Greenlight Redlight

[The Random One]

Except
a) due an added fee of 100$, most fake and joke entries (which are shown there) don't exist anymore.
b) The War Z was never on Greenlight because the developer already had a game on Steam, skipping the whole process right to release

Bad research turned an average joke into a horrible one.

This. I usually love Cory and Grey, but they dropped the ball on this one.

There's probably a better joke to be told about how Greenlight technically exits so that Steam can keep their catalogue curated while allowing for games they wouldn't ordinarily look out, and yet WarZ, which is far worse than most of the Greenlight indies, was allowed in through their usual means. So we're getting a closed of the ecosystem without its only perk, that of a consistently high quality of titles.

IMO they should change greenlight to be like kickstarter. If you vote for a game and it is chosen then you automatically buy it.

That would cut down a lot on the joke votes and would give the developers and valve a better indication of what customers actually consider to be worthwhile.

That would suck a lot for people who already own games on Greenlight and want to help other people discover them, but seems more fair than to put a tax on people who by and large are the very definition of a starving artist.

 

[Prince Regent]

Good to see you know your Churchill. Funniest comic this year ^^.

 

[Callate]

Dragon's Lair and Postal 2. Wheeeeeeeeee.

 

[LazyAza]

Casual Zombie, name of my next band/website/blog.

 

[Something Amyss]

Bad research turned an average joke into a horrible one.

A good joke doesn't let facts get in the way. This isn't a news article, it's a comic. Humour often bends or alters things.

1 - games that are at least appear good or straightup are good.
2 - games that are actual games, but appear to be bad and won't get pass the greenlight process.

3 - games that are voted for "ironically" or because people suck.

However, the main thrust seems to be "but I disagree, so the joke isn't funny," which is inane.

The thrust of the joke, however, is aimed at the notion that we will somehow get better stuff because corporate suits are no longer involved in a "design-by-committee" process that will filter out good content for the sort of thing that normally gets approved.

The reality, since you are so interested, is that people will gladly fill that role.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I'm just glad joke submissions died out quickly.

"HAI GUISE VOTE FOR MY GAEM IS CALLED HAFL-LIVE 3 ROFLHO!!!!!11!111ONE"

/me grabs all offending parties by the throat and force-feeds them rabid hedgehogs. By that, I mean Ron Jeremy clones.

 

[Ickorus]

If you actually look at the games that has been greenlit so far. Most of the games look to be fairly original in some way. So what is your problem everyone?

I must agree, sure you have to wade through crap to get to them but there are a fair number of good games there and the ones that have been greenlit seem to be among the best. (Except a couple but that's my personal opinion)

Another thing that is bothering me is that two zombie games made it through and everyone is acting like we're being drowned in a wave of them.

 

[SadisticFire]

It is sad that green light doesn't seem to quite work the way I hoped it would. Was hoping it could get new unique games out, but instead if it isn't something that is well known already it won't get enough votes it seems. A lot of the submissions I see already had a large following. Terrible shame.

 

[nexus]

The vast majority of Greenlight titles are actually completely original, so... yea. Whether the games are actually good or not is another matter.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

They should implement an 'Idiot Contingency Plan' into Greenlight. Have Steam only allow original or reasonably good ideas onto Greenlight (Obviously striking down anything that's just a re-post or copy/paste of another game) and have abunch of TERRIBLE/Fake games on the list. Anyone who votes for an absolute crap game will have their house neutralized from outer-space with Steam's 'Death-Ray' which I'm sure they have by now.

Just to clarify, I'm not calling a lot of Greenlight games crap. But I've seen enough 'Original' (sarcasm) ideas that are already released as other games. Because as we all know, simply color swapping characters DOESN'T make for an original game.

 

[I.Muir]

There are at least eight slender man ripoffs of varying lower quality, heres to hoping none of them get through
Say what you like about AAA companies, they do have to follow SOME sort of demonic code of standards and practices

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

There are at least eight slender man ripoffs of varying lower quality, heres to hoping none of them get through
Say what you like about AAA companies, they do have to follow SOME sort of demonic code of standards and practices

I have personally voted down twelve of the damn things and I only get on once every couple weeks so I'm going to say your estimate is ridiculously lower than the truth. Seriously, fuck Greenlight. It is amusing, that's it.

And worse than Postal 2 has made it through. How about Euro Truck Simulator 2012? I bet that's a fucking gem!

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Oh that ConstableFart and his wacky Verb Craft. Will he ever learn?

They should implement an 'Idiot Contingency Plan' into Greenlight. Have Steam only allow original or reasonably good ideas onto Greenlight (Obviously striking down anything that's just a re-post or copy/paste of another game) and have abunch of TERRIBLