Those numbers look better (more evenly distributed) than what I would expect with just about any marketplace of media/art.
This report also only looks at premium games, meaning free-to-play giants like Valve’s Counter-Strike are left out
Yeah let’s just not factor in the widely successful child casinos they established
I mean this is going to be the same with any type of media, like movies, books, music, etc. There are a lot of people in the world making stuff all the time and the vast majority of it doesn’t find a large audience. There are thousands or maybe even millions of songs on Spotify with less than 10 listens. I remember reading somewhere once that if an internet streamer regularly has more than 12 viewers they’re in the top 1%.
I’ll quote the sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon, “ninety percent of everything is crud.” He said that to defend science fiction literature, noting that there were so many stories of poor quality. He made a comparison to detective fiction saying that everyone remembers The Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep, but no one remembers the thousands of other stories written at the same time. That’s just how it goes.
I actually enjoy finding little unknown indie games on steam though
Judo was created within a forest of other martial arts in post war Japan and rose above them. Then BJJ came out of that as the only offshoot you’ve ever heard of (if you’ve ever heard of it)
90% of everything is crud
Web 2.0? I call that MMOCRUD
Honestly I assume it’s even worse than that if that’s their methodology
The standard multiplier here is 35, so this research assumes one Steam review is worth 35 sales at a game’s current listed price, though you can also use a more “conservative” 20 or “generous” 50 in the report’s impressive graphs.
Small games probably get more reviews per purchase than larger games.
Well, that’s unsurprising. As with most things, it’s a power law distribution… But even without statistics, we all know there a handful of bestseller games (triple-As, or simply popular, often more expensive), a big pile of “regular games” (good but just less successful) and an unyielding stream of slop.
And the result is that the bestsellers outshines everything else in revenue, and the slop outshines everything in sheer amount.
This would just happen naturally anyway, unless you were actively preventing it. But having a large platform like steam a recommendation system for advertising amplifies the effect a bit further.
and an unyielding stream of slop.
If anything, I am sure the distribution got funnier once Steam let porn in
I don’t have a problem with adult games per se. But you gotta admit that a lot of them are just low quality slop. And it’s not even just porn, steam is full or simply bad games, pure plain slop.
And with AI it will get worse.
I think porn is just straight up an even more extreme distribution of the garbage to not garbage ratio. There can be such a thing as a good adult game. But I think the public will just buy gacha pornography while AI churns out the game equivalent to porn tapes like its the 1980s.
Does anyone actually want to play bejeweled while jerk off?
The existence of Huniepop answered that question already.
What does that mean?
i spent a lot of time on newgrounds before learning there was porn you didn’t have to work for
when i was doing my work-life orientation from school to a hardware store, they had me in a hidden corner doing computer stuff so i did my work fast and then played porn newgrounds games and read screenshot let’s plays on the something awful forums.
I hope not
And with AI it will get worse.
That ship has sailed.
I have a friend who does review/that curator thing on steam specifically for porn games, It’s a fucking nightmare because of him my recommendations is fucked, every slop appears to me like: One friend is enjoying this game.
There’s a lot of AI slop in there already.
you can turn off adult games entirely, i forget whether you can disable friend-related recommendations or set the floor to more than one.
i forget whether you can disable friend-related recommendations or set the floor to more than one.
I doubt you can disable it and the floor doesn’t make much difference because he is the only one that buy games constantly.
There is various Mature Content Filtering that’s pretty granular. That should let you disable most.
I had to enable all of it to see some of the games I want to engage with.
the feature i’m imagining would be to make it so more than one friend would have to be “enjoying this game” to bother you with it, so it would make a difference unless you have multiple pervert friends
You can disable the adult games in steam for sure. Maybe some slip through but there is an option
Doesn’t Steam at least list AI use? Or is that just voluntary disclosure that nobody does?
There’s AI slops without disclosure for sure. How the disclosure works I don’t really know but I think is the author that fills it, steam probably does force it with reports or automatic detection too but these low quality slops with 10-100 reviews they don’t really care.
Nowadays if you go to the “new releases” tab on the steam store page, it’ll be like 30% hentai games.
Asset flips
Asset flips
Yeah, there’s like a ton of slop
I got steam keys for random free steam games and they were all strange trash I’d be too scared to run for fear it’s got malware; heck, the only posts in their steam discussion pages are people (I say people, I mean like one or two posts) laughing about how they ALSO got the game for free from steam keys for random games
There’s games on there that make you ask ‘why does this exist?’
