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If you have to try to use an argument to convince people of your agenda then I would strongly suggest that you actually have a point while doing so.
That said though, Steam/Valve doesn't seem to give a damn at all so whether or what system is or isn't sidestepped is completely irrelevent at that point.
Aside from that, not sure what OP means specifically either and I'm not sure I would call the flood of stuff that gets on Steam "shovelware" but just because I never bothered to use the word or look up the definition because usually it's just a buzz word for games people don't like. Unfortunately, generally speaking I have to agree with OP. If it was just a few, who cares, but this stuff has gotten worse almost exponentially.
To clarify a bit, I'm sitting here in Germany and technically I shouldn't be seeing any of the prawn games. While it is bs to flatout play this charade, I still shouldn't see them at all technically. But I keep seeing them. Though it's all such low quality garbage I wouldn't even want to see it. In the past, before the blanket quasi ban I found literally one single game that had undeniable quality. Not that I liked it xD but it was technically and visually fine and also tasteful, as far as I could judge from the single trailer/video. I could say much more on that regard but I doubt elaborating is gonna change anything.
But that's just prawn games. Overall Valve is flooded with literal asset flips and other low effort cash grabs, including but not limited to games people have AI churn out for them. Again, literally, not hyperbole. Granted the full AI games I've seen were like 2 or 3, but MANY more games have used AI to some extent. Most popular and glaringly obvious are AI voices. And hardly any of them use the "This is how the developer describes the use of AI in their game" section for it. They just don't. And the dimbulb achievement runner games are/were just the tip of the iceberg.
And Steam knows their platform is being flooded, their hands off approach is just not working too well anymore. One of the main reasons why we keep seeing these "sales events" all the time now. The bigger of these events lose most of their meaning as Steam tends to just add games based on user suggested tags.
Just for fun, check my profile. Nobody can tell me I wasn't doing my leg work. With every event I go through literally EVERY game in them. The only ones where I don't do that is when it becomes apparent that the "all games " list at the bottom is almost endless And that's because tags are the main reason the games are included automatically. With zero human oversight.This gets obvious when you come across games that are literally done for, games where even the devs have posted a so long and thanks for all the fish post years ago.
But as I said, Valve's hands off approach is working less and less well. I used to go through ALL new and upcoming releases, I actually got through all of them at times, I used to add half or even ull activity pages of games to my wishlist. Now it's 2 or 3 lines at most. AND I only do so when I have some random urge for it. Now it feels like I'm torturing myself for no reason when it used to be genuine fun to explore and find cool games. That joy is gone completely because there is just so much...let's say sub par products you have to sift through.
One of the wildest things is that people to this day claim Greenlight was/is the real problem. None of these people ever actually went through Steam on their own. I used to blame them for their ignorance, meanwhile though? Ooooof...and I could go on. Like the games "devs" put on Steam that would probably not even pass for game jam games but are sold for 20 and up, the sky is the limit. Games that are apparently some form of money laundering. Sometimes something happend and stuff got removed, but those are exceptions.
You know who I feel really bad for? The people working on SteamLabs stuff. I've known one of them to have a genuine interest in it, especially helping get indies more exposure...but all of that has turned into the usual Steam machinations with a face lift.
tl;dr: as someone who used to do the leg work of going through all games on steam, yes ALL, I can safely say Steam has been getting worse for years, and it's getting abysmally worse for everyone outside AAA or high profile indies. Nobody is staying up all night to get lucky. While I don't think the industry is anywhere near another "crash", gaming is anywhere but healthy. And that's just lpain game-wise. It gets worse with Capital G Gamers, "politics" and whatnot.
Even the discussions here in the main section used to be better. If nothing else, it used to be last resort of what felt to be sane people (and mods) on Steam. Not getting that feeling anymore. Just looking around every once in a while and...well, considering options.
There's absolutely no hope left in me on here for various reasons. But even I can't rule out the possibility of actually getting through to someone at some point...if my hopes were higher I'd post here much more often...
Just talking filters, filters are a non-solution because they filter out more than just the most explicit stuff. Ironically wouldn't even be sure if that was an effective parental control measure seeing how clear stuff is subverting Steam's rules with surface level coverups and the like. And there's plenty of garbage outside of prawn content.
Last i checked..neither of those things violated Steam's rules.
English is not anymore the first and bigged market in the game industry since a long time ago , even in steam i guess (check the survey and language)
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
But true we need a better and trusted source than this survey for that so if you know one, your're welcome
If there is not good english in game or no translate at all, there is may be one solution that all other countries have done :
learn another language
But if the game is using the unity engine , there is a nice tool that can help you if the game does not have english
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/4349988612573450321/?ctp=15#c4361250750312598215
I hope it will help you if your game does not have english and run with the unity game engine
The store is basically unuseable for casual browsing if you have any taste whatsoever in games, unless you have the time/luck to find the right curator for your tastes.
it's more of a problem for Valve than for me in the long run. The previous crash happened because of shovelware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
You have to actually read the details. It was caused by multiple systems all with their own proprietary games combined with limited retail space, too much space devoted to the consoles etc. The PHYSICAL restrictions of selling the items let to scenarios where you had the shelves filled with junk people weren't buying thus blocking the good games.
This isn't a problem with online games as the store can't be filled.
I'm not surprised if he actually did it. Some ppl are like maggots, they're attracted to trash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYAYqxocCXY
People keep forgetting the detauils. Also the simple fact that it;s known more accurately as the "NOrth American Video Game Crash".
Because in North America you had I think like 5 different consoles in the market at the same time. Not counting the Home computer systems. Each of these with their own proprietary hardware/peripherals, and games, . Games which were not very distinct from each other .
Also they forget that it was a distribution crash. Basically the damand was still there. It never dropped or wavered. What happened was the retailers cashed out. It's hard to iumagine, in this postnes world, that video games weren't seen as an industry initially. They were seen as just the latest fad. And retailers treated them as such. So basically once things started to level out for a little bit retailers took that as their cue to cash out. Of course that leveling out was the precursor to another spike.
Heck even Nintendo had to backdoor their way onto american shelves via the toy aisle.. EVer wonder why the NES had so many oddball peripherals that ere barely supported.
The Light Gun,. The Power Pad, ROB, The Power Glove, The Advantage, the 4 score, and thats not counting all the third party stuff as well,.
That's why.
The OP's problem I suspect is justr that they aren;'t looking for "Good Games". They are looking for "Cheap Games". Or "New Cheap Games". Trying to find hidden gems and all. If you're actually looking for Good Games, they are easy to find.
You can also set Steam to only show games in a certain language.