The Steam game store is 75% to 80% of the market for video games. Since January last year, Steam has had an AI disclosure policy on games. This is instead of just rejecting games with AI in them, a…
  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    102·
    1 day ago

    A bit yes, but also not great. See how they treated the horse game, which prob will cause the studio to close. And the whole not standing up against payment providers when they try to ban porn in general. (Think they might have done a small thing, but it took long, and wasn’t coordinated), and then there is the moderation issues, the etc etc. Still Steam is better than Epic, but that is only because Epic is just bad as a storefront. Steam is lucky they didn’t work on that harder than they did and assumed they could just get away with giving free games (it still can’t properly keep you logged in).

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      73·
      23 hours ago

      See how they treated the horse game,

      The game where the preview version they sent to valve had a scene where a little girl asks to ride a naked man? And then rides the naked man? That horse game?

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        44·
        21 hours ago

        I dont know, as steam has not told anybody why they object to the game. You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

        • SpaceMan9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
          73·
          21 hours ago

          In an interview he said that they warned him about that scene when they sent the preview version…

          While I think the steam monopoly is bad, the developer has acted in bad faith.

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            42·
            6 hours ago

            From what I heard they dropped that shit, steam still dropped them and didn’t mentioned why, that isn’t bad faith, nobody was saying it wasn’t an edgy game, and the devs didn’t hide that. (E: in fact their own faq openly mentions this. So no idea where you got the bad faith thing from, if you didnt think this up yourself but got it from some drama content creator you might want tl wonder if they are in bad faith).

            You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

            I mean lets not forget there are several sex with hitler games on steam.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
          33·
          20 hours ago

          You confused me complaining about the process

          So what is your complaint? That Steam is not obligated to host every game submitted to them? Or that Steam does not take the time to provide a point by point critique of every game submitted to them?

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            41·
            15 hours ago

            That they are a bad publisher, don’t provide good feedback, their tools on the developer sides suck (the stories I heard from people who have released things), they don’t help out smaller developers out at all, the 30% fee if you are small less fee if you are big thing is silly, that they are opaque as fuck when dealing with them, their moderation sucks (see how long it took them to do anything about review bombing for example), etc etc.

            a point by point critique of every game

            nice bit of bad faith there.

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
              22·
              3 hours ago

              So nothing to do with the horse game. Don’t feed into their publicity stunt.

            • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
              42·
              11 hours ago

              How DARE you criticise my dear perfect little baby boy Steam, my lawyers will be contacting you shortly,

              • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
                31·
                7 hours ago

                One of the things that really weirds me out about gamers is that when they pay 10 bucks for a game they become the most entitled people around (not talking about the people here, just in general, my comments here about steam should also be seen as that), but they never are as entitled towards steam which takes a 30% bite out of that ten bucks for every purchase (*). Even when steam is like all tech companies simply a non-communicative and hard to contact monster of a company. Im still amazed for example that one of my games on my wishlist is simply a grayed out void. (I know what happened and which game it was, a developer who released a game on steam told me how to figure it out, still odd steam didnt tell us why it was removed. Same with the misery debacle (dont get me wrong steam defenders, the dev(s) were at fault there, but steam could have be more upfront about it (they included stalker 2 assets I heard) but it is a similar sort of dmca shit like what is plaguing YouTube).

                *: I dont actually know if keys bought from key resellers like humble bundle for example replace that 30% or if they take another bite, replacing it would explain why humble can sell so many keys at 20% off. Not that I dont have a separate rant about humble (which I suspect will not live very long anymore, as it has been acting weird).

                • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
                  2·
                  4 hours ago

                  probably the easiest angle to take here is to point out that it’s easy to be an uncritical consumer of games, and steam facilitates that (iTs BeTtEr ThAn PiRaTiNg)