Valve Says It Will Now Allow Everything on Steam Unless It's Illegal or "Straight-up Trolling"

[Chazore]

Hiku said:

Well that's why they are deciding what you can or cannot buy in their store.
It's their prerogative where they chose to set the bar. In this case they chose to set the bar very low. Allowing you to buy virtually anything.

Any game that they wouldn't have allowed on their store would always be purchasable somewhere else. But Steam doesn't really have any real competition, and this decision takes away another potential incentive for customers to chose a competitor's service.
I get what you're saying. You want to be able to buy as many games as possible because you want the deciding factor to be your own judgement. It's just the way you said it.

As for me, I think I'm on the side of more quality control. Not for my own sake because I think I can properly judge if a game is for me or not. But rather for people who are not particularly good at it. Though at the same time, I would also like the bar to be set rather low, because one of the things I liked about PS2 was that it had so much of everything. And I found some nice gems in obscure titles.

Except they are limiting it to "trolling/illegal", and not "everything".

They set the bar lower than most, and even then, most out there are subjectively choosing what they think is "quality". 

They have apparent competition from the likes of GoG (but then again, that storefront blocked a popular dev's puzzle game based on the grounds of it looking like a "mobile game"), B.net, Beth.net, Uplay, origin etc. if you think those aren't all within competing with one another, then you should take that up with others on the forum here.

I'm not sure how denying more games, more "selected" games from a small group (yes, it will always be small no matter what universe or angle, because there are millions more consumers than there are those that can serve and judge) would be better for all of us (myself included) and cause me to stay with Steam and not choose another's storefront.

I already see myself not using Origin, because all it has is Battlefield, the only series I'm interested in at this point. EA did a bang up premium job of killing off C&C, Theme Hospital, Sims, SIm City, Dungeon Keeper, Battlefront and more for me.

I hardly bother with Uplay due to buying games on Steam requiring yet another client to run, and even then Ubisoft games come loaded with extra DRM that bogs down my overall performance. I'm essentially buying higher priced games from them, only to net myself a worse off experience, and a neutered one at that. 

I don't use Beth.net because what they have on there is found on Steam, and Steam has built in mod support and is just better than beth/net

I don't use Epic's client because I dislike what Epic have become and who they are now controlled by.

I hardly use GoG because it doesn't really have the games I want, let alone mod support, built in forums and a vastly better wishlist/gifting service. 

 

yes, Steam has garbage, but to me, so do a lot of the other storefronts, and a lot of those storefronts have lesser features, while also at times asking for money money for a lesser experience. 

If I am to ever pay for a Ubisoft game at it's highest price, and use it on a beastly PC, I expect the Royal party treatment, not a watered down experience for more money. That is never how that should work, yet it does with Ubisoft countless times. 

 

For me, I wouldn't want to set a bar for quality control, because I know that others out there would disagree with it.