LogFAQs > #903026520

Zareth posted...

That's like a wheat farmer complaining that people want to eat bread.

I... what? That's an awful metaphor.

BlackScythe0 posted...

The complaint is the people who just get some resources off the internet and throw them into a basically no effort "game" to get a buck from people gullible enough to buy it. It serves to bury potentially good games under shit.

But while I can understand the argument I would prefer lower barriers to entry, shit and all. The good games always seems to float up and there are a number of great channels on youtube that sift through the shit to do videos on the promising games.

idk, while I like the concept of low barriers, a lot of stuff I might like is probably buried deep enough in the muck that I'll never see it. Only the really superb stuff -- which also requires some luck -- really excels, whereas a lot of pretty good games get crammed among the zero-effort nonsense.

adjl posted...

It's more like a baker complaining that the biggest grocery store in town (by far) doesn't actually care about the quality of the bread they stock, so their shelves are full of moldy, stale, bug-ridden bread, much of which is actually just repackaged flour and doesn't even qualify as "bread" by any reasonable definition. They'll still stock that baker's bread, along with any other legitimate, high-quality bread, but because of how much garbage they'd have to sift through, consumers aren't likely to ever buy said bread unless they know about it already and ask a clerk to show them where it is.

Basically, Steam's storefront is useless for anyone looking to shop. It's fine for buying, but lesser-known games depend on people shopping aimlessly to be discovered.

This, tbh. It's one big reason I've never got into Steam.
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