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iippo: Valve should have -some kind of- quality control, but apparently not. "Vote this crap out of steam" -button would be nice as well.
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paul1290: Given how a large portion of the "Steam community" behaves, I think if there was a "vote this crap out of Steam" button they'd all be voting out each others games starting from the "most popular of the other guy's games" first.
Ha ha - the only thing left in Valve's catalog would be Free 2 Plays. XD
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amok: what is this thread about?
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carnival73: Drugged-up butt sex.
If you insist, I'l get the lube.
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carnival73: Drugged-up butt sex.
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amok: If you insist, I'l get the lube.
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Five smart-assed comments and I figured that was gonna be the one to stand out the most.

Rorschach! Fuh-Shaww!
Post edited March 11, 2014 by carnival73
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jamyskis: I hardly think this applies here. Certainly there are games out there that cater to a quite niche audience, and for those you can use the above saying, but in the game of Steam Greenlight, many of the games are simply objectively bad.
To be very honest i don't see THAT many bad games when browsing through greenlight. Of course there are a few bad games asking for votes on Greenlight. But what else could you expect? Anyone can put a game on Greenlight (expect for porn games, since Valve doesn't like those). Just pay the U$100 fee and you're set (i don't know how much it costs now, but it used to be U$100). Getting past Greenlight, however, requires more than that.

"Objectively bad"? That's arguable. Quality in games is mostly subjective.

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jamyskis: Steam has essentially become the new Wii - a pit of useless shovelware that noone wants to play on an otherwise perfectly capable system.
I disagree. Maybe i live in a parallel universe or something, but i can't see that many bad games on Steam coming from Greenlight. In my experience i feel it's exactly the opposite most of the time. Most of the Greenlit games i see are either pretty good or cater to a specific niche that i'm not a part of. But there are many games that didn't go through Greenlight that make me wonder how they got on Steam in the first place (like Revelations 2012, Garry's Incident, War Z).

I think Greenlight is a pretty good model, actually. At least it makes the proccess more transparent. How many times have we seen good games getting rejected on Steam and GOG (Mutant Mudds and Unepic come to mind)? For developers, Greenlight is extremely important, as we all know. For these guys, getting on Steam sets the difference between a failure and a success. And it lets me vote vor the games i want to see on Steam.
Post edited March 11, 2014 by Neobr10
I have about 150 votes done there by now, over all.

I usually machinally vote for games I own from bundles, for potential Steam keys to come in my account, as I do not like to keep installers on my Pc and external drive. "DRM Free" or not I like the most definitive version and "auto-updates" more, as my line is "always" up with no plans of keeping it down, or having a stock of games for any unplugged distant travel. Selfish, I know. Though, somehow it also support the devs engaged enough in their business to run bundles, even if I haven't played their games I purchased out of curiosity yet and so don't know if it is any good..

I also vote the games I do know being good to my eyes, by my experience of playing them and for wanting them on Steam for me or others to get them again.

And finally there are a few I vote for having potential, mostly obscure VN or RPG maker games looking interesting, again just for me.

I don't regret any vote I've done as they don't cost me anything, and my reasons to vote are very solid to my liking. Then I agree many, many games I browse there are not getting my vote for not catching my interest at all, surfing on the trend of vox, retro, zombies, too early project or just seemingly bad quality work trying by luck without a real prupose, and so on..
Post edited March 13, 2014 by koima57
I've mostly voted only Kickstarter games, most of the games in greenlight I consider to be shovelware.
I don't even remember which ones I voted for, but I think one of them was Rush Bros.