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

[JEMC]

rolltide101x said:

JEMC said:

It's funny how you're contradicting youself in the same post. Either everything is allowed or not, but not both things.

And, by the way, most of us are against this new policy because it will mean a lot more shovelware on the store.

Actually I am not at all. If it were all or nothing then explain consoles? Consoles wade through the games that want to be on their platform and (mostly) get rid of shovelware. 

 

Content that some may find offensive SHOULD NOT be blocked

Content that is not finished SHOULD be blocked. 

But you are. Shovelware is some kind of content, like it or not, so getting rid of any kind of active curation (they'll review a game after a complaint has been filled) will only make it easier for this kind of content to appear on the store, making it worse.

Consoles wade through (nice expression that I didn't know! Thanks :) ) shitty games because they do curate the games for their consoles. Devs/publishers ask for permission to release their games and Nintendo, Sony and MSoft decide, after inspecting it, if they give the green light or not. But that curating is what Valve will get rid of, so as long as someone pays the $100 needed to publish a game on Steam, they'll be able to launch their games on the platform.

That's why being happy with this change and asking for no shovelware are almost mutually exclusive, it's impossible to have both things at the same time.