Daniel Pacheco
Member
Hi NeoGaf,
I was not sure about create this post, but I think that many people have the same feeling that I have when I see what Steam is becoming.
Some years ago, publish a game on Steam was hard, there were a lot of filters that ensure that your product was good for their costumers. Later of that Steam Greenlight allow people to vote which games they wanted to see on their platform and that was something nice too. But later that Steam Greenlight becomes a joke and every single project passes the filter if only wait for a couple of months.
At this point in the time the situation was bad, a lot of products that even aren´t games started to be released on Steam. Community votes didn´t work for nothing and Steam was sinking among first bad project games, school project games, and Unity demos. That´s when Steam reacts and announced Steam Direct!!!
Steam Direct was like the salvation of Steam... They told everyone that now you must pay them to publish your project and that means that many "deveshits" will refuse to pay the tax because they know that their projects were trash.
But all of this dream actually was a nightmare. Steam announced that Steam Direct Tax only cost $100 and would be redeemable if the game reach the $100 of sales. So... everybody had $100 to put their poo into Steam.
So now, Steam is a place in which around 50 games are released per day. Is really difficult to find something good among so much bad games (the most of them are not games). This is bad for developers and for the costumers I think.
1- Developers have a lot of visibility problems and need a lot of marketing support to get some visibility into Steam (platform in which you can´t pay for ads)
2- As a costumer I feel like browsing into a piece of shit, Steam only offers to me painful titles and I feel like be into APP store.
This is excepcionally bad because there are appearing a lot of publisher who vomit thousands of $1 games per month. Since Steam Direct release these publishers published a couple of games per week... Even I suspect that games had been created by bots! The filter in Steam is nothing! I catch publishers releasing exactly the same game with the same trailer but only changing the name of the product! Is a shame and Steam let people like that destroy their platform and the platform of thousands of us.
Mate, how could you release hundreds of games that are in Early Access and cost less that $1? Why?
Why Steam let this kind of publishers release in their platform?
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/blendergames (this one relase even 5 games per week)
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Nekyau
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Dexion Games
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=nonPareil Institute
Do they even check any of these games?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/992820/Monster_Hentai/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/989310/NEUFO/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993470/Cosmonet_Space_Adventure/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993460/SAMURAI_IN_AFRICA/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/871640/Asteroid_RKD/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/989300/Happy_Claus_Christmas_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/986460/Monsters__Anomaly/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973860/CYPEST_Underground/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/978020/You_are_Never_Alone/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/903560/Pixel_Fishies/
What about these copy pastes from Unity engine?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/984140/DOKA_3_STO_SLOEV_KISHKOV/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/985040/NPCs/
And I have no words for these:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/690580/Evil_Spirits/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/984880/The_Pilgrimage_I/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973040/Kobold_Slayer/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/923530/RIP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/962400/Granny/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/967450/Special_Counter_Force_Attack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/971670/Blood_Day/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/923530/RIP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/949530/Time_Splatter/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/849280/John_Mambo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973560/_/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953120/The_Lost_Sergeant/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/986400/Helidefence/
So NeoGaf:
- How good is this policy for Steam? Why they did that?
- What Steam thinks about his costumers? Why they think that this situation is good for us?
- How much time Steam can hold this situation? They have more competence everyday, and platforms as Humble Bundle or GOG and many others take care about developers and costumers.
- THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: What could we do from here to try to change Steam Policy? There are any chance about Steam listen to their community?
I was not sure about create this post, but I think that many people have the same feeling that I have when I see what Steam is becoming.
Some years ago, publish a game on Steam was hard, there were a lot of filters that ensure that your product was good for their costumers. Later of that Steam Greenlight allow people to vote which games they wanted to see on their platform and that was something nice too. But later that Steam Greenlight becomes a joke and every single project passes the filter if only wait for a couple of months.
At this point in the time the situation was bad, a lot of products that even aren´t games started to be released on Steam. Community votes didn´t work for nothing and Steam was sinking among first bad project games, school project games, and Unity demos. That´s when Steam reacts and announced Steam Direct!!!
Steam Direct was like the salvation of Steam... They told everyone that now you must pay them to publish your project and that means that many "deveshits" will refuse to pay the tax because they know that their projects were trash.
But all of this dream actually was a nightmare. Steam announced that Steam Direct Tax only cost $100 and would be redeemable if the game reach the $100 of sales. So... everybody had $100 to put their poo into Steam.
So now, Steam is a place in which around 50 games are released per day. Is really difficult to find something good among so much bad games (the most of them are not games). This is bad for developers and for the costumers I think.
1- Developers have a lot of visibility problems and need a lot of marketing support to get some visibility into Steam (platform in which you can´t pay for ads)
2- As a costumer I feel like browsing into a piece of shit, Steam only offers to me painful titles and I feel like be into APP store.
This is excepcionally bad because there are appearing a lot of publisher who vomit thousands of $1 games per month. Since Steam Direct release these publishers published a couple of games per week... Even I suspect that games had been created by bots! The filter in Steam is nothing! I catch publishers releasing exactly the same game with the same trailer but only changing the name of the product! Is a shame and Steam let people like that destroy their platform and the platform of thousands of us.
Mate, how could you release hundreds of games that are in Early Access and cost less that $1? Why?
Why Steam let this kind of publishers release in their platform?
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/blendergames (this one relase even 5 games per week)
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Nekyau
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Dexion Games
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=nonPareil Institute
Do they even check any of these games?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/989310/NEUFO/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993470/Cosmonet_Space_Adventure/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993460/SAMURAI_IN_AFRICA/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/871640/Asteroid_RKD/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/989300/Happy_Claus_Christmas_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/986460/Monsters__Anomaly/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973860/CYPEST_Underground/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/978020/You_are_Never_Alone/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/903560/Pixel_Fishies/
What about these copy pastes from Unity engine?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/984140/DOKA_3_STO_SLOEV_KISHKOV/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/985040/NPCs/
And I have no words for these:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/690580/Evil_Spirits/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/984880/The_Pilgrimage_I/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973040/Kobold_Slayer/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/923530/RIP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/962400/Granny/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/967450/Special_Counter_Force_Attack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/971670/Blood_Day/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/923530/RIP/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/949530/Time_Splatter/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/849280/John_Mambo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973560/_/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/953120/The_Lost_Sergeant/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/986400/Helidefence/
So NeoGaf:
- How good is this policy for Steam? Why they did that?
- What Steam thinks about his costumers? Why they think that this situation is good for us?
- How much time Steam can hold this situation? They have more competence everyday, and platforms as Humble Bundle or GOG and many others take care about developers and costumers.
- THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: What could we do from here to try to change Steam Policy? There are any chance about Steam listen to their community?