New Steam Game "The Forgotten Sprites" illegally includes DOOM2.WAD - Sensationalist Headlines

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205174/302b35f8-a914-46fb-a9f9-899901d9f3e8/image.png The Forgotten Sprites on Steam It's literally a shitty doom mod using GZDOOM, which is why it contains the DOOM2.WAD. A new low for steam "curation."

They've could've just used the FreeDooM WAD. This isn't just laziness, it's also stupidity.

It's that easy to get a game on Steam, huh?

From the trailer it looks like Chex Quest with worse art but also edgy with lots of blood effects Absolute garbage

I wouldn't say this is even close to being "a new low" There have been games released on steam without the .exe needed to run the game, and games released with zero files at all At least this is a 'game'

Yup! You just pay the $100 SteamDirect fee, shoot in your tax + bank info, and you're good to go! Steamworks Partner Program

Quite a few games that have recently popped up on Steam are Game Maker tutorial games with the sprites changed. And people apparently buy them "ironically".

bought it, thanks

Appears the game is gone from Steam.

Steam has 0 curation, the amount of games getting added is insane. Honestly greenlight was a better setup than what we've got now...

With the amount shit still getting on Steam, it feels like the $100 entry wasn't enough. Because you know people are delusional enough to pay that thinking that they'll make thousands, making the $100 completely worth it to them.

I thought you had to get a certain amount of votes on greenlight

Nope, greenlight is long gone. It's just $100 now that it takes to get a game on Steam, once it's been 'reviewed'.

You'd think they could just get some interns at $11 just to go through their submissions, smaller companies with virtual stores can do this....

I had been working on a game on Steam Direct but it didn't get much attention so I have been giving serious thought to doing what these others are doing and just flooding the store with simple asset flip games. Sure its a shitty thing to do but at least I could return some sort of profit trying to compete with these other crapy asset flips.

You'd make more working a minimum wage job

Steam desperately requires a better system to go through all of this bullshit. Another issue being the gargantuan amount of games on the platform to begin with and no one definitively knowing how good or how bad each one is as well as there potentially being tons of hidden gems that not enough people know about while having some games that too many people know about.

Come the fuck on steam at least greenlight had some kind of human input, this is just a mess "but algorithms!"

I already work a minimum paying job, I tried Steam Direct as a way to help.

I feel for you, but considering we're already at peak market saturation of shitty asset flip games, it's probably not worth your time.

Speaking of, I seriously can't imagine indie dev projects getting much audience without scatter-shotting their work onto other platforms outside Steam like itch and indieDB these days. I've at least seen people grow a base with their games getting stirred around Greenlight which made things a bit easier but now you're completely on your own.

It's a shame how flawed the Greenlight system was. If Valve actually put actually effort into giving resources on curation and such, it would have actually benefited serious game developers and consumers to have a nice selection of games since Greenlight was a nice way to take notice of potentially good games on paper

Honestly $100 is too little. 1000$ i feel could solve the issue of people just shoving shit out onto steam, its more of an investment and could potentially stop people from going "lol only $100, lets put this shit on steam" and uploading their cancer.

The increasing amount of trash, asset flip, reskinned tutorial results and now this...... its getting more and more obvious that Steam Direct was moreso "if you want to bribe someone to get on Steam, bribe us instead of some 3rd party" rather than actual quality control. though some fault does lie in the playerbase since there ARE people who "ironically" buy cheap trash for gag gifts.

Looks like it's been taken down.

The fee isn't the issue, it could be $100,000,000 or $0 The issue is the lack of any vetting process at all. Even greenlight had SOME filtration.