The Jimquisition: YOLO Army
Steam Greenlight was designed to let customers vote on the games that looked most appealing, that they most wanted to buy.
It was a noble idea and an interesting way to allow indie games a chance at recognition.
Unfortunately, the well has been poisoned and the idea perverted to allow all manner of unwanted shite onto Steam. There is one particular vector of infection that must be taken to task.
It's a "publisher" that calls itself YOLO Army.
Comments (2)
I think a mouth hole would break the look, how about drilling some venting?
I figure it's more likely that you'll see my comment here than on your Youtube page. This is in response to your comment about people playing devil's advocate by saying the river of shit that flows through Greenlight isn't a problem. The fact that shitty games make it onto steam isn't a problem in itself. If these crap games were just buried underneath more crap games and never seen by any actual users, it wouldn't be a big deal. It would be like releasing a shitty game and putting it on Amazon, or any other digital store - no one would see it and it would die a quick, unnoticed death. But you're saying these games somehow actually make it onto Steam's front page? That would be a big problem if it were true. I've personally never seen any of these crap games making it to my front page, however. Is there a "featured from Greenlight" section of Steam that I'm overlooking? Or maybe your featured page looks very different from mine because of all the crappy Greenlit games you buy? Greenlight was supposed to be a temporary solution to a scalability issue that Valve had - when it was implemented Valve employees had to manually add games to Steam in what was apparently a somewhat tedious process. Greenlight was their way of asking which games they should spend their time on. Nowadays, I think they want to replace the whole thing with a completely automated process that just approves everything, and leave it up to community curators and suggestion algorithms to generate front pages and lists of good stuff. I feel like the problem here comes from wildly mismatched expectations - you still view Steam as this prestigious store front that only a select few excellent games can make it on to, and Greenlight is the community curated path to victory, where Valve views Steam as more of a giant, searchable store/payment processor and wants to distance themselves from the responsibility of highlighting their favorites.