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1) It makes it harder to pick out decent games on the page
2) Why raise awareness for a bad game
But that depends on the person. I don't know if he just spams or legitimately likes 764 games. I won't know unless I inspect what kind of games he curates.
I go agree that some curators spam a bit too much. To a point where you might as well curate eveything that comes out. That is not very helpful in my opinion
PCGamer isn't a "person". It's literally PCGamer, owned by Imagine Media.
There are a lot of community groups based on outside sources. Curator pages can include one or more individuals. It is not wrong in itself to be a part of a group like that. At the end of the day, you just have to follow who you trust. Although I admit that many curators devolved into spam machines because you can get more followers. And more followers=more review copies.
These days I find broken games with 6 big curator recommendations. Why? They often don't play the games. "Just raise awareness for them"
Sure, I can ignore them on my page. But, I cannot remain unaffected by their influence on Steam.
Consider this:
Comcast becomes a curator, or more realistically, EA buys PCGamer. Or, maybe Imagine Media and EA join forces and now PCGamer is under EA's corporate umbrella. I hope you can see how this would be bad for the Steam community. So, simply hitting "Ignore" isn't enough because they still wield heavy influence on what is supposed to be a community-driven platform. Keeping corporate influence out of the review process is the only way to maintain the integrity of the reviews. And giving corporations a platform (curator) to further their influence is an exceptionally bad idea.
FOr starters
There is a limit on the number of items a curator can curate I think it's like 1000. So many choose to prioritize highlighting games trhey like, over trash-talking games they don't.
You can also ignore a curator. There are literally hundreds of them on Steam..
Did you honestly just tried to colour "user"-reviews as integer?
And - surprise! - corporations with big money are already the opinion makers.
... boy, you must hate HumbleStore now.
Lets approach this in a different way. And I'll charge forward with my ISP examples:
Several cities in the US have listened to their citizen's complaints about their ISPs and created municipalities. These are, by definition, community driven (funded, whatever). People are sick of having their content controlled, throttled, and bottle-fed to them via high prices and limited choices. These ISPs are corporations. And Steam is much like a municipality. I know you know all this, but bear with me...
If I am forced to use a corporate ISP because I have no community funded internet, I'm subjected to whatever influence they wield. My content is molded, throttled, an influenced by the service provider.
I realize Steam is not Comcast (duh). However, by allowing corporations to infiltrate a user-driven community, it shifts influence away from the gamers. So, even though I can just hit ignore and move on with my life, PCGamer currently has over half a million subscribers and is the largest curator on Steam. My issue isn't with PCGamer, it's with Steam allowing them in here as a curator. I'm happy to see guys like Total Biscuit setting at the top, who's popularity was community-driven because it's organic. He's not representing stockholder's financial interests.
I say let the gamer mags and corporations advertise and influence on their own websites and keep Steam as it should be - a community that belongs to gamers, influenced by gamers. I can't imagine anyone on these boards disagreeing with my suggestion. I realize it's the "thing" to be contrarian on the internet. But, I hope people will will read this and really consider what an amazing thing Steam is, and what a travesty it would be to have corporations gain control.
And yet your solution is... to control content?
If people find they like the recommendations made by PCG (or any other commercial interest, including Total Biscuit), if they find Steam better for being able to have those recommendations show up in the store, then we are not improving Steam by taking that ability away from them.
The PC Gamer writers are just people who get paid to talk about games. Same as Biscuit Dude, they get paid because people like what they do. There's nothing wrong with that.
If you think writers for rags don't cater their reviews to serve their advertisers, you are delusional. You can't trust someone whose job is to write reviews. Because the corporation they work for has to keep the lights on. And they don't do that without sponsors. However, I will trust (or at least consider) the opinion of someone who has nothing to lose or gain by giving their honest opinion. This is what makes Steam so fantastic - other than the content delivery. And allowing corporate influence into the community dialogue diminishes the authenticity of the platform. And most people aren't even aware of how their opinions and ultimately their purchases are being influenced by corporate interests. If Steam blocked corporate influence from their reviews, the integrity of the community would remain intact. If Steam doesn't, it won't.
Reaching for insults in place of evidence doesn't seem like a great idea for someone giving advice on trust.
Its bad for a publisher to earn revenue from advertising but OK when your favourite youtuber does?
FYI, the PC gamer that gets sold in the US is an abridged version of the parent UK one that getsdistributed to the rest of the world - its an expensive glossy mag with less adverts and more content. (ie. it relies on its readers (aka a community) more than its advertisers)
This, coupled with your dislike of other American companies such as this "Comcast" would indicate your problems lie with American culture rather than anything else.
Didn't mean to come across insulting. And I said several times already that the "ignore" button isn't enough. The influence is still present whether users ignore it or not - it's existense on Steam carries corporate influence.
You have the last word. I'm not here to convince you, personally. You like them here. Fine. You're wrong, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion. My hope is that someone with some actual pull will read my post and consider its merit.
And Valve is a billion dollar *corporation*. They are not the nice guy next door. They are a business and have lots of syndication going on. You might have noticed the news articles of 'Rock, Paper, Shotgun', Kotaku, and ... PCGamer. They are in lieu with big publishers to get their games onto their platform.
Even if you ban them from Steam. Where do you think most people get their information from? Few curators actively seek out games and go through the store. There are no underdog success stories coming from the community. As soon as a game rises above, it will be picked up by media and popularity explodes.
Your whole arguement is "I don't like it". Not very convincing if you put it agaisnthalf a million followers.
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OH, and the whole TotalBiscuit thing: you do know he is also running a business? He is probably one of the most open about it. CynicalBrit and Cooptional are marketed brands. He does brand deals. He is taking money from big business and "corporations". For ♥♥♥♥♥ sake, people like him are called "influencers" in marketing and "corporations" go head over heels to please them if it fits their marketing campaign.