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The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim Sweeney
- Thread starter chadskin
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Yes, and people complained endlessly about the evil monopoly of Steam.
Figures. If Epic can make it work and keep the asset flips and hentai trash off while also letting no one else slip through the cracks, then that'd be a meaningful contribution to the PC ecosystem that's Steam hasn't yet accomplished.
I'm not optimistic. Methinks you need to take the bad with the good in this instance.
there was some quote around the time steam opened up that they woudln't have greenlit stardew valley because who wants to play some dumbass farming game? (not the direct quote but the basic message of the quote)
curious how this will go for Epic. I expect bad results
Probably. Which means the thing that a lot of people thought would happen, Epic rejecting a lot of the developers that are so up in arms over Steam, is now much more likely.https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures/home
So what's crappy then? Indie games with no big name?
If you want to know what he means by crappy browse the steam store new releases
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I think his bigger point is that EGS won't be filled with hundreds of thousands of gutter games that people manage to get onto the steam store. Not that games with less-than-steller reviews can't make their way onto the store.
Thankfully, as long as EGS doesn't have any monetary benefit for consumers to buy these shitty games (i.e. trading cards, easy achievements, emotes) they'll have much less to concern themselves with than Valve.
Thankfully, as long as EGS doesn't have any monetary benefit for consumers to buy these shitty games (i.e. trading cards, easy achievements, emotes) they'll have much less to concern themselves with than Valve.
It Will be interesting if some big AAA game launch there with bugs or lack of content
I'm sorry but I can't get past Tim "Captain MoneyHat" Sweeney calling PC "an open platform. "
The man is a sentient pile of hypocrisy wearing a tailored suit.
This could be interpreted to mean that they either define "crappy" games to be games in those categories or that they won't let in crappy games in addition to games in those categories. The latter seems more intuitive to me since it's obvious that a porn game can also be high quality.
The "crappy games" statement is completely separate from that one. If you actually read it, you'd say they will also only accept what they decide to be "good quality games".
RCT Adventures is not a freaking "good quality game".
Memes I guess? QD games are like schlocky B movies with a ton of polish. General audiences love them and elite gamers hate them apparently.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures/home
So what's crappy then? Indie games with no big name?
I'm guessing things like this:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/921430/Genius_NAZIGIRL_GoePPelsChan_ep1/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037420/Hentai_Strawberry/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1010420/MultiplayerFPS/
The lack of curation is one of the biggest complaints about Steam. He's saying they'll not let the same happen to EGS.
Never forget GOG blocking Opus Magnum because it looked like a mobile game.
This will go well.
This is exactly what I mean when it comes to being purposefully obtuse. RCT Adventures is not necessarily a quality game. But it sure isn't a porn game or asset flip. Read the entire article and you should be able to come top that conclusion.
People have made dozens of write ups of the racism, misogyny, and ableism that these games are full of but go off
ladykiller in a bind is in fact a Bad Anime Loli Game and should be banned everywhere
If you want to know what he means by crappy you can just literally just read his statement. They say they won't accept any game that isn't of "good quality".If you want to know what he means by crappy browse the steam store new releases
Here:
"Pussy 2" "hetai babes sport lovers"
RCT Adventures is, in fact, not of "good quality". That made it to the store just fine.
The first jackbox is on there and I know it has some issues on newer pcs (unless it was fixed) but everything including the kitchen sink has the series
wait
When characters have consenting sexy times that doesn't feel out of place.
wait
awful...wtf happened to Steam?If you want to know what he means by crappy browse the steam store new releases
Here:
"Pussy 2" "hetai babes sport lovers"
God forbid somebody thinks a game that shoves an
android concentration camp
No. Read it again. They said they'll only accept "good quality" games. It's a lie.
If you want to know what he means by crappy browse the steam store new releases
Here:
"Pussy 2" "hetai babes sport lovers"
From this list, 'Agartha' is a quite interesting Japanese doujin game, toying with the roots of the sandbox genre in classic Japanese computer games from the 80s.
Sadly, not the promised 'Agartha' developed by Frederick Raynal for the Dreamcast.
Ok so when I see a dev say something like "This game is a game that I have been working on for about a year now and i want to distribute it and I couldn't think of anyplace better than Steam", my reaction is more along the lines of "it's cool that Steam has given this person the opportunity to sell their game and maybe some people will like it" not "this trash needs to never be given the privilege of showing up in search results alongside PUBG and DMCV".
Popular New releases is the default browsing for new releases. Actually searching new releases manually in chronological order is the same as any massive uncurated store, be it itunes, amazon etc. Yes you will find trash - but how much trash do you see when you are actually browsing the store or trying to find your games normally? Chances are not much at all for a store of this scale. And furthermore, you wouldn''t solely use any given storefront for that purpose
As amply demonstrated in countless threads now, and my own experience, the only way for me to find trash directly on Steam is to:
- Manually search for a game highlighted on via Jim Sterling / social media
- Manually search specifically new releases in chronological order, or try to find a free to play game in new and trending
- Scroll for an extremely long time on a particular category or chart
- Specifically choose a curator that does the same
To this day I am 99% not seeing anything considered trash outside of popular games I think are trash and are rated poorly (eg Atlas when it released). Steam gives you all the tools to lock out games you don't like by tag (eg I will never by dating sims - great, simply add it the ignore list and you never see any of those games)
The amount of tools to customise steam is awesome, far beyond any other gaming platform.