But how to show them every little game.
Some of the devs, who complain on Twitter.... maybe their games just arent good.
When the visual novel that looks like someone just started drawing art isnt featured, those devs get mad.
Not every game is a Supraland or Bright Memory. Some games are just the Mighty No. 9 of games and even though the devs might think their game is the next Hollow Knight, maybe it isnt or maybe the market of such games is already far too populated.
You could just compare Kitsune Games new Metroidvania game and just compare screenshots to other Metroidvanias:
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Somehow the devs always expect maybe their mediocre games or maybe games that dont have a huge audience to be the next Indie Darling and be shown front page on every Steam page, but the reality is, some of those games just arent.... good and can not stand out besides maybe the 40 other ones that at least have some interesting art style, were praised for its deep story or got popular by word of mouth.
How soon after that will they be whining that they're hidden away in some front page abyss of the epic store?
There's plenty of things to criticise Valve for, but this is an utterly absurd and baseless claim.
Eh, I don't think that it's a big deal, there are plenty enough of them that speak publicly. Though it is often true that for their sakes, it would be better if they didn't.
Valve started working on machine learning in 2016 if not before. They introduced machine learning anti-cheat for CS:GO, then for Dota 2 and they finally introduced it for Steam this year. And you can look what Valve did last year without Epic here
Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Steam - 2018 Year in Review
At the end of each year, we like to take time to assess the work we've done over the past twelve months and do some planning for the future. This is an informal, internal process and normally isn't the type of thing we'd publicize. But as we started to look at the work we put into Steam in 2018...steamcommunity.com
this is how it comes across, yeah
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Valve started working on machine learning in 2016 if not before. They introduced machine learning anti-cheat for CS:GO, then for Dota 2 and they finally introduced it for Steam this year. And you can look what Valve did last year without Epic here
Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Steam - 2018 Year in Review
At the end of each year, we like to take time to assess the work we've done over the past twelve months and do some planning for the future. This is an informal, internal process and normally isn't the type of thing we'd publicize. But as we started to look at the work we put into Steam in 2018...
That is why I used the Kitsune Games game last page compared to other Metroidvanias that were released lately or even a few years ago on Steam that, artistically look far more interesting.
Sorry, but this really doesnt look interesting when games like Hollow Knight, Bloodstained, Rabi Ribi, Touhou Luna Nights, Shantae etc. are out:
Lets just take the storepage of that game as an example and how I feel:
-All screenshots on the storepage look the same. There doesnt seem to be any other setting judging by that.
-The trailer is the same. I see just one setting and every room looks really really similar.
-The artstyle looks really outdated and something we have seen since 8 years in hundreds of indie games.
-The banner doesnt look interesting and not enough shading. Everything looks flat:
-The storepage itself only shows Singleplayer and controller. No achievements. No cloud saves. No other languages listed (yet).
So now after seeing that storepage, the game just doesnt look interesting.
Here is the storepage itself:
This game doesnt stand out at all from far better, visual looking games or a better looking storepage.
Edit: And watching the trailer, while in other games you might see unique boss design, unique enemy design, traversal, some special moves, this trailer just screams generic. I see the same moves over and over again against the same enemies over and over again with the essentially same backdrop over and over again.
1st parties dnot do marketing of all games launching on their console though, which would (sadly) be the case of most of the indie games.
Hooly shit. Galyonkin is truly one of the smuggest bastards in the industry, this wasn't the first time he makes a fool of himself in social media regarding Steam. He really seems to revel in the toxicity around this whole ordeal and doesn't mind fanning the flames.
