How to block Unity games from appearing on your Steam store?

[⛧Ð🜨ꭥ𒐈$∃∄ᚱ⛤]

99.9% of games made with unity are trash. I'd like to just block them from showing up in my store entirely. Is it possible?

There's so much customization, I don't see why I can block anime and porn, but I can't block Unity.

[Mad Scientist]

So what's the actual issue here? There's loads of bad games on numerous engines, what makes unity so special in this case? As it seems as you have a specific axe to grind with unity.

You can do the most basic research to avoid purchasing a unity game if you want. Plenty of awful games that aren't unity as well, nor in the other filters you have.

[no154370]

do OP even realize that Pokemon GO uses Unity Engine at all.

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Is Oxygen Not Included trash? Is Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster trash? Unity is an engine, nothing more.

[davidb11]

Yep. Complaining about Unity engine makes no sense here.
At all.

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Trash can be made using any engine. Might as well throw Unreal under the bus since it is a low barrier to entry with a free tier too.

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引用自 no154370：

引用自 Porkchap：

Still doesn't change the fact that the steam store is flooded with bad unity titles, and that because of that, blocking Unity from appearing in the store would then allow more titles with effort put in to them to be seen.

I didn't blame Unity for anything. I just stated that fact. I don't know what you're on about. Might want to work on your reading comprehension.

what you don't even know is this

1) you are accusing Steam of having nearly every single game on their Steam Platform using Unity.

this is 10000000% complete false especially since you failed to backup your claims with concrete evidence at all.

2) you have bad experience with Unity Web Player for years on your web browser games.

do you even know that Unity Web Player is no longer supported for web browser games at all.

i can easily tell you got bad experience with Unity Web Player.

but, games that uses Unity Engine isn't using Unity Web Player at all.

so kindly don't blame this product onto a newer product when both products are vastly different from one another.

1. Copy the text where I made that accusation, and paste it.. Because I didn't, and you wont be able to. I don't need to make this accusation, because Valve itself recognizes the problem and it's why they do sweeps where they delete asset flips. Asset flipping is a problem and it IS making it hard to browse for decent games. If Valve added a function to the advanced search that allowed us to search game by engine, it'd be a simple way to bypass that issue and make shopping/browsing easier.

2. No idea what you're talking about.. Web browser games? I don't play web browser games.

What product am I blaming for what exactly? I didn't blame anyone or anything for anything at all.. The only problem I have is people flooding the store with Unity asset flips to try and scrape some lazy earnings... If you're another one of those people with bad reading comprehension that thinks I'm saying Unity *can't* make a decent game, just stop, because you're way off..

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Anyway. Nice to see this bumped. Valve's aware of the issue, they just seem to be having a problem coming up with a solution that serves everyone. I still think a good solution is to require people to list what engine their game was made with, so that people can run advanced searches by engine as a category. Not only would it be nice to be able to do in general, but until they come up with a better way to screen "products," we can just look past Unity when we're getting sick and tired of scrolling past junk listings when looking for a new game to kill the boredom with.

[davidb11]

THe bottom line here is you attacked every game made with unity, which made no sense to do so.

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引用自 Mr. Gentlebot：

So what's the actual issue here? There's loads of bad games on numerous engines, what makes unity so special in this case? As it seems as you have a specific axe to grind with unity.

You can do the most basic research to avoid purchasing a unity game if you want. Plenty of awful games that aren't unity as well, nor in the other filters you have.

Unity asset store has a problem with people tossing together random codes, flipping junk, and then listing it, hoping to scrape some lazy profit from people looking to purchase games for reasons other than playing, like gem farming, or stuffing in to bundles for filler so they can turn profit, etc. It's making it hard to find good titles on the store - not to mention, a lot of new devs are hitting the scene right now and dropping their Unity creations on Steam store.. I've been gaming for over 25 years, so I'm not interested in those types of games.

I'm not the only one who'd like to have the ability to filter them out.. Not to mention, it makes way to discover games that use unique or rare engines as well. Like Brigand Oaxaca and its use of DarkBasid Pro, or Arthurian Legends and its use of 001. Two games I'm looking at purchasing.

[⛧Ð🜨ꭥ𒐈$∃∄ᚱ⛤]

引用自 davidb11：

THe bottom line here is you attacked every game made with unity, which made no sense to do so.

What is it with people under 24's reading comprehension these days?

[davidb11]

First I'm 39.
Second, if that wasn't what you were saying, you sure made it seem like you were.
With the title alone.
Let alone the rest of your complaints.

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引用自 Porkchap：

引用自 Mr. Gentlebot：

So what's the actual issue here? There's loads of bad games on numerous engines, what makes unity so special in this case? As it seems as you have a specific axe to grind with unity.

You can do the most basic research to avoid purchasing a unity game if you want. Plenty of awful games that aren't unity as well, nor in the other filters you have.

