By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
JEMC said:
caffeinade said:

Steam's issues are not necessarily real issues.
Most of the problems people have with Steam can more or less be solved. with marketing!
I am not sure Valve has the social skills to pull that off though.

Steam still needs a UI overhaul and algorithm teaks and such.
That is a bit beyond my point.

Most problems can be solved, yes, but in my opinion Valve needs to start investing in their store, not marketing, and the first thing they should do is hire more people to review all the game submits to get rid of the trash that flood the store. Once they have that under control, the rest of the problems can be easily solved.

But the biggest problem right now is that Valve either doesn't see that as a problem or, much worse than that, has decided to not face the problem head on and instead is trying to solve it with small patches that just don't work.

Well there is at least one Valve employee who appears to want to remove titles.

I don't think it is just as easy as hiring more people.
Valve would need to consider a long term plan, and where those employees fit in, five or so years down the road.
Is it worth hiring, training and housing ten, twenty or thirty new employees if you plan to make them redundant in a year or so.
Is it even ethical to do so.

I am not sure Valve has the capacity for new employees where they are, right now.
I'm pretty sure Valve is in the midst of moving to a newer much larger office, or still settling into the new office space.
Or something like that.

Doing some searching, it looks like they moved late September.