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Topic	Why is Jim Sterling complaining that it's easier for bad games to get on Steam.
yutterh 06/12/18 5:02:31 PM #43:	BlackScythe0 posted... yutterh posted... 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. People forget that this exact scenario happened with the atari. Which actually led to a videogame crash. But that was also when videogames were new and people were unsure about them. Now they are part of a way of life, just like any movie or novel. Heck the industry is growing so big that it is actually gonna be overtaking movies. So having a bunch of garbage will do nothing but make people never buy their games again. Nowadays if you screw up a game, your gonna get a ridiculous amount of bad publicity and boycotts. Like I will never buy another game from Gun Media, there handling of Friday the 13th is terrible. I don't think your Atari reference is truly valid. ET wasn't just a random one dollar game from a no name developer on steam. It was a advertised for a super popular movie that they made way too many copies for and developed by atari. Also wasn't really game reviews, not the way we have now to instantly pull things up on our phones. The kind of trash games I'm talking about aren't making it onto consoles. The industry is more mature now and technology allows us to pull up reviews on our phone at anytime for anything we want. LMAO you think I was only talking about ET? Yeah ET was a the poster child for the failure of games but it isn't the reason lol. A lot of companies back then made a lot of games and all kinds of games were made for the atari. Some of them broken and completely unplayable. Some awesome games we got were actually rush jobs as well. The whole industry back then had zero quality control. I honestly forgot where I heard a lot of this stuff from. probably some documentary on video games or my own research. But basically the entire industry crashed because all of the broken games made it crash. Nintendo revived gaming because of R.O.B. being marketed as a toy. No one wanted to buy videogame consoles or put them in their store for a long time. Which is also why nintendo made the seal of approval, so people know they are getting a quality game. Of course the seal didn't always protect against bad games but it was a PR stunt to get people trusting of the industry again. The rest, as they say, is history. --- i7-5820K 3.3GHz, Asus X99-DELUXE, Corsair H110i GTX, 850 EVO 1TB, EVGA GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX2.0, Corsair 760T, EVGA 850W, Orion Spark, Proteus Core, Benq BL3200PT <cite>yutterh posted [p:903099161] in Why is Jim... [t:76697117]...</cite> <quote><cite>BlackScythe0 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>yutterh posted...</cite> <quote><cite>BlackScythe0 posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> People forget that this exact scenario happened with the atari. Which actually led to a videogame crash. But that was also when videogames were new and people were unsure about them. Now they are part of a way of life, just like any movie or novel. Heck the industry is growing so big that it is actually gonna be overtaking movies. So having a bunch of garbage will do nothing but make people never buy their games again. Nowadays if you screw up a game, your gonna get a ridiculous amount of bad publicity and boycotts. Like I will never buy another game from Gun Media, there handling of Friday the 13th is terrible.</quote> I don't think your Atari reference is truly valid. ET wasn't just a random one dollar game from a no name developer on steam. It was a advertised for a super popular movie that they made way too many copies for and developed by atari. Also wasn't really game reviews, not the way we have now to instantly pull things up on our phones. The kind of trash games I'm talking about aren't making it onto consoles. The industry is more mature now and technology allows us to pull up reviews on our phone at anytime for anything we want.</quote> LMAO you think I was only talking about ET? Yeah ET was a the poster child for the failure of games but it isn't the reason lol. A lot of companies back then made a lot of games and all kinds of games were made for the atari. Some of them broken and completely unplayable. Some awesome games we got were actually rush jobs as well. The whole industry back then had zero quality control. I honestly forgot where I heard a lot of this stuff from. probably some documentary on video games or my own research. But basically the entire industry crashed because all of the broken games made it crash. Nintendo revived gaming because of R.O.B. being marketed as a toy. No one wanted to buy videogame consoles or put them in their store for a long time. Which is also why nintendo made the seal of approval, so people know they are getting a quality game. Of course the seal didn't always protect against bad games but it was a PR stunt to get people trusting of the industry again. The rest, as they say, is history. --- i7-5820K 3.3GHz, Asus X99-DELUXE, Corsair H110i GTX, 850 EVO 1TB, EVGA GTX 970 4GB FTW ACX2.0, Corsair 760T, EVGA 850W, Orion Spark, Proteus Core, Benq BL3200PT</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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