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Guy Mann posted:Glad to see that getting exactly what he wanted isn't going to stop the fat fake Nazi from raking in those sweet sweet outrage clicks on YouTube. He changed his image from fake Nazi to carnival barker, and I think that works a lot better.
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Wait what? I thought Jim Sterling was pretty vocally anti-nazi? Edit: Oh, he dressed up sort of like a fake nazi at the start of the video I guess. Though given the name, I would have figured he was going for more of a modern inquisition type thing. He did make a good point about it being really weird that Valve can get away with selling some of the more offensive stuff on Steam though, and the quotes from indie developers about how all the crap makes it harder for good indies to be successful highlighted an aspect I hadn't really given much thought. There's a lot of good footage of terrible games too! il_cornuto fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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A good poster posted:He changed his image from fake Nazi to carnival barker, and I think that works a lot better.
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Jim's a rabblerouser, but I often agree with his message.
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I gather he used to be a bit of a shitlord but is now a shitlord in a different, more agreeable sense.
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Glad to hear he got his poo poo together.
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I usually agree with what he says but his presentation has always been extremely painful and cringey to experience
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Digirat posted:I usually agree with what he says but his presentation has always been extremely painful and cringey to experience Terrible Awful Games on Steam Megathread: extremely painful and cringey to experience
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il_cornuto posted:Edit: Oh, he dressed up sort of like a fake nazi at the start of the video I guess. It's more of a half-assed plague doctor look. If you're hankering for some badgame, though, why not check out the RPG Maker poopchute, Athopiu: the Final Rebirth of Hopeless Incarnate. But hey! At least it has DLC purchases! Added value! GauRocks posted:This is not a game. This is ten maps stuck together with 15 functional random encounters, 4 where the developer couldn't be bothered to give them the correct name, and one broken encounter that crashes the engine. Then again, you can probably look up any game ArcaneRaise has published and find some hot garbage. Hey, here's their newest release, an asset flip called Blackscreen Simulator. Actual Ad Copy posted:You are patient, enemy are zombie. Patient is good, zombie are bad. Patient goal is kill zombie and escape crazy hospital. There are a lot of zombie for patient to kill and many fun for player to play Blackscreen Simulator. Do you like black? Because game is very dark, you can see hard. Good luck! Something something Steam Direct sarcasm 
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Lately this thread is full of minimum-effort cash grabs and/or kafkaesque fetish pornography. Have a sincere labor of love instead. Math Combat Challenge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-eaYB_HqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8h7vm_353k
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Alien Rope Burn posted:If you're hankering for some badgame, though, why not check out the RPG Maker poopchute, Athopiu: the Final Rebirth of Hopeless Incarnate. But hey! At least it has DLC purchases! Added value! Hahaha the trailer features a random battle with bees labeled as orcs.
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Tobermory posted:Lately this thread is full of minimum-effort cash grabs and/or kafkaesque fetish pornography. Have a sincere labor of love instead. Oh man, who needs voice acting when you have microsoft Sam?
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I read that as "The Well of Vore" at first. 
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Largepotato posted:I read that as "The Well of Vore" at first. Haha, no, I'm just bringing this screencap to marvel at how that's the first screencap in their storepage.
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Always nice to see family members helping each other out, even in small ways.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Haha, no, I'm just bringing this screencap to marvel at how that's the first screencap in their storepage. Oh god, until you said that I didn't realize they put that as a game screenshot for the storepage. I thought it was copy pasted for easy laughter. Just. Wow.
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il_cornuto posted:Wait what? I thought Jim Sterling was pretty vocally anti-nazi? It's understandable that people would get the wrong impression the one time out of a hundred that someone using Nazi iconography ironically was actually legitimately doing it for satirical purposes and not as a smokescreen.
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Using nazi icons as a joke used to be super common but not anymore we've lost that innocence.
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:It's understandable that people would get the wrong impression the one time out of a hundred that someone using Nazi iconography ironically was actually legitimately doing it for satirical purposes and not as a smokescreen. He's been doing this poo poo for longer than the mainstream Nazi resurgence has been happening, so.
