Why is Steam full of rubbish games at the top

[arcanefrostf]

I mean why the F*** is a card game and a porn simulator at the top of the list?

What happened to the AAA games at the top with extensive storylines and hundreds of hours of gameplay? where are the proper real games. Anyone remember the days when TF2, GTA V, CIV IV, HL2 etc... were at the top, and any other game that really emotionally involved the gamer. Now its laser shooting rts card game simulator bull****.

I mean outlast 2 was just released, but I didn't see any single front page review of it in steam.
These developers put SO MUCH hard work into their games and dont get a mention, while a card game that takes 20 minutes to make does...

[Satoru]

Stuff you don't like != rubbish

[cinedine]

Outlast 2 was released two weeks ago. No game will hold this long in the "New Releases" list. It's at 18 on the global top sellers list though.

The front page content is largely determined by your preferences. Things you and your firends have played lately and recommendations of curators you're following. I don't see any card game on my store page right now.

[Xaelath]

The Feature/Recommended were mostly New game or Game that your friend play/recommend, it also includes your Preferences and Currator.

Right below it is Special Offer

After that you'll see a tab that shows New released which will shows all newest game without exception unless you filtered it, Upcoming games, Top sellers and Specials.

Recently i bought BB and took interested in FG, they did shows some of FG games in screen.
Also the only currator i followed is PC Gamer and it also shows there.
Last thing is "Tag", what games you're currently following or played.

[Kargor]

They changed something with the frontpage; I just can't quite say what. The entire top section seems to be filled with old games that have been out "forever", while none of the newly released games that recently went on my wishlist were shown on the Steam frontpage at all.

I have no idea what they are trying to do, but the frontpage has been completely useless for me for a while now.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Featured & Recommended: currently entirely filled with games recommended by my friends or based on the games I've played, so I haven't posted them, but I can list them too if you want

Special Offers:
* Tom Clancy's The Division, free weekend
* Star Wars "May the 4th Be With You"
* Shadowrun Hong Kong
* Civilization VI - try the free demo
* Rocket League, free weekend
* Pulsar: Lost Colony
* Lego Star Wars: the Complete Saga
* Warhammer the End Times Vermintide
* Star Wars: Empire at War gold pack

Trending among friends: obviously dependent on what my friends are playing/buying

Your Discovery Queue: i'll just ignore this because lol

Steam Curators: these aren't even games, and I'm not even interested in the suggested curators

Recently Updated: depends on the games in my library and wishlist

Popular New Releases:
* World to the West
* Prey
* Mass Exodus
* Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade Expansion Pack
* Dawn of Andromeda
* SPACEPLAN
* The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd
* NieR:Automata - 3C3C1D119440927 (it's a DLC; I have no idea why the name is like that but I think some characters have similarly weird number-like names)
* Heartlands
* Little Nightmares

Top Sellers:
* Prey
* PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
* Rocket League
* Sid Meier's Civilization VI
* Star Wars Complete Collection
* PULSAR: Lost Colony
* NieR:Automata
* Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
* Lego Star Wars - the Complete Saga
* Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator

Upcoming:
* Run Away
* Metin2
* Nevertales: Smoke and Mirrors Collector's Edition
* Noes Goes
* planetarian HD
* Blockle
* Happy Empire - a Bouquet for the Princess
* B-12: Brantisky Mk. 12
* 1914: Prelude to Chaos
* Rat Simulator

Specials:
* Rocket League
* Sid Meier's Civilization VI
* PULSAR: Lost Colony
* LEGO Star Wars - The Complete Saga
* Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
* three more Star Wars games, then Lego Star Wars III - The Clone Wars, then another Star Wars game

Under $10
* Undertale
* Dead Island Definitive Edition
* Golf with your friends
* Domina
* Shellshock Live
* Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
* Dead Island Riptide Definitive Edition
* Camtasia

Updates and Offers
* Rocket League free weekend
* Star Wars May the 4th Be With You
* Tom Clancy's The Division free weekend
* Prey - now available

OP, what are you seeing?

[gman5]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Stuff you don't like != rubbish

is there any good games i have played better games on my ps1 whats going on im still playing old games bought 4k comp and there is nothing decent to play are we on hold while the vr stuff is being produced

[Dark Luminary]

Originally posted by gman5:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Stuff you don't like != rubbish

is there any good games i have played better games on my ps1 whats going on im still playing old games bought 4k comp and there is nothing decent to play are we on hold while the vr stuff is being produced

Buddy you have literally 10 games on your account. Dont come here saying there is nothing good out there if you havent tried anything yet.

[Xaelath]

Originally posted by LST Fighter5810:

Originally posted by gman5:

is there any good games i have played better games on my ps1 whats going on im still playing old games bought 4k comp and there is nothing decent to play are we on hold while the vr stuff is being produced

Buddy you have literally 10 games on your account. Dont come here saying there is nothing good out there if you havent tried anything yet.

Even if someone had more than hundred even thousand of games i doubt the person even complete 50% of it...

