Let Us Report Game Shaped Objects

[EternalAmbiguity]

Was just going through my reccommendations and found a couple of really crappy "games" by the same "developer" recommended to me. Here's one:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/935860/The_young_mathematician_Easy_difficulty/

If you click the developer name you'll see they have like 50 "games" produced in 2017-2018, most of them of the "steal random pictures and smack a puzzle generator over it" variant.

I think there's a problem with this: I would love efforts to mitigate this kind of "carpet bombing" perhaps by making Steam Direct submission costs increase exponentially for submissions in a short period of time (say $100 * # submissions every 1-3 months (or 100 ^ # for maximum effect)), with the justification being that no legitimate developer pumps out a new game a month--publishers maybe (and even then it's rare), but not developers.

HOWEVER, all of that is me being a little vindictive towards something that bothers me. The real reason I'm making this thread:


I went to report the game, but found that there was not a category for "game shaped object," or anything like it. Given that Valve's been touting their intent to eradicate this category of software, I'd think they'd have a way for the users to indicate when they see one. Independent of my opinion of the above game or developer specifically:


TL; DR: I think "Game shaped object" should be added as a choice in the Report options for a game.

[Start_Running]

Uhmm.. might I suggest you just ignore because ironically what you pointed out is very much a game and doesn't raise any red flags. Reasonable number of achievements its actually looking like a fun little educational or edutainment tool for children. Browsing the catalog...that seems to be the gneral gist of his games. Guy would have had a promising future if Popcap was still around.

They are also low budget which basically explains the prolific nature. He speciallizes in small, puzzle/basic platformer type games it seems.

You've given a very good reason why the GSO designation does not exist.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ignore them. The publisher at least has some other types of games.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by ---:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Ignore them. The publisher at least has some other types of games.

:qr:

Honestly, do you comment on every single suggestion post in a negative way like it's your job or did someone put a stick this far up your behind?

Better question.. do you actually have anything to add to the discussion. Also he wasn't being negative. He gave the best advice in this situh. Ignore the developer if you don't like their games. Plenty of others.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by ---:

Honestly, do you comment on every single suggestion post in a negative way like it's your job or did someone put a stick this far up your behind?

Did you have anything to add to the actual discussion?

If not, please refrain from coming in just to harass me.

:qr:

Heh heh. What did you do to the poor fellow HGotsauce?

Back on topic its rather odd that the OP chose to illustrate his point with the title that actually is quite legit. I mean I'd buy that for a young child as a tool for practicing basic math skills. And most of the other games are memory games, puzzle sliders or basic platformers. Didn't look through the entire list but...what I saw fit those categories.

Those are all real games.

[Garou]

This is about the OP issue and many others like it.Every time there's a suggestion to hide, block or report unwanted content you and others like you come in and shoot it down. Last time I checked, you're not a Valve employee and do not speak for them.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by ---:

This is about the OP issue and many others like it.Every time there's a suggestion to hide, block or report unwanted content you and others like you come in and shoot it down. Last time I checked, you're not a Valve employee and do not speak for them.

This is a user forum, where users discuss the suggestions/ideas. They are allowed to voice their opinions.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by ---:

This is about the OP issue and many others like it.Every time there's a suggestion to hide, block or report unwanted content you and others like you come in and shoot it down. Last time I checked, you're not a Valve employee and do not speak for them.

What's unwanted by you may be wanted by someone else. and really steam can't read your mind (yet) you don't know what you will or won't like until you see it. in most cases, unless you're the close minded sort.

Also rather clear why the OP found those games. When you look for dirt cheap games you're not going to find anything great.

[The End]

Originally posted by Everlasting Atonement:

Let Us Report Game Shaped Objects ... Was just going through my reccommendations and found a couple of really crappy "games" by the same "developer" recommended to me. Here's one:

Games you do not like, don't have to be bad games, feel free to ignore them, there might be other users who actually like this kind of games, you are not the only one who use Steamstore.

Originally posted by ---:

This is about the OP issue and many others like it.Every time there's a suggestion to hide, block or report unwanted content you and others like you come in and shoot it down. Last time I checked, you're not a Valve employee and do not speak for them.

This is a userforum, everyone who is ontopic and within the rules has every right to say what they think about a topic.

[EternalAmbiguity]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Back on topic its rather odd that the OP chose to illustrate his point with the title that actually is quite legit. I mean I'd buy that for a young child as a tool for practicing basic math skills. And most of the other games are memory games, puzzle sliders or basic platformers. Didn't look through the entire list but...what I saw fit those categories.

Those are all real games.

It happened to be the second or third game in my queue by the same dev so I arbitrarily chose that one. I'd agree it's different from the others.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Also rather clear why the OP found those games. When you look for dirt cheap games you're not going to find anything great.

I wasn't looking for dirt cheap games. I was looking through my Steam-generated queue.

And for what it's worth, I got two others by the same developer afterwards (in the same queue) for a total of at least 4 during the same queue. I've never bought one of these match 3 or jigsaw puzzle games (though I have gotten a boatload of the "hentai" versions in my queue) so I don't understand why I'm getting them. Theoretically better ML algorithms can mitigate this, but either way...



It's clear people are getting hung up on this specific example, but the point is independent from that. Why shouldn't we have the ability to flag "Game Shaped Objects" on the store? That doesn't mean Steam has to take them down, just that they get a notification that X number of people (or X% of accounts that have encountered the store page, I don't know how much granularity they have) have flagged it in a certain way and they can take a look and decide for themselves to keep or remove something.

I don't feel Steam should be too restrictive in deciding what stays on the store. But I also feel the users should have as many feedback options as available.

[Brian9824]

Why not just ignore the game or block the developer if you don't like them? I mean your not FORCED to buy their games.