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

[Chazore]

Hiku said: 

The good thing about setting the bar this low means there's very little room for games being excluded for reasons you don't agree with. The downside is the increased chance for some people to spend their money poorly, and I guess in some cases there's an argument for complacency from developers to do better if their competition is getting away with bare minimum effort.

I don't know if there's an ideal solution that's just better for everyone. But I think from Valve's perspective, this was probably a safer decision on their part.

Really that would fall under the consumer for not using the tools made available to them for free (like youtube, site reviews, word of mouth etc). Devs do have to do a better job than their competition, which in turn means their competition would have to work much harder. These days though we're getting more and more devs complaining about spotlight issues, even for those that do less effort than others, so that isn't really a factor as much these days. Why try harder when you can point at the Steam store and complain that you're not on the front page 24/7 making FN levels of cash?. 

There is no one wins all solution, but this is about as close as we can get. They are still making more tools for the public to make use of, so that we can still filter what we want and do not want to see from the storefront. 

 

Their previous decision when going against VN's definitely earned them a lot of flak, so you cannot please everyone in that instance. The crowd that doesn't care or want them on the storefront cannot win, but at the same time, the other crowd wants those VN's from and center for all to see, no matter the age, and that's why we'll be getting these tools, so that both sides can win, rather than one.