[Satoru]

Originally posted by gman5:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Stuff you don't like != rubbish

is there any good games i have played better games on my ps1 whats going on im still playing old games bought 4k comp and there is nothing decent to play are we on hold while the vr stuff is being produced

If you have 'nothing decent to play' you either are blind or not looking at the market

[Tux]

Originally posted by arcanefrostf:

I mean why the F*** is a card game and a porn simulator at the top of the list?

What happened to the AAA games at the top with extensive storylines and hundreds of hours of gameplay? where are the proper real games. Anyone remember the days when TF2, GTA V, CIV IV, HL2 etc... were at the top, and any other game that really emotionally involved the gamer. Now its laser shooting rts card game simulator bull****.

I mean outlast 2 was just released, but I didn't see any single front page review of it in steam.
These developers put SO MUCH hard work into their games and dont get a mention, while a card game that takes 20 minutes to make does...

I say this in all seriousness.

If you are looking for AAA games you need to stay away from Steam

its
that
simple

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by gman5:

is there any good games i have played better games on my ps1 whats going on im still playing old games bought 4k comp and there is nothing decent to play are we on hold while the vr stuff is being produced

If you have 'nothing decent to play' you either are blind or not looking at the market

Or they are looking for hot games. You lnow the games multi million dollar marketing pushes tell them thsy should love without wquestion

As for why AAA games are few and far bvetween. They've always been. A studio will only put out so many in a year and the releases are usually timed and carefully spaced so they don't wind up cannibalising their sales.

The joke is. There really are plenty of good games.. Fun games. Not games that'd justify the ridiculous dosh you spent on a 4k rig., but then there aren't ever going tobe a lot of those games. because devs don't typically develop for the leading edge of the curve. they more aim closer to the trailing edge to ensure greater market size.

[Tux]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by Satoru:

If you have 'nothing decent to play' you either are blind or not looking at the market

Or they are looking for hot games. You lnow the games multi million dollar marketing pushes tell them thsy should love without wquestion

As for why AAA games are few and far bvetween. They've always been. A studio will only put out so many in a year and the releases are usually timed and carefully spaced so they don't wind up cannibalising their sales.

The joke is. There really are plenty of good games.. Fun games. Not games that'd justify the ridiculous dosh you spent on a 4k rig., but then there aren't ever going tobe a lot of those games. because devs don't typically develop for the leading edge of the curve. they more aim closer to the trailing edge to ensure greater market size.

given that there is about 6 AAA titles released a year and all of them have a long hype wagon such that all gamers know about them and can easily find out where to get them I dont know why anyone would come to Steam looking for AAA titles.

When I was a AAA title fanboy I knew what I wanted and I knew where to go find out where I could get it, no headscratching on what the AAA titles where

[Jolly]

Complain to the console peasant overlords about their exclusives. Some of the recent and/or upcoming big games are exclusive to one peasant platform or another.

Other than that, if you already own a lot of AAA games then there's not a whole lot Steam can show you when there are no new AAA games around.

I do find a lot of it silly. The hentai/jrpg pseudo games for dorks that'll never get laid aren't something I'm interested in buying - ever. I'm also not likely to buy games from the 90's that I already played back on my 3rd PC 20 years ago. I've viewed so many queues that it's gotten to be comical the nonsense they stick in there for me now.

[76561198001062896]

Originally posted by Jolly:

Complain to the console peasant overlords about their exclusives. Some of the recent and/or upcoming big games are exclusive to one peasant platform or another.

Other than that, if you already own a lot of AAA games then there's not a whole lot Steam can show you when there are no new AAA games around.

I do find a lot of it silly. The hentai/jrpg pseudo games for dorks that'll never get laid aren't something I'm interested in buying - ever. I'm also not likely to buy games from the 90's that I already played back on my 3rd PC 20 years ago. I've viewed so many queues that it's gotten to be comical the nonsense they stick in there for me now.

There is no such thing as hentai games on steam

There are Visual Novels

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

I avoid looking at my queues for that very reason. I've got to look at them to get the cards during the sale so I might as well look at them when they are on sale.

I'm fairly sure a lot of gamers are like me who don't hardcore discriminate between AAA and Indies. Thinking of the games I've enjoyed and played the most - Talisman, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Team Fortress 2, L.A. Noire, Skyrim, Baldur's Gate, Castle Crashers -there's a mixture of indies and AAA's.

Where I do discriminate is the lower end of the market. I'm not going to spend even £3.00 - £5.00 on a game that's not as good as most freeware. Sometimes though even the lower end games can be fun. As a Lovecraft (he's an early twentieth century gothic horror writer - this isn't some porn imprint. Not that I know of anyway) reader and "Call of Cthulu" FRPG player "Great Cthulu saves the World" intrigued me and was actually great fun to play.

I'm also influenced by reviews. It's a heavy warning sign if one in three or even one in five of the people who bought a game didn't like it.

It's the main problem I've argued with the quantity of scum ware/ shovel ware, fake games coming onto Steam. It's hard to find the good ones.

S.x.