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Misty
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I wanted to talk about a serious thing, its called "the games cantina cancer". I am at heart an anarchist but sometimes anarchy can be taken too far, for example is the case with the steam games library, they literally have no quality control and literally accept the scum of the earth games, games so bad it makes YoYoGames Sandbox games look good.
I call it "cantina" in reference to the star wars cantina, it is literally a hive of scummy games, psychotic egoist devs who even threaten to sue some people for criticizing their garbage games, 12 year old kids who literally buy unity example projects and resell them as actual games, basically unedited, steam has turned into a ghetto with literally no quality control whatsoever...
The games are so bad it literally causes psychological effects from browsing the garbage heap, it causes me to feel depressed and occassionally even suicidal, when I look at these games I lose complete faith in humanity sometimes. It even seems like an addiction, like I can't get enough of the lols of and the nightmare these games are, even if it makes me sick to my stomach to do so, I can't help but keep scrolling, its like an unending abyss...
I don't want to be a total fascist but steam needs to get out of the gutter and stand up tall, not letting itself be used as a toilet or dumpster for people to pollute it with their shameless trash, let me clarify my thoughts even further...
I don't believe in excessive fascism or vetting, I don't believe in Steam Greenlight, I think its ridiculous to expect indie developers to have to pay 5000 dollars or raise hundreds of fans just to release a game, that seems overly censory and fascistic, but I do think steam needs to at least implement a rudimentary level of quality control, I mean some of these games are litterally big rigs quality or worse, you shouldn't have to make a game of the year or be the next big game to be accepted, but at least implement a rudimentary form of quality control.
Overall, the game industry is collapsing as we speak, all the AAA titles are losing faith, it's like a scummy cantina of shameless devs who don't care about their fans and make everything into microtransactions, now indie devs are following the same cantina mindset, they have zero ethics whatsoever, the problem gets even worse than that...
Some indie games which are not that good have a cultish following of loyal fans, many games that are actually good, but have one or two flaws, don't get much attention while mediocre games can somehow get very positive reviews, even the critics don't seem to have any sanity or rational thinking behind their reviewing methods, any modernistic mediocrity tickles them slightly they seem to give high ratings, its insane. That combined with the market being oversaturated with trash, as well as over-praised mediocrity and delusional, hysterical seeming reviewers makes it hard to make money as a startup, that in addition with AAA companies having zero ethics whatsoever...
I want to make a website called the "Cantina" but its an ironic parody name where I only put high quality games on it.
For those of you who live in a cave, here is the reference:
also it feels like a literal tumor is growing inside my body when i browse this cancer
this is not even new, its cyclical, it happened in the 80's and Shigeru Miyamoto put an end to it with Nintendo Quality Seal of assurace, in fact games of that era were so trash they hired Miyamoto and he saved the game industry from total collapse. I mean have you seen it lately, its like a joke, the new "Soulja boy console" is like the icing on the cake, the cherry on top of this cesspool, it just seems perfectly fitting and destined, like a garbage heap being christened with a fine glaze of toxic sludge, i guess one word that would summarize everything that's going on would be either "pathetic" or "invertebrates"
I call it "cantina" in reference to the star wars cantina, it is literally a hive of scummy games, psychotic egoist devs who even threaten to sue some people for criticizing their garbage games, 12 year old kids who literally buy unity example projects and resell them as actual games, basically unedited, steam has turned into a ghetto with literally no quality control whatsoever...
The games are so bad it literally causes psychological effects from browsing the garbage heap, it causes me to feel depressed and occassionally even suicidal, when I look at these games I lose complete faith in humanity sometimes. It even seems like an addiction, like I can't get enough of the lols of and the nightmare these games are, even if it makes me sick to my stomach to do so, I can't help but keep scrolling, its like an unending abyss...
I don't want to be a total fascist but steam needs to get out of the gutter and stand up tall, not letting itself be used as a toilet or dumpster for people to pollute it with their shameless trash, let me clarify my thoughts even further...
I don't believe in excessive fascism or vetting, I don't believe in Steam Greenlight, I think its ridiculous to expect indie developers to have to pay 5000 dollars or raise hundreds of fans just to release a game, that seems overly censory and fascistic, but I do think steam needs to at least implement a rudimentary level of quality control, I mean some of these games are litterally big rigs quality or worse, you shouldn't have to make a game of the year or be the next big game to be accepted, but at least implement a rudimentary form of quality control.
Overall, the game industry is collapsing as we speak, all the AAA titles are losing faith, it's like a scummy cantina of shameless devs who don't care about their fans and make everything into microtransactions, now indie devs are following the same cantina mindset, they have zero ethics whatsoever, the problem gets even worse than that...
Some indie games which are not that good have a cultish following of loyal fans, many games that are actually good, but have one or two flaws, don't get much attention while mediocre games can somehow get very positive reviews, even the critics don't seem to have any sanity or rational thinking behind their reviewing methods, any modernistic mediocrity tickles them slightly they seem to give high ratings, its insane. That combined with the market being oversaturated with trash, as well as over-praised mediocrity and delusional, hysterical seeming reviewers makes it hard to make money as a startup, that in addition with AAA companies having zero ethics whatsoever...
I want to make a website called the "Cantina" but its an ironic parody name where I only put high quality games on it.
For those of you who live in a cave, here is the reference:
also it feels like a literal tumor is growing inside my body when i browse this cancer
this is not even new, its cyclical, it happened in the 80's and Shigeru Miyamoto put an end to it with Nintendo Quality Seal of assurace, in fact games of that era were so trash they hired Miyamoto and he saved the game industry from total collapse. I mean have you seen it lately, its like a joke, the new "Soulja boy console" is like the icing on the cake, the cherry on top of this cesspool, it just seems perfectly fitting and destined, like a garbage heap being christened with a fine glaze of toxic sludge, i guess one word that would summarize everything that's going on would be either "pathetic" or "invertebrates"
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