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Valve are continuing to roll out more features to help gamers find the titles they want to play, with the latest being Developer And Publisher Homepages which is expected to roll out on June 18th. It's still going to be in a Beta when it's rolled out, while they continually add features.

According to this Steam Partner page, it's currently in a "closed beta" with a limited amount of developers and publishers testing it out. As you can see from the shot above, it looks quite a bit like the current Curator system (see ours for example).

What's even more interesting, is that page talks about franchise pages. So it sounds like publishers would be able to have a specific section for series that have many entries.

I have to say, I actually love the idea of this. Being able to follow specific places, see their upcoming titles and so on, it's a good way to help sift through the noise. You could obviously argue that this is what their respective websites are supposed to be for, but when Steam has so much of the market already, actually having it all there makes a lot of sense.

What do you think?

Thanks, SteamDB.

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TheSHEEEP Jun 9, 2018
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Quoting: Doc AngeloI just checked the game list on GOG. Roughly 100 Games have 5 stars. roughly 1500 games have 4,5 or 4 stars (ca. 750 each). There are 2500 entries on GOG. The more you get into the lower territory, the more you get DLCs, digital goodies or sound tracks in there. So it doesn't look like there are 2500 actual games on there, but a lot of the lower rated entries is just bonus stuff.

That means the majority of the games on GOG have either 4 or 4,5 stars. For me, that's not really helpful.
How is that not helpful?
It means that the majority of games on GOG are good or very good in the opinion of their players. Which nobody would doubt, as they have a VERY thorough selection process - the opposite of Steam.
If they allowed all kinds of crap on their store, I guarantee you you would see a very different picture.

Besides, the overall rating of a game is pretty much irrelevant.
Nobody should give a flying f**k about what the mass of other people think. Most of them don't have your taste, so it is simply not important - at least if you don't play games to impress other people.

Sure, there may be people buying solely based on the average rating score, but I've never put much interest in the habits of idiots.

What is important is the single reasons people give for their ratings.
You have to read a number of reviews and check the reasons people give to come up with an informed opinion your own. In Steam, that means browsing a load of reviews as there are only two ratings to find some good ones.
On GOG, you can quickly look for a review of each rating, which gives you a much better impression.


Either way, I hope the very least Steam does is to allow posting of reviews without ratings.
Those are where the interesting analysis can be found. Or could, if they would exist.
I don't care if those neutral ratings would affect the overall rating or not.
But what truly bugs me is being unable to write reviews for so many games as I simply couldn't rate them just good or bad. And, of course, the terrible review editor itself, which is some awkward pre-WYSIWYG kind of thing.


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lucifertdark Jun 9, 2018
I keep hearing about asset flipping games, but what does that mean? what are they? what do I as a gamer need to look out for to avoid wasting my money on them?
Ehvis Jun 9, 2018
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Quoting: lucifertdarkI keep hearing about asset flipping games, but what does that mean? what are they? what do I as a gamer need to look out for to avoid wasting my money on them?

Games made purely out of the assets that can be bought in the (Unity) asset store. Some "devs" stitch a few basic components together, give it a name and put it on Steam to make a quick buck from unsuspecting buyers who respond to the fancy descriptions.

Once you know, you can pretty much recognise them from the thumbnails. They're generally pretty empty screenshots with no atmosphere whatever. They don't show gameplay and if there is an interface showing at all, it's the most basic stuff you've seen.
lucifertdark Jun 9, 2018
Quoting: EhvisGames made purely out of the assets that can be bought in the (Unity) asset store. Some "devs" stitch a few basic components together, give it a name and put it on Steam to make a quick buck from unsuspecting buyers who respond to the fancy descriptions.

Once you know, you can pretty much recognise them from the thumbnails. They're generally pretty empty screenshots with no atmosphere whatever. They don't show gameplay and if there is an interface showing at all, it's the most basic stuff you've seen.
AH I should have known that, I got stung with one of those a while back, Time Ramesside is it's name. Utter Utter tripe.
FutureSuture Jun 9, 2018
I suppose I have to continue waiting for Steam to make achievements and game time tracking optional, just like Galaxy does. Unfortunately for me, Galaxy does not have a Linux client while Steam does. Why can we never have the best of both worlds?
razing32 Jun 10, 2018
Quoting: lucifertdark
Quoting: EhvisGames made purely out of the assets that can be bought in the (Unity) asset store. Some "devs" stitch a few basic components together, give it a name and put it on Steam to make a quick buck from unsuspecting buyers who respond to the fancy descriptions.

Once you know, you can pretty much recognise them from the thumbnails. They're generally pretty empty screenshots with no atmosphere whatever. They don't show gameplay and if there is an interface showing at all, it's the most basic stuff you've seen.
AH I should have known that, I got stung with one of those a while back, Time Ramesside is it's name. Utter Utter tripe.

Your best bet is to check youtube , or the comments section on steam.
Even googleing it can lead to a reddit post where people figured out what assets were flipped in that instance.
The problem is those "devs" constantly change their names and release under more and more accounts.
They are like a plague.

TL;DR version : If you know nothing about a game and it feels off/empty search for gameplay/reviews
lucifertdark Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: razing32Your best bet is to check youtube , or the comments section on steam.
Even googleing it can lead to a reddit post where people figured out what assets were flipped in that instance.
The problem is those "devs" constantly change their names and release under more and more accounts.
They are like a plague.

TL;DR version : If you know nothing about a game and it feels off/empty search for gameplay/reviews
Thanks razing32, I really should know these things the amount of years I've been a gamer, I started with PONG (the game not the smell).
razing32 Jun 11, 2018
Quoting: lucifertdark
Quoting: razing32Your best bet is to check youtube , or the comments section on steam.
Even googleing it can lead to a reddit post where people figured out what assets were flipped in that instance.
The problem is those "devs" constantly change their names and release under more and more accounts.
They are like a plague.

TL;DR version : If you know nothing about a game and it feels off/empty search for gameplay/reviews
Thanks razing32, I really should know these things the amount of years I've been a gamer, I started with PONG (the game not the smell).

NP. I just saw people get burned and followed youtubers who track these kinds of people.
It's really interesting what scam they have going selling crap games to generate cards and sell cards for real money to buy good games.
If you focus on the games and miss the drama I envy you :) It's a good place to be.
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