Indie games suck?

[Illusion]

What a joke! Steam is filling with those! Time to clean up the database! I heard that orange man is gonna sign an executive order about this... Finally a good decision!

[Illusion]

Wolfmaron の投稿を引用：

gem indie games are hard to find cause it's inside a whole mountain of trash

💯 ✅

[Illusion]

Knee の投稿を引用：

Is it because of their lack of achievements?

Quality and quantity

[Illusion]

DavidWG の投稿を引用：

It sucks that everyone can put low effort software intothe store. It sucks that it's propaganda way too often. Indie games can be great if a good team works on on a vision they love. But today it's really more shovelware than anything else.

That was exactly my point ✅

[Brian9824]

Boomie の投稿を引用：

Well Valve opened the flood gates a while back, so their lack of quality control is on full display with some games that have been released on the platform. I really wish they had some standards.

Either way, you can ignore those games. Why do you feel the need to rant about it?

Nothing to do with Valve, consoles have a ton of indie trash, and have always had trash. Its just easier now for everyone as digital distribution makes it more affordable to get it out there as the upfront costs are lower.

[PaulKrawitz]

Pokémon was an indie game... until it made them billions.

Just because it's an indie game doesn't mean it's bad.

[Anonymous Helper]

PaulKrawitz の投稿を引用：

Pokémon was an indie game... until it made them billions.

Just because it's an indie game doesn't mean it's bad.

Minecraft was originally an Indie game made by single man... until he sold it to Microsoft for 2.5 Billion $. Funny thing is that single man alone was able to do more than current development team of around 600 people combined.

[wesnef]

DavidWG の投稿を引用：

It sucks that everyone can put low effort software intothe store.

Counterpoint - the easier access to distribution means that small projects can get out there that never would have had a chance before.

The drawback is finding them.

[Boomie]

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Boomie の投稿を引用：

Well Valve opened the flood gates a while back, so their lack of quality control is on full display with some games that have been released on the platform. I really wish they had some standards.

Either way, you can ignore those games. Why do you feel the need to rant about it?

Nothing to do with Valve, consoles have a ton of indie trash, and have always had trash. Its just easier now for everyone as digital distribution makes it more affordable to get it out there as the upfront costs are lower.

I’ve seen the storefronts for every console and Steam. Steam definitely has more barely-functioning garbage than other platforms.

[HereIsPlenty]

Gotta dig if you wanna find diamonds.

[Brian9824]

Boomie の投稿を引用：

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Nothing to do with Valve, consoles have a ton of indie trash, and have always had trash. Its just easier now for everyone as digital distribution makes it more affordable to get it out there as the upfront costs are lower.

I’ve seen the storefronts for every console and Steam. Steam definitely has more barely-functioning garbage than other platforms.

Probably, but that is the flip side to making it easier to reach your audience. 99% of the garbage you will never see unless you look for it.

[Boomie]

Brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Boomie の投稿を引用：

I’ve seen the storefronts for every console and Steam. Steam definitely has more barely-functioning garbage than other platforms.

Probably, but that is the flip side to making it easier to reach your audience. 99% of the garbage you will never see unless you look for it.

I don’t find that to be true but okay.

[Tito Shivan]

wesnef の投稿を引用：

Counterpoint - the easier access to distribution means that small projects can get out there that never would have had a chance before.

This has been a trend since the 80s.
Ever since VHS became a thing, allowing for media creation without the costs of 35mm film, the costs of producing media have become more and more available and the tools more and more accesible.

Video production, music, books... Software development was the next one in the line.

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Tito Shivan の投稿を引用：

wesnef の投稿を引用：

Counterpoint - the easier access to distribution means that small projects can get out there that never would have had a chance before.

This has been a trend since the 80s.
Ever since VHS became a thing, allowing for media creation without the costs of 35mm film, the costs of producing media have become more and more available and the tools more and more accesible.

Video production, music, books... Software development was the next one in the line.

As slow as floppies were they hold a place in my heart, loved coming across random (safe) software.

[Illusion]

Things like Banana (yes I'm calling that a THING because this is not a GAME!) shouldn't be allowed here! Let's not talk about numbers of idiots being scammed every day by this ****!
But of course Steam prefers banning people like me just spitting facts on game's forums

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Illusion の投稿を引用：

Things like Banana (yes I'm calling that a THING because this is not a GAME!) shouldn't be allowed here! Let's not talk about numbers of idiots being scammed every day by this ****!
But of course Steam prefers banning people like me just spitting facts on game's forums

You know you feel silly when you imply all indie games to be trash, but you play indie games. Also if your claim was true about getting banned then why were you able to post then, story not matching up to your claim.