Chaz at Twinfinite writes:
So, I’ve reviewed quite a number of games in my time here at Twinfinite. Some have been great, some have been not-so-great, but they’ve all shared a pretty important, consistent feature: playability. I’m not talking about precision controls, great story, or any of the things that pile on to take a game from “working” to “enjoyable” – mean the most fundamental form of functionality, the ability to open the game and, after some probable loading time, play it as it exists. Guise of the Wolf is unique in my experience if only for its inability to successfully deliver this, which makes it a very difficult title to review on any other merit (or shortcoming).
Avoiderdragon: It can be said that the gaming market has a certain standard when it comes to the quality of products. However, there are times when something sub-par slips through the filters and is sold at a higher price than it’s truly worth. Maybe it’s due to more developers coming in with their own power to put out games for sale, so there’s bound to be some misses to go with the hits. Guise of the Wolf is one hell of a miss, and it could have been better served by staying invisible. Alas, it did get a wrong kind of marketing that made it known.
While Steam’s store is known for offering many fantastic games, there are also games of unbelievably poor quality that go beyond the subjective bounds of personal taste and display a definitive lack of effort. Allowing these practically unfinished titles to be published on the platform creates a library of shovelware which lowers the reputation of Steam’s digital catalog.
Does it really matter? You don't have to buy them. It's not like it brings down the quality of the really amazing titles Steam offers.
it can be a problem if steam becomes flooded with poorly-made, sub-par games and actual good games are lost among those, as is the case with android/iphone app store.
I think they should raise their standards a little more for greenlight games and it would be perfect
Greenlight is going away. plus, i agree with Snookies12, options are there. if you want to buy them, do it. it's the power of choice you dont see on console platforms.
and Valve is trying to help small indie dev's getting their games out in the open. i dont see a problem with that.
again, you dont have to buy anything. what you may call shovelware and bad, some people like.
Some people call early access a waste and bad for the industry, i love it. bought 5 games in early access. so what you think may not be what others think. there is 70 million subs after all on steam.
Plus, half of these "shoverlware" items are better than most triple A 60 dollar games. like assetto corsa, or day z.
It's not about caring, it's about giving developers the opportunity to put shovelware on the service.
We deal enough with big time games that run like shovelware, now we also have real shovelware coming.
Steam use to be about quality, and now they tried to do something good (Greenlight), but it turned corrupt and now there a number of users that spend their money in vein on the product. (Please don't say they should have researched because for shovelware u can't always find what u need, and biased reviews aren't scarce with them...since most feedback come from forums...which could be friends of friends of devs...or people that don't want to admit that they wasted their money.
I would love to see some heavy moderation. I do not want this to turn into the Google Play store...or even AppStore.
It's too bad though, some indie devs don't deserve the bad rap that profiteers are looking to do here.
I bet we see Flappy Bird/Fish coming to steam soon!
Steam introduced Tags for their game library so those should be helpful in sifting through all those titles.
I just wish Steam offered a way to filter out the Early Access games and software that are not games at all.
I don't see the problem here. Steam isn't responsible for these games. There is a review system in place now so the feedback should weed crap games out without Steam having to police bad games.
Valve controls the platform. They clearly don't test any of the games that they put on Steam, even though they claim they do, because there are tons of literally broken, horrible games on Steam. Every platform holder is responsible for upholding a certain level of quality for the games they allow to be sold on their platform. The review system you speak of requires people to be ripped off by bad games first before they can review them, that is not a solution.
deal with it. nobody is forcing you to buy anything. what you dont like others may like, so stick to your 60 dollar games if you want, fact is a lot of these early access games are better optimized than most triple a games and even better.
banished is better than simcity, day z is better than any zombie game out there. assetto corsa is better than gran turismo. fact? no. see what i did there?
The PC is a platform. Steam is not. It's a market place and community. This is like blaming the Playstation Store because Aliens Colonial Marines sucked.
Guise of the Wolf touts itself as a “mystery action adventure”, an unsubstantiated claim if ever there was one. Besides navigating endless tunnels, there are only five instances where you will be tasked with doing something different. Yeah, we counted.
