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Total Biscuit - Valve is missleading people
Elmberry
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Total Biscuit talks about how Valve is missleading people about release dates and other things which could be much better. New titles are "drowned" by the amount of old ones on the front page of steam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLNh5HPbQPo&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ
I 100% agree with him. I have felt the same way for a long time now. I have lots of games on steam but I wished it could be much better than this. Anyone know if something better is on its way, as I have been quite tired of steam lately. Maybe Google or another great company can do something better. 
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Seriously, who has issues keeping up with the release dates of the few games they are watching?!?
I haven't heard this complaint until Companies like Trion decided that they were going to take on Steam and now we are inundated with complaints about Steam...same with the "its impossible to find indie games on Steam because there are so many" BS. If there are so many, how are they impossible to find?!?
Its like the cant keep up BS, if you are interested in an upcoming game, place it ON YOUR WISHLIST and bam!
...done and done.
Whats doubly worse is, if you are so looking forward to a game why don't you remember when its coming out? And why would you be only looking at information from one source?
I like Origin. The client is written using Qt Framework so its stylish AND fast unlike steam's client that just have to self-update each time i run it and then boot for 20+ seconds. I don't have that issue with Origin, and if I have the option, I use EA's platform, not Steam.
Not to mention that Steam has become indy game trashcan lately. I don't like Minecraft and the likes and I never will. Simple as that.
Watch the full vid please. Greenlight actually sums up for a small fraction of top page games. Its mostly publishers dumping their old games there.
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to be honest who the fuck cares..
You seriously going to switch because of something like that?
Here is Valves view on the subject of game distribution. Put more control into the hands of the developers.
Thus...if you have a problem with a release date, it aint Steam, its the developers.
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Just did a quick sweep and every game released in the last month showing on Gamestop, that is being sold on Steam IS listed on Steams New Releases list. Then checked to see what games are coming out in the next month on Gamestop, those being sold on Steam are all listed on their coming soon tab and did not see a date showing differently than Gamestops.
Guess you need to learn how to use Steam.
Who cares what TB has to say anymore? He's a complete prat who has become one of the most insufferable know-it-all's in video game journalism, right next to that moron Jim Sterling (though Jim did earn some points with me during the whole Aliens: Colonial Marines disaster).
I have no problem keeping up with new releases on Steam whatsoever. It takes all of thirty seconds to scroll through the list of titles released that day to see if anything interesting is included. As usual, TB is taking a minor issue and blowing it up into something much bigger than it is.
Edit: As far as the original release date? It's right at the top of the game's store page, plain as day for all to see. So that point is completely moot.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
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Lol, I said that about him about 5 years ago when he got into a flame war with a dozen or so people posting on his Youtube channel. He was trying to tell them they were playing MMOs wrong and should either learn or stop playing.
Such a douche canoe.
Goat Simulator is coming out April 1st. That is this tuesday, that is 2 days from now.
Hope that helps.
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Except your factoids ring kinda false.. I used to run a Google Adsense account on a site and my own tests on it pointed to 0.5 to 5-10 cents per click depending on ad displayed.
As for TB himself... his reviews are informative enough and some of his vids are entertaining and as far as his living status... well using the example of BohemianEagle whom has around 200k subs and is comfortably living off that I can say quite easily that TB with a order higher may indeed be very well off.
Actually he is right. TB is part of a collective that handles the legal side of things. It works differently than being independent.
that being said, it is sad to see Valveboys attacking someone for wanting a simple change that keeps decade ole shovelware garbage from killing exposure of new indie games by hard working devs.
Doesn't the guy have his own SC2 team. If that is not getting rich off of YT than I don't know what is.
That's how much it makes Google, not Youtubers.
Michael Buckley (celebrity chatter show) said when he topped 300k subscribers and was averaging that many views per video that he was making around 30K per month(he was doing 6 vids per week). That was a few years after the New York Times did an article about him when he had 180k subs and was making 18k per month.
I agree with you. And his NEW RELEASES rant is also pointless. He does realize you can scroll that list, right?
I mean, are people that lazy or something?
Except for the fact that like I said, it takes all of thirty seconds (usually less) to scroll through that day's releases. Furthermore new releases also usually get space at the giant, scrolling banner ad at the top of the front page, with a big picture, listed price, and everything. To the right of that is another giant ad for whatever the mid-week or weekend sale is, and below that is the daily deal.
TB is complaining about nothing, per usual.
Edit: And oh yeah, there's the HUGE ad space at the very top, which AAA releases usually get for a couple of days. You know, the one advertising the Square-Enix sale right now. That gigantic thing, which even a legally blind person would have a hard time not seeing.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
#IStandWithVic
I see someone never worked in retail and had no crash course in marketing 101.
Steam offers metacritic and customer reviews on the actually interface, so I take it people can't even bother reading the store page to see what people say about a game? Have people actually gotten that lazy that they need a system that shovel feeds them what is popular....notice I didn't say "good".
Gabe is trying to make Steam an open platform and is getting criticized....lol, sounds like someone is butthurt cause they couldn't buy Gabe's favor and considering that Total Biscuits viewership is dwindling I wouldn't doubt one of the games that has slipped off the front page was one he was earning monetization on.
This is nothing more than a hungry YouTuber crying cause he is becoming obsolete. Someone needs to tell him he is going to have to go back to work at McDonalds cause companies aren't gonna cater to his type so his viewers can find games easier.
He does, but he's definetly not rich, he spends lots of money for other people. Having a sc2 costs him a lot of his money and time. He deserves way more than he makes, guess where would he spend that money if he made more ? Gaming industry, probably would organize even more tournaments FROM HIS OWN POCKET and would expand his sc2 team or add another game division to his team.
What the hell are you talking about...you either didn't watch or didn't get the video. Quite frankly the discussion in this thread also seems to have flown over your head.
I would rather Steam not become a marketing juggernaut.
The main appeal of Steam is that it allows indies to have more exposure then they would OTHERWISE. So two items with that point.
1. we dont want a gate keeper deciding what games are 'good' and which games are not. That is for gamers to decide.
2. we dont want game development infected too much by marketing. For many AAA games the marketing budget is HIGHER than the development budget.
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