When will these clones stop coming into the store?!

[Hanoket]

I have seen a LOT of clones of famous games like COD and Minecraft coming into the Store and all of them are either programmed really bad or are really P2W so when will people learn to stop making these crappy games!???

EDIT: what I meant by clone is a game that is almost identically the same as famous games only with a few changes here and there

[Acey]

引用自 Matthew Sobol's Daemon：

They'll stop coming when they stop being profitable.

/thread

Pretty much this.
If it sells, it's gonna stay.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Given that Valve just implemented a refund system, this might be a market-based mechanism for quality control.

[WhiteKnight77]

Until people stop buying the yearly issue of CoD and other games of similar ilk as well as Minecraft type games, developers and publishers will keep making them.

[kdodds]

引用自 Quint the Laser Beaver：

Given that Valve just implemented a refund system, this might be a market-based mechanism for quality control.

This. I keep bringing this up in the developers versus Steam refunds threads. The refund policy IS a means of quality control, of a sort. I don't think it will stop developers from putting a terrible game to market. But, it will prevent them, with (hopefully) little to no profit, from making a follow up title. Also agree with WhiteKnight, if there's a market, it will be filled, refilled, and overstuffed, until the market dries up. Look at the dozens of zombie themed games across genres and the extreme overabundance of survival/crafting games.

[supertrooper225]

引用自 Matthew Sobol's Daemon：

They'll stop coming when they stop being profitable.

/thread

This.

Doom still has clones coming out. Most games are clones, relatively few games are actually unique.

Actually, I have to change my answer. Clones will never stop coming to Steam...or any other platform.

[WereCatf]

The whole definition of a "clone" itself is a very subjective thing. Is Doom a clone of Wolfenstein 3D? Is Lego Worlds a clone of Minecraft? Where do you draw the line that defines when some game is a clone of another and when it's more of an evolution or a side-development of the genre?

[Hanoket]

引用自 WereCatf：

The whole definition of a "clone" itself is a very subjective thing. Is Doom a clone of Wolfenstein 3D? Is Lego Worlds a clone of Minecraft? Where do you draw the line that defines when some game is a clone of another and when it's more of an evolution or a side-development of the genre?

What I am talking about is those games that are near copies of popular games

[supertrooper225]

引用自 ViperWarriorz：

引用自 WereCatf：

The whole definition of a "clone" itself is a very subjective thing. Is Doom a clone of Wolfenstein 3D? Is Lego Worlds a clone of Minecraft? Where do you draw the line that defines when some game is a clone of another and when it's more of an evolution or a side-development of the genre?

What I am talking about is those games that are near copies of popular games

Doubtful. Diablo clones are still prevelant. Pillars of Eternity is a Baldurs Gate/Icewind Dale clone (a damn good one but still). Video games typically iterate from the last ridiculously successful game. Clones are big in games.

[supertrooper225]

引用自 Matthew Sobol's Daemon：

引用自 supertrooper225：

Doubtful. Diablo clones are still prevelant. Pillars of Eternity is a Baldurs Gate/Icewind Dale clone (a damn good one but still). Video games typically iterate from the last ridiculously successful game. Clones are big in games.

Aaah, but all the new kids don't know about games like Diablo or Doom, eh? They only notice all the Minecraft clones because Minecraft is the current thing.

Holy crap....you are right.

"Diablo-clone" is like a genre at this point lol. Don't know why people think this is a recent thing. Guess its the younger folks. Once something becomes more successful than the craft em ups someone will start cloning that too.

[Hanoket]

引用自 supertrooper225：

引用自 ViperWarriorz：

What I am talking about is those games that are near copies of popular games

Doubtful. Diablo clones are still prevelant. Pillars of Eternity is a Baldurs Gate/Icewind Dale clone (a damn good one but still). Video games typically iterate from the last ridiculously successful game. Clones are big in games.

I mean like they add and change a few things then change the name and then release it and that's what I mean by "clone"

[WereCatf]

引用自 ViperWarriorz：

I mean like they add and change a few things then change the name and then release it and that's what I mean by "clone"

Give some examples.

[wekateka]

By that logic, everything on Steam is a pong clone anyway...

I never really got the clone-bashing. If a clone is good, it will provide players with fun. Who cares if it's similliar to another game? Just means that other game did something right as well.

If it's a bad clone (way more likely) then seeing as everyone with a brain will do research and write it off as such (also in the reviews) you will probably not buy it. Other gamers might genuinly like it, so who are you to decide only the original should be on steam?

Stop bashing/complaining, start actually having fun in your life. Trust me, it's way better that way :)

[Fearless Airlines]

I only buy clone games.

Because I am a actually a clone.

[On Vacation]

Probably be helpful to provide some specific examples. From my standpoint, I don't see anything wrong with a game inspiring others. Diablo for example, as pointed out has had many clones, but it has inspired some great games such as Path of Exile and Torchlight. Magic the Gathering inspired Hex etc.

I don't see any issue with improving on a good/great concept, even if you are not the original creator of that concept. This is not the same as reproducing an exact replica though, but I've actually not seen that often.

[Marble]

There's nothing wrong with having more of a good thing. Unfortunately, most of these blatant knock-off games are NOT good.