It is now possible to make games by connecting bubbles together and the price is insanely cheap if you don’t value your time. The shit must flow.
Are you insinuating that my masterpiece Diarrhea 4 is shit?
Thank you!
Okay, this is excellent. Truly a masterpiece of our time.
40 a day? Damn maybe curb them Asset Flips then.
In the age of AI shovelware will be the norm
Yeah but whatever, having them on the store doesn’t mean that they’re selling or even being suggested, it means that someone paid $100 to get it listed and available. Steam doesn’t bother with organic marketing until you have at least ten positive reviews from people who didn’t get the game for free, anyway; so this is kind of a non-issue.
If a whole bunch of people are now capable of putting honest games together, I call that a win. If it’s AI it’s already pretty much against the rules of the platform, and will likely not sell even if they sneak it in dishonestly, so I call that a mildly offensive red herring. You can get a refund within the first two hours of gameplay with no questions asked anyway.
We fine.
I’ve gone back and forth, but I agree. People just need to stop assuming that a game being on Steam is an endorsement. It’s just a platform. They’ve removed almost all barrier for entry to enable truly indie developers to have their game on the premier PC game store. I’m sure indies prefer paying $100 and doing whatever they can to gain social traction compared to begging the gatekeepers at major publishers to give them a chance, though I could be wrong.
Yeah, and there’s a a lot of games on Steam that would never get approved by a publisher, especially the smallest of indie games. Besides, if you have the means to get a finished game on Steam without a publisher, you get to keep all revenue to yourself instead of losing ~50% to a publisher.
Out of those games, I wonder how much of them were porn? 50%? 80%? 99%?
I wouldn’t be surprised if half of everything in the last 6 months were hentai virtual novels wholly written and image-generated by AI. A quick glance at F95 will certainly make one think so.
Does Steam sell porn games though? I have Cyberpunk and a couple others on Steam but I can’t say I’ve seen anything that is that kind of adult content.
There’s a reason steam is adding the ability to hide games in your library.
Do you have mature filters on? I see at least one adult game on the front page all the time, if not a dozen despite having bought only two or three on my account (compared to the better part of 1k games on my list).
Lots of games with advertised screenshots blocked due to being mature, and lots more that don’t despite being obviously pornographic.
Okay so I read it because I was curious to see what their argument is, and when I finally read it it’s that “they can’t play them all” ? Like a baby? What? What a useless publication that is too, now all of them are lost completely to the enshittification diarrhea epidemic
it’s probably what happens on google play store or other similar platforms
