Guise of the Wolf touts itself as a “mystery action adventure”, an unsubstantiated claim if ever there was one. Besides navigating endless tunnels, there are only five instances where you will be tasked with doing something different. Yeah, we counted.
Avoiderdragon: It can be said that the gaming market has a certain standard when it comes to the quality of products. However, there are times when something sub-par slips through the filters and is sold at a higher price than it’s truly worth. Maybe it’s due to more developers coming in with their own power to put out games for sale, so there’s bound to be some misses to go with the hits. Guise of the Wolf is one hell of a miss, and it could have been better served by staying invisible. Alas, it did get a wrong kind of marketing that made it known.
While Steam’s store is known for offering many fantastic games, there are also games of unbelievably poor quality that go beyond the subjective bounds of personal taste and display a definitive lack of effort. Allowing these practically unfinished titles to be published on the platform creates a library of shovelware which lowers the reputation of Steam’s digital catalog.
Does it really matter? You don't have to buy them. It's not like it brings down the quality of the really amazing titles Steam offers.
it can be a problem if steam becomes flooded with poorly-made, sub-par games and actual good games are lost among those, as is the case with android/iphone app store.
I think they should raise their standards a little more for greenlight games and it would be perfect
Greenlight is going away. plus, i agree with Snookies12, options are there. if you want to buy them, do it. it's the power of choice you dont see on console platforms.
and Valve is trying to help small indie dev's getting their games out in the open. i dont see a problem with that.
again, you dont have to buy anything. what you may call shovelware and bad, some people like.
Some people call early access a waste and bad for the industry, i love it. bought 5 games in early access. so what you think may not be what others think. there is 70 million subs after all on steam.
Plus, half of these "shoverlware" items are better than most triple A 60 dollar games. like assetto corsa, or day z.
It's not about caring, it's about giving developers the opportunity to put shovelware on the service.
We deal enough with big time games that run like shovelware, now we also have real shovelware coming.
Steam use to be about quality, and now they tried to do something good (Greenlight), but it turned corrupt and now there a number of users that spend their money in vein on the product. (Please don't say they should have researched because for shovelware u can't always find what u need, and biased reviews aren't scarce with them...since most feedback come from forums...which could be friends of friends of devs...or people that don't want to admit that they wasted their money.
I would love to see some heavy moderation. I do not want this to turn into the Google Play store...or even AppStore.
It's too bad though, some indie devs don't deserve the bad rap that profiteers are looking to do here.
I bet we see Flappy Bird/Fish coming to steam soon!
Steam introduced Tags for their game library so those should be helpful in sifting through all those titles.
I just wish Steam offered a way to filter out the Early Access games and software that are not games at all.
I don't see the problem here. Steam isn't responsible for these games. There is a review system in place now so the feedback should weed crap games out without Steam having to police bad games.
Valve controls the platform. They clearly don't test any of the games that they put on Steam, even though they claim they do, because there are tons of literally broken, horrible games on Steam. Every platform holder is responsible for upholding a certain level of quality for the games they allow to be sold on their platform. The review system you speak of requires people to be ripped off by bad games first before they can review them, that is not a solution.
deal with it. nobody is forcing you to buy anything. what you dont like others may like, so stick to your 60 dollar games if you want, fact is a lot of these early access games are better optimized than most triple a games and even better.
banished is better than simcity, day z is better than any zombie game out there. assetto corsa is better than gran turismo. fact? no. see what i did there?
The PC is a platform. Steam is not. It's a market place and community. This is like blaming the Playstation Store because Aliens Colonial Marines sucked.
TotalBiscuit comes under-fire once again as Guise of the Wolf developer FUN Creators places a copyright claim on his video.
Will looks at what has happened, what Fun Creators have to gain, and if is possible it was an impostor some claim.
It is unfair to see so much hate towards one more who more than anything is just trying to make a living. If you don't like what he does just don't watch him or anything. No need for all these personal attacks.
It's just a shame that his medium of work happens to take place in a barren wasteland called the internet. No friendlies at all out here, just bandits.
Game developers seem to be getting too big for there shoes sometimes, not ever taking criticism. It's exactly the same as WarZ all over again. The whole point of a critique is to learn where you went wrong and improve on it.
Also TotalBiscuit has nothing to gain by "Blackmailing" them. It just sounds like Fun Creator are just ashamed of their actions and trying to cover up their mistake.
I would agree—if TotalBiscuit was performing critiques on these games. These are not critiques, however, they are reviews. I understand he constantly reiterates they are not reviews calling them “first impressions”, yet I'm sure data exists showing his videos greatly influence the purchasing decisions of his viewers. If you're creating a video directly affecting consumer awareness about a product based exclusively on if the game works technically on the PC and opinion—it is a review.
A one or two hour “lets play” pointing out every issue he feels is wrong with the game without the slightest understanding of game design or artistic design is not a critique. TotalBiscuit is incapable of and lacks the tools of understanding required for in depth critique. He says it himself, he's there to entertain. He will even us phrases like “highly recommend” and “stay away from” afterwards. Not a critique. I would even say hiding behind “it's not a review” is a dodge of responsibility on his part after the above phrases.
This is not in defense of developers filing copywrite on his videos. TotalBiscuit has every right to do what he is doing and should be allowed to do so—but let's call it for what it is.
Ah yeah. Nice way to avoid a duplicate story, just set it as an opinion piece and rehash information someone else got out first. http://n4g.com/news/1457382...
I would disagree. While it does share the same sources, the last quarter to third goes into opinion that your article does not have.
I do however apologize if you feel I have plagiarized your content. That was not the aim, nor did I look at your article while writing it.
The appropriate thing to do would have been to reference the story found on N4G as a citation, and then go into your opinion underneath that summary. I'm surprised you got this through.
Why would he quote something he didn't read?
Your site is not the master source of the Internet.
He gets around 200k viewers per video and youtube pays $1.50 - $4 per 1000 views!
So he roughly gets paid $600 per video and he has 2400 vidoes thats over $1000000 from making youtube videos...
My heart bleeds for him -.-
