead (which is a low blow if I've ever seen one; that's a series that needs to be put out to pasture, imo). Older versions apparently have shitty/broken multi-player game browsing now, and the player base is dwindling because of it. I can't independently verify any of this, just trusted friends and reviews. The last one I played myself was bad company 2, and I thought it was alright, no big problems.
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