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Yeah, Jim started out as just some guy talking about his opinions on the Escapist, but when that proved unpopular (I think he displaced Movie Bob or something?), he decided to go hog-wild with his dictator persona, which seemed to work. Then 2017 came, and playing an egotistic dictator suddenly didn't seem funny anymore. The show had also been moving from those roots, with Jim doing skits in costume and the like, so the whole egotistic showman thing seemed the logical way to go.
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Violently Car posted:He's been doing this poo poo for longer than the mainstream Nazi resurgence has been happening, so. I know this but "it's an Alan Moore reference guys" does not seem like a worthwhile hill to die on (So it's good that he finally gave up!).
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StrixNebulosa posted:The explicit purpose of this article is to highlight the unethical, anti-consumer and illegal practices of developer/publisher SakuraGame, responsible for selling cheap adult-oriented games on Steam. ~uguu 
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StrixNebulosa posted:The explicit purpose of this article is to highlight the unethical, anti-consumer and illegal practices of developer/publisher SakuraGame, responsible for selling cheap adult-oriented games on Steam.  https://i.imgur.com/YgEs3y0.jpg
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I'm bored, I'm tired, I figured I'd look through the steam queues before bed, see if anything decent was on 'em, and... There's so much shovelware, unfunny trash, VR games, and porn in there it's becoming a marvel if I find even one semi-interesting game. I know Steam's been full of trash for years, but the floodgates are well and truly open and I'm not sure how to feel about it.
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the long-awaited sequel to the game where you play inventory tetris on your slave ship?????
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I did not know any of this about Steam Direct until reading about it in this thread, but goddamn that makes what I've been seeing recently on Steam make a lot of sense. It won't stop, either, since Valve makes at least $100 per piece of shovelware added to their service. They need to have active screening of submitted games, but they created a financial incentive for themselves to do nothing about the shitshow they created. It's beautiful, in a way.
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OutOfPrint posted:They need to have active screening of submitted games Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless.
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Guy Mann posted:Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless. "literally no downside" ... Have you seen the appstores lately? Or the asset flippers?
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OutOfPrint posted:I did not know any of this about Steam Direct until reading about it in this thread, but goddamn that makes what I've been seeing recently on Steam make a lot of sense. It won't stop, either, since Valve makes at least $100 per piece of shovelware added to their service. They need to have active screening of submitted games, but they created a financial incentive for themselves to do nothing about the shitshow they created. I'm pretty sure they donate the fee to charity.
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Guy Mann posted:Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless. When a marketplace becomes saturated with rubbish that is a waste of money, it becomes harder to find stuff that is worth the money and people stop shopping there and the market crashes. This has happened to video games before, see Nintendo's fortune largely existing because of "the Nintendo seal of approval"
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Guy Mann posted:Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless. The downside of having more games on Steam, is that a lot of what's being uploaded barely match the criteria of being a game. It's becoming less and less feasible to use the storefront to discover and buy actual good videogames. I'm looking at the 'New Releases' tab on the store right now, and there's exactly 1 game that isn't obviously trash, and it says "Become a Cat!" in the title. Greenlight was a shitshow, but so is this new system.
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FoolyCharged posted:When a marketplace becomes saturated with rubbish that is a waste of money, it becomes harder to find stuff that is worth the money and people stop shopping there and the market crashes. If only there were about a billion aggregate review websites who made it their business to make sure these games don't fall through the cracks. FoolyCharged posted:This has happened to video games before, see Nintendo's fortune largely existing because of "the Nintendo seal of approval" The reason garbage games caused the great crash is because retailers started refusing to carry games after being stuck with unsold stock. This is completely irrelevant in the digital marketplace.
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tight aspirations posted:I'm pretty sure they donate the fee to charity.
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Guy Mann posted:Why? There is literally no downside to having more games on Steam outside of same vague sense of moral outrage among a small group of people and plenty of great games that never would have gotten on Steam have showed up since they moved from their old "know a guy who works for Valve" model of adding titles so it's a net good regardless. That Jim Sterling video posted earlier had quotes from a couple of indie developers suggesting it is now much harder for good indie games to be successful, because they get lost in the sea of poo poo games. None of the methods for choosing what to put on Steam have been particularly good, but Steam Direct is the worst yet.
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