Steam's new low game listing rules have led to some changes...

[A Black Falcon]

So long as I'm able to peruse items on the store as judged by other players, as in "high ranking" games as voted on by people playing them, I should still be able to find quality stuff, or at least popular stuff. "Hidden gems" become more difficult to find though, and that's the shame, those small developers that released something at a bad time and got "hidden" in a deluge of other big name releases won't have much of a chance of finding a niche if it's just one in a flood of garbage released that month.

Yeah, this is a very good point. Finding the "hidden gems" under such a mountain of awful of mediocre games is much, MUCH harder than it was before, that's for sure... and for people used to Steam actually being a place where you could find interesting games, that's kind of a problem. Now what, just ignore all of that stuff? That's one answer, but as you say, it comes at the cost of missing out on some interesting games. And no one really could research and know a lot about every single one of those games, not when Steam is getting, like, hundreds of games a month now or something like that...