And as I said in there, those are extreme outliers and are not respective of the entire community whatsoever, just like the things I have issues with here, which mainly are peddling conspiracy theories about journalists (in particular one who tends to write 40+ articles a month, none of them about EGS at all) and what I would note as a fairly heartless take from people when it comes to indie devs.
PC Gamer has definitely had a pro-EGS editorial stance, so questioning the integrity of an article like this is fine in my eyes. Frankly I don't see how you can be pro-EGS whilst simultaneously believing what Steam is doing to be a bad thing; there
has to be some level of cognitive dissonance there and if people want to discuss that then fine.
And what are the heartless takes? If someone's saying "fuck 'em, they deserve to starve," then, yeah, that's heartless, but simply declaring the reality of the situation is anything but. Some games will fail, and some games are simply uninteresting to the wider populace; as long as the supply is as high as it is right now Honestly I think the notion that this isa problem that can be 'solved' instead of merely made better is much more harmful to indie devs than a more realistic approach because it creates a false sense of hope that some higher force can fix all their issues for them.
If I look on the main page under risk of rain 2 it says Early Access, Roguelike, Co-op, Multiplayer. If you search for that title the list view does not show that without a mouse over.
I don't think that would be a bad idea, but how would that improve discoverability? You're still going to see the same games, you'll just have a slightly higher chance of clicking on them.
Will it eventually stop or will every thread about anything to do with Steam at all keep being this garbage "Steam can do no wrong and Sweeney is the devil" shit?
I mean, at least keep it to instances of Sweeney actually being a devil.
Steam can do wrong, but considering the alternatives the claims the notion that this is a massively pressing issue is hard to take particularly seriously, especially when so much of it ignores the realities of the situation at hand. Like the user I replied to above has gone on record as saying there's "no issues" with PC gaming, yet in this thread Steam is suddenly a 'bad guy' when it comes to indie developers. With things as heated as they are I really can't fault people for not taking things at face value as much anymore.
Please do not speak to me again.
If you want the community to be better then just ignore him instead of posting stuff like this.