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If you think the bottom has been reached, look at the "best of" of the Play store. That's the cess pit the PC game market will be turning into, and I have no h

• venomsnake 11y ago
  It won't because there are other forms of distribution too. Yeah steam is the big guy. But there is always gog and whatnot to keep quality high.
• anon4 11y ago
  But those games have always been there. Go in your local store that carries physical copies of games and count the shovelware. Steam isn't supposed to be a curation service - there are tons of those, find a reviewer you like and follow their recommendations. Steam should be as full as possible a repository of paid games you can download.
  • otakucode 11y ago
    Yeah, we solved this problem already. YouTube is FILLED with garbage. But you only find the garbage you like, mostly. Steam is a problem because they don't have a recommendation engine that learns from a users preferences. And really, that should be inexcusable today. Steam would be fairly easy to compete with, I expect, since they don't do anything other than let big publishers do whatever they want and provide a dumping ground for everyone else. If they restricted the big publishers, then it would be tough because you'd have to get them on board, but Valve even paid to implement their "preloading" system so big publishers didn't have to run the risk of actually taking advantage of digital distro and endangering their retail distro agreements by having stuff available 2 weeks before the boxes could make it onto the shelves.
  • JoshTriplett 11y ago
    Exactly. And if you look back 10-20 years, you could find those same games in the unsorted $2-$5 bin at electronics stores.