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Topic	Why is Jim Sterling complaining that it's easier for bad games to get on Steam.
Dikitain 06/11/18 3:49:16 PM #24:	adjl posted... Dikitain posted... Steam is a marketplace, it's job is to have an outlet to sell games. It is not it's job to filter through the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of games on it's platform to only provide you with the good ones. Anybody expecting Steam to do this is f*ing insane. Literally every store in the world filters its products. Expecting Steam to do the same is not unreasonable; that's just how retail works. Store != Marketplace Store implies that it would be a single shop (I.E. developer) selling games. I mean you can argue that it is a store for Valve games but not for other developers. A marketplace is a series of shops, and since Steam is catering to multiple developers who get money every time one of their products are sold (unlike a typical store where they would buy a set number of keys for sale and it would be their responsibility to sell them at what they think is a fair price for profit) it is not a store and therefore does not need to follow a quality control mechanism. Is it a mall's responsibility when you buy a shirt that falls apart from a store that rents space there? --- I am a senior software engineer. If you see me post here, I am tired of writing TPS reports. <cite>Dikitain posted [p:902988534] in Why is Jim... [t:76697117]...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Dikitain posted...</cite> <quote>Steam is a marketplace, it's job is to have an outlet to sell games. It is not it's job to filter through the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of games on it's platform to only provide you with the good ones. Anybody expecting Steam to do this is f*ing insane. </quote> Literally every store in the world filters its products. Expecting Steam to do the same is not unreasonable; that's just how retail works.</quote> Store != Marketplace Store implies that it would be a single shop (I.E. developer) selling games. I mean you can argue that it is a store for Valve games but not for other developers. A marketplace is a series of shops, and since Steam is catering to multiple developers who get money every time one of their products are sold (unlike a typical store where they would buy a set number of keys for sale and it would be their responsibility to sell them at what they think is a fair price for profit) it is not a store and therefore does not need to follow a quality control mechanism. Is it a mall's responsibility when you buy a shirt that falls apart from a store that rents space there? --- I am a senior software engineer. If you see me post here, I am tired of writing TPS reports.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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