Of late I have been watching quite a few of Jim Sterlings Squirty play videos, in case you didn't know this is when he takes usually early access games and plays a little bit of the game, passing comment and basically showing the viewers what the games are all about.
The same basic premise seems to run through the majority of the videos
They are usually early access or some other pre release, they are usually on Steam and they are usually always utter utter rubbish.
The most recent one being this
http://ift.tt/1Euu9tO
Be aware that the game contains a scene with quite graphic violence against humans and animals which is shown in this video
So once I had watched this utter joke of a game I went to the games Steam page to find that this game is actually being sold for money.
So at what point did Steam turn in to the utter garbage dump for games, I mean the place where any talentless 'developer' can throw together a cobble of barely cognitive nonsense, usually using Unity and a mess of stock graphics textures and sounds, and then thrown it on to Steam and have the bold face cheek to charge real cash for it?
This also leads to a few other questions.
Does Valve actual monitor or for that matter care about the utter rubbish it is allowing on to it's D2D service?
Just how badly has allowing this non sense hurt Valve's reputation (especially since they seem to have lost interest in producing their own quality games)?
Does Valve actually have ANY plans to curb, curtail or otherwise control what seems to be a non stop round of utter garbage being thrown on to Steam?
and finally
How badly as a whole is this affecting the real talent, I mean the folks that have actually launched Early Access titles that are good, get supported and are clearly more than a quick grab for cash. The idea that their talent is being buried in the same region of Steam (Early Access / Greenlight) as the some of the utter mince that is being released by the dozen per day. It must really hurt?
Surely this has to be hurting Steam's already pretty shaky credability?
The same basic premise seems to run through the majority of the videos
They are usually early access or some other pre release, they are usually on Steam and they are usually always utter utter rubbish.
The most recent one being this
http://ift.tt/1Euu9tO
Be aware that the game contains a scene with quite graphic violence against humans and animals which is shown in this video
So once I had watched this utter joke of a game I went to the games Steam page to find that this game is actually being sold for money.
So at what point did Steam turn in to the utter garbage dump for games, I mean the place where any talentless 'developer' can throw together a cobble of barely cognitive nonsense, usually using Unity and a mess of stock graphics textures and sounds, and then thrown it on to Steam and have the bold face cheek to charge real cash for it?
This also leads to a few other questions.
Does Valve actual monitor or for that matter care about the utter rubbish it is allowing on to it's D2D service?
Just how badly has allowing this non sense hurt Valve's reputation (especially since they seem to have lost interest in producing their own quality games)?
Does Valve actually have ANY plans to curb, curtail or otherwise control what seems to be a non stop round of utter garbage being thrown on to Steam?
and finally
How badly as a whole is this affecting the real talent, I mean the folks that have actually launched Early Access titles that are good, get supported and are clearly more than a quick grab for cash. The idea that their talent is being buried in the same region of Steam (Early Access / Greenlight) as the some of the utter mince that is being released by the dozen per day. It must really hurt?
Surely this has to be hurting Steam's already pretty shaky credability?
Steams Credability
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