Steam shop reached a new ridiculous limit

[pheno]

Sort by the most expensive games and what will you find?:

Thousands of cheap 50 cent games, which 99% sold on keys sites, only for people who need a bigger internet ego

Congratulations!

Edit:
I just wonder how Gabe Newell and his family will feel in a few years when they're just famous for selling/supporting trash and may have ruined the qualiative gaming forever.

[Aachen]

Care to fill in the blanks for me? Hyperbole accepted for sake of argument, how would this one specific store selling exclusively poor-quality products destroy the entire industry forever?

[sumolagann]

It is a little annoying, you need to search out quality yourself, find curators, or word of mouth. Sifting through a lot of garbage sucks. 50 cent games aren't necessarily bad though, plenty of cheap games have been very very good, all of the asset flips are a pain though.

edit: I recommend that interactive recommender lab test thing, works decently for finding games.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Bro imagine getting angry at cheap games and making a rant on it.
"Gaben Y U No charging me hundreds for this game, Ree I am big sad and angry for not having to pay more then I expected, imagine if they were more expensive yet CHEAPLY MADE, Ree! Ree!"

[Aachen]

Escrito originalmente por Shizune:

Bro imagine getting angry at cheap games and making a rant on it.
"Gaben Y U No charging me hundreds for this game, Ree I am big sad and angry for not having to pay more then I expected, imagine if they were more expensive yet CHEAPLY MADE, Ree! Ree!"

I think they don’t want anyone to be allowed to make their choice in products for themselves, i. e., it’s a demand for mass-removal.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Escrito originalmente por ☠:

Steam shop reached a new ridiculous limit

Sort by the most expensive games and what will you find?:

Thousands of cheap 50 cent games, which 99% sold on keys sites, only for people who need a bigger internet ego

Congratulations! :DSTpoop:

Edit:
I just wonder how Gabe Newell and his family will feel in a few years when they're just famous for selling/supporting trash and may have ruined the qualiative gaming forever.

Valve doesn't set the prices.

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por Aachen:

Escrito originalmente por Shizune:

Bro imagine getting angry at cheap games and making a rant on it.
"Gaben Y U No charging me hundreds for this game, Ree I am big sad and angry for not having to pay more then I expected, imagine if they were more expensive yet CHEAPLY MADE, Ree! Ree!"

I think they don’t want anyone to be allowed to make their choice in products for themselves, i. e., it’s a demand for mass-removal.

To be fair there are tons of games on Steam that literally no one is buying. So what, you ask? Well, they make finding the decent stuff harder and more time consuming.

[BlackBloodGhost]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

Escrito originalmente por Aachen:

I think they don’t want anyone to be allowed to make their choice in products for themselves, i. e., it’s a demand for mass-removal.

To be fair there are tons of games on Steam that literally no one is buying. So what, you ask? Well, they make finding the decent stuff harder and more time consuming.

I understand the reasoning and thought behind this. I wouldn't say outright remove the games however. The more games available for customers to choose from the better.

However, with that said a couple of things I'd say need fairly immediate fixing:

- Discovery Queue.. it's almost always completely irrelevant to me and shows me things I'm not interested in.

- Better game filtering. Often you can set a tag you might be interested in - that's fine - but then it'll include games that are not even related to the main genre that you're looking for, just because some game has it as a tag because one level has it for example.

- Better price filtering, it's all well and cool being able to set a maximum price. But a minimum price would also be useful to set. That'd quickly help you filter out games.

- Better game rating filters - self explanatory.

Even if they fixed only these things, it'd make finding games to buy a lot quicker.

Although the "because you love" filters work well. Pirates are always at the top of my list... couldn't possibly say why that may be

[The Presence]

Then don't buy them. Who cares?

[Pierce Dalton]

Escrito originalmente por BlackBloodRum:

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

To be fair there are tons of games on Steam that literally no one is buying. So what, you ask? Well, they make finding the decent stuff harder and more time consuming.

I understand the reasoning and thought behind this. I wouldn't say outright remove the games however. The more games available for customers to choose from the better.

However, with that said a couple of things I'd say need fairly immediate fixing:

- Discovery Queue.. it's almost always completely irrelevant to me and shows me things I'm not interested in.

- Better game filtering. Often you can set a tag you might be interested in - that's fine - but then it'll include games that are not even related to the main genre that you're looking for, just because some game has it as a tag because one level has it for example.

- Better price filtering, it's all well and cool being able to set a maximum price. But a minimum price would also be useful to set. That'd quickly help you filter out games.

- Better game rating filters - self explanatory.

Even if they fixed only these things, it'd make finding games to buy a lot quicker.

Although the "because you love" filters work well. Pirates are always at the top of my list... couldn't possibly say why that may be :steamlaughcry:

I'd say the first step to fix this mess is removing user generated tags.

Also, I don't know about others but sometimes I like to simply set a price limit and browse the store freely, no filters or anything. And then you have to go through a sea of low quality games until you find something that looks decent.

[BlackBloodGhost]

Escrito originalmente por Pierce Dalton:

I'd say the first step to fix this mess is removing user generated tags.

Also, I don't know about others but sometimes I like to simply set a price limit and browse the store freely, no filters or anything. And then you have to go through a sea of low quality games until you find something that looks decent.

Yeah, the user generated tags thing can both work really well and also work really poorly. It'd be nice to be able to filter by "developer set tags" or such.

As for the just browsing... I stopped trying to do that a long time ago.. too much noise. Although I do try to keep an open mind for games and don't usually limit myself to particular genres.

[davidb11]

How did the OP mess up how sorting by expensive first would work?
I'm so confused.

[Segert]

What is OPs point? What is his deal? What does it matter that there are loads of 50 cent games.

Altough i do agree. Maybe steam should classify games better. Like you want to see only games from big studios or big serious games. that should be an option. Apart from that. Who cares?

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

You clearly sorted it the wrong way if you get the 50 cents games first.

[InnerPhoenix]

ya steams gone to ♥♥♥♥, its pathetic how many trash asset games they allow these days, i barely do ques anymore 99% is just trash games.

[Chika Ogiue]

In a way he's not wrong. Sorting by most expensive first (depending on region) can show you a bunch of games priced at upto 20 USD in the US which are being priced at upto 2,000,000 USD in other regions. And while Valve may not set prices anymore for third party games, they need to return to the time when they DID step in to ensure reasonable pricing.