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Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
by Kiro 3y ago
Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoFalse equivalence. The scale of the problem is not even remotely close.
- dagmx 3y agoBut the problem is irrelevant. You don’t have to play those bad games, and their point is that bad games don’t make good games worse. I don’t get why gamers get into this tribal mentality of only one good thing may exist.
- wzy 3y agoHow will I know the bad games without wasting time playing them? Should I trust those reviews on the Play Store?
- hbn 3y agoYou know full well Steam's library is not at all comparable to what's available on mobile. There are thousands of quality games on Steam. How many mobile games are out there that are quality crafted experiences, and not just endless grinding to squeeze as much money as possible out of the user? I recall seeing a handful come out ~10 years ago, like The Room and Monument Valley. These days the best ones to come out are PC/console games that just so happened to get mobile ports like Papers Please or Slay the Spire.
- hypercube33 3y agoI remember back in the day there were tons of awesome games for palm pilot. mobile games that seem fun or good always seem to devolve into pay to play to the point I've just given up completely on them.
- hbn 3y agoEven in the early days of the App Store on the iPhone/iPod Touch it seemed like there was so much opportunity for new types of games and experiences that could be made with the new formfactor/input method compared to prior gaming handhelds. Games like Doodlejump and Angry Birds weren't anything revolutionary, but they were at least simple little time killers you could pay a few bucks for and you got a whole experience to slowly make your way through on the train or whatever. But it seems to model just doesn't work, or at least the cash cow turned out to be virtual casinos/gacha. Yahtzee Croshaw did a video discussing what went wrong with mobile gaming that I thought was pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30qZSEnI9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30qZSEnI9Q
- wing-_-nuts 3y agoAnyone know if there's a curated list of non-exploitative games on android? The only one I've been seriously thinking about buying is Slay the Spire.
- solardev 3y agoSteam has thousands of good games and hundreds of excellent games. Android has, what, less than dozen good games?