27th May 2014, 2:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th May 2014, 4:06 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Now you can buy amazing games such as this one straight from Valve!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzN-3N_0xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYArgbWVtGc
Yes, this is a real game. :barf: For those who don't know, this year Valve completely abandoned all previous attempts at quality control on Steam. Now you can pretty much publish anything there. The result is that there have already been more Steam releases this year than there were in all of last year, and the numbers keep increasing quickly. Valve also added a thing called "Early Access", which lets people sell games before they are finished, on the promise that, really, someday we will finish the thing! Paid alphas or betas of games which may never be finished, mountains of terrible games clogging up Steam... this is the new Steam store.
And I should note, the game in those two videos up there is not Early Access; even many Early Access games aren't that atrocious. But it is in no way finished or even remotely competent. Still though, based on that second video... man is that game hilarious!
I laughed more than I have to a game in a while.
So what do I think? Well, allowing more games isn't all bad. There are lots of PC games, and Steam had probably been too restrictive in the past. But Valve now has probably gone too far in the opposite direction. And also, they need a better store! Of course I have never liked Steam's interface much, but with so many more game releases its problems show even more now. Steam's very basic game listing system in the store doesn't work well with so many releases! And they need to categorize stuff, too... there should be some way of sorting out awful garbage like Air Control there from actual decent games. So yeah, Steam has issues, and it's getting even worse. That people who used to defend Steam now have problems with it now shows that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzN-3N_0xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYArgbWVtGc
Yes, this is a real game. :barf: For those who don't know, this year Valve completely abandoned all previous attempts at quality control on Steam. Now you can pretty much publish anything there. The result is that there have already been more Steam releases this year than there were in all of last year, and the numbers keep increasing quickly. Valve also added a thing called "Early Access", which lets people sell games before they are finished, on the promise that, really, someday we will finish the thing! Paid alphas or betas of games which may never be finished, mountains of terrible games clogging up Steam... this is the new Steam store.
And I should note, the game in those two videos up there is not Early Access; even many Early Access games aren't that atrocious. But it is in no way finished or even remotely competent. Still though, based on that second video... man is that game hilarious!
I laughed more than I have to a game in a while.So what do I think? Well, allowing more games isn't all bad. There are lots of PC games, and Steam had probably been too restrictive in the past. But Valve now has probably gone too far in the opposite direction. And also, they need a better store! Of course I have never liked Steam's interface much, but with so many more game releases its problems show even more now. Steam's very basic game listing system in the store doesn't work well with so many releases! And they need to categorize stuff, too... there should be some way of sorting out awful garbage like Air Control there from actual decent games. So yeah, Steam has issues, and it's getting even worse. That people who used to defend Steam now have problems with it now shows that...
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