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Article #697506Re: Steam shovelware
From: Mr Rob
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:18
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:18
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 05:54:02 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: >Eh... I don't have a problem with that. The more the merrier, as far as >I'm concerned. I'm viewed 7,534 games in the discovery queue so far, >as I find it actually pretty interesting to see what games are being >released on Steam even most of them are crap. Most games were crap even >before Valve opened the doors wide open. It's probably just a personal thing, but I used to enjoy Steam as a platform and looked forward to checking my discovery queue every day. Now I don't even bother starting Steam unless I want to play a game. There's so much dross to wade through now. Steam is like the Walmart of digital games stores these days. I'm with these guys on this https://www.vg247.com/2016/12/01/around-40-of-games-on-steam-were-released-in-2016/ "Thereยs no doubt the platform continues to see growth, but 2015 and 2016 in particular saw a deluge of releases that only exist as a means to profit from the trading cards economy. A lot of these games are essentially made with nothing more than stock assets found on the Unity store." More is not always better. In my humble opinion of course. -- Rob
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