Steam: Let the shovelware dumping continue!

[Rykuta]

I'm annoyed, It's not too often I actually get annoyed enough to write about it, but this is getting straight up handicapped in here. I can understand wanting to inject a little more money into older games for nostalgia's sake like Battlefront 2 and Knights of the Old Republic; but who in their stupid right mind would want stuff like: "Escape The Lost Kingdom: The Forgotten Pharaoh" Some game that is apparently designed to run on Windows XP, or how about Freddi Fish? That game was around in the 90s... for an audience of first graders. Sure its nice to be reminded of these things, but holy crap the quantity of them being dumped on steam is just stupid.

I can't really decide what's more annoying though, the shovelware; games that have metascores of under 30 being plopped into steam to try to hijack money from suckers. Or maybe the iOS games being ported onto PC even though they play horribly and are usually ported handicappedly. Or how about those stupid Facebook games, yaknow the ones where you just click stuff to make stuff happen and wait hours on end for stuff to occur, those clones are great and I totally want to play them over games like Half-Life or Endless Legend.

The best part though is when you get to see stuff like this:


Stupid shovelware; but get this... ITS ON STEAMS NEW RELEASE PAGE TWICE :O AMAZING! It's almost like they're trying to keep their game up there even longer, despite the fact that it has ALREADY BEEN RELEASED 3 YEARS AGO, good freaking lord steam, are you drunk right now or are you just trying to give me excuses to use origin.

I literally find myself popping my way onto the early access section of steam, because at least those games are in the slightest bit worth paying for, even if they're utterly unfinished; I want new games, I'm bored, but steam doesn't have any... GOOD STUFF

Anyways I'm done, Steam is drunk and I'm not buying any new games on there any time soon, even if new good games get released; cuz they ain't getting my service till they at least separate their new releases page from actual new releases VS rereleases. Or maybe do some QUALITY CONTROL?

Agree, disagree, thoughts? I'd love to hear if anyone else is just as annoyed or willing to live with it. Nostalgia is not an excuse to ruin genuinely new games opportunities to succeed; and moneygrubbing is an even worse excuse.

EDIT: The picture is probably a glitch on steam, but its the reason that my sanity was driven over the end.

[Ad Bot]

[Decepticon]

ok


dont buy it

also, if you want new games, find them yourself. there's tons of games out there, not even in the early release section.

[Zanaran2]

or you can, you know, not buy them

[Rykuta]

Not buying them isn't going to stop them from being dumped onto steam. This isn't one of those problems that ignoring it or not feeding it will cause it to go away. You can literally dump this stuff on steam for free as of late, so anyone and their mother will be doing it. And I really appreciate the disinterested responses. Also, I haven't found any good ones worth my time, because I cannot find them, because they are being buried by shovelware.

[Decepticon]

Not buying them isn't going to stop them from being dumped onto steam. This isn't one of those problems that ignoring it or not feeding it will cause it to go away. You can literally dump this stuff on steam for free as of late, so anyone and their mother will be doing it. And I really appreciate the disinterested responses. Also, I haven't found any good ones worth my time, because I cannot find them, because they are being buried by shovelware.

Look them up? Go to 'Top Sellers'?

[otto-san]

the problem is that steam's 'quality control' is no longer controlling quality, and because the front page is flooded with this garbage, games that deserve the front page don't get it

not to mention many of these have been re-published with false information and aren't really 'new' at all

[Rockinboy2000]

not all games being ported are bad though some have somewhat stuffty controls or bugs, there still fun in the long run, some examples:

• Beam .NG drive (greenlit)
• Superpower 2 (released)
• Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today (holy stuff does it look good)
• Plague Inc. Evolved (interesting)

and the list goes on...

(but then again, there's stuff like this )

freddi fish is probably on there for ability to purchase for family accounts because steam isn't just hardcore gamer central but more family oriented which makes sense, also people have different interests, and if your trying to find something besides shovelware, look at top sellers.

i honestly agree that steam has to fix its quality control, but that helped get some good games on the steam store

[AtlasBlue]

• Beam .NG drive (greenlit)

BeamNG.drive got Greenlit? So THAT'S why the game's been so quiet lately!

OT: Yeah, I agree that the amount of shovelware on Steam has been increasing. I think it's mostly from Steam Greenlight. Things like this are common on there, you know:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=252588829
This literally looks like it was created in the early 2000's.

[otto-san]

I think it's mostly from Steam Greenlight.

nah, they aren't from greenlight

they're things that were submitted to valve and accepted