Unity asset store has a problem with people tossing together random codes, flipping junk, and then listing it, hoping to scrape some lazy profit from people looking to purchase games for reasons other than playing, like gem farming, or stuffing in to bundles for filler so they can turn profit, etc. It's making it hard to find good titles on the store - not to mention, a lot of new devs are hitting the scene right now and dropping their Unity creations on Steam store.. I've been gaming for over 25 years, so I'm not interested in those types of games.

I'm not the only one who'd like to have the ability to filter them out.. Not to mention, it makes way to discover games that use unique or rare engines as well. Like Brigand Oaxaca and its use of DarkBasid Pro, or Arthurian Legends and its use of 001. Two games I'm looking at purchasing.

Some good games are written in Unity too that aren't "asset flips" as you call them. Unity is just an engine, and allows developing entire games using .NET languages.

[Mad Scientist]

引用自 Porkchap：

Unity asset store has a problem with people tossing together random codes, flipping junk, and then listing it, hoping to scrape some lazy profit from people looking to purchase games for reasons other than playing

This isn't unique to only unity, so you're barking up the wrong tree there. You should generally be researching before you buy.

There's knockoff games all over the place, some asset flips, and generally poor games in a fairly good quantity. Other than filters, you should be again; researching before buying. Since this is not unique to Unity, we'd then have to have all games show their game engine, because one individual believes that theres 'too many' of such games from any one game engine.

Basically, the engine doesn't matter, it matters that people stop buying shoveled out garbage, stolen/asset flipped games or games containing a fair or large amount of unoriginal work.

Research before you buy, you don't need to know the game engine you need to determine if the game is complete original content.

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 Porkchap：

引用自 Mr. Gentlebot：

So what's the actual issue here? There's loads of bad games on numerous engines, what makes unity so special in this case? As it seems as you have a specific axe to grind with unity.

You can do the most basic research to avoid purchasing a unity game if you want. Plenty of awful games that aren't unity as well, nor in the other filters you have.

Unity asset store has a problem with people tossing together random codes, flipping junk, and then listing it, hoping to scrape some lazy profit from people looking to purchase games for reasons other than playing, like gem farming, or stuffing in to bundles for filler so they can turn profit, etc. It's making it hard to find good titles on the store - not to mention, a lot of new devs are hitting the scene right now and dropping their Unity creations on Steam store.. I've been gaming for over 25 years, so I'm not interested in those types of games.

I'm not the only one who'd like to have the ability to filter them out.. Not to mention, it makes way to discover games that use unique or rare engines as well. Like Brigand Oaxaca and its use of DarkBasid Pro, or Arthurian Legends and its use of 001. Two games I'm looking at purchasing.

You're strawmanning.

We KNOW there's problems with easy to use engines because as I said you attract a larger volume of people more lacking in experience. That's known.

I knew about this when the ZX81 came out in the 1980s, and then the ZX Spectrum.

These were cheap computers that REALLY pushed them into the mainstream creating bedroom coders galore. So you got the same sort of charalatns trying to make a quick buck too.

It does NOT mean the computer is to blame any more than Unity is to blame.

Because good games appear with those engines, so blocking all content means you'll block a lot of the games that you already play or are interested in.

That's the problem.

[ZanyScum]

I don't get you guys.

He does not want to see games with Unity engine IF IT IS POSSIBLE.

You know, free will, free country, etc.?
No idea where YOU live, but here in Germany you can decide on such things.
Perhaps you guys live in China or Russia and are used to be told from the state what is good for you?

If he wants it, he wants it.

I can even understand him.
Games with good handling in Unity are the exception, not what is normal.
Slow games with bad handling are the exception in UnrealEngine and CryoEngine.
There are many other engines out there, some bad, some good, but who ever tries to tell me that Unity games are normally fast and fluent will be called a liar by me.


So he asked a question and you guys activated mob mode?
Then you even lied about what he asked so it sounds really bad!
If I'd write what I think about you guys I'd be banned forever.

You should READ a post before you write what you think is an answer.
New idea, I know. But try it! It helps!

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 ZanyScum：

I don't get you guys.

He does not want to see games with Unity engine IF IT IS POSSIBLE.

You know, free will, free country, etc.?
No idea where YOU live, but here in Germany you can decide on such things.
Perhaps you guys live in China or Russia and are used to be told from the state what is good for you?

If he wants it, he wants it.

I can even understand him.
Games with good handling in Unity are the exception, not what is normal.
Slow games with bad handling are the exception in UnrealEngine and CryoEngine.
There are many other engines out there, some bad, some good, but who ever tries to tell me that Unity games are normally fast and fluent will be called a liar by me.


So he asked a question and you guys activated mob mode?
Then you even lied about what he asked so it sounds really bad!
If I'd write what I think about you guys I'd be banned forever.

You should READ a post before you write what you think is an answer.
New idea, I know. But try it! It helps!

No we pointed out how it would be unreasonable or unworkable request, because it isn't set up like that.

As so many games use it it would hide most of the store and the search terms aren't going to allow that sort of blanket restriction.

On top of that it's a useless term. Because it's something that has such little use. HE might think it's of use, but it's far easier for him to research that OUTSIDE of steam.

All he has to do is go to google and search.

That's the point. We can't change reality.