28th May 2014, 10:07 AM
Sorting through "a dozen new games in a single day" isn't the reality. It's more like sorting through "a thousand new games every six months when you actually decide to peruse the store". No one constantly visits Steam's store every day, that's not how people use it.
Abandoning quality control... Well, that could become a problem if people can't find the good ones. Could be...
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.
I can see how it would be problematic, is what I'm saying. There's also the very basic fact that without SOME quality control, eventually we're going to see something truly offensive and terrible like "Godsmita: Destroy All Muslims" sneak through onto the store. (I just made that up, racists are fairly predictable.)
Abandoning quality control... Well, that could become a problem if people can't find the good ones. Could be...
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.
I can see how it would be problematic, is what I'm saying. There's also the very basic fact that without SOME quality control, eventually we're going to see something truly offensive and terrible like "Godsmita: Destroy All Muslims" sneak through onto the store. (I just made that up, racists are fairly predictable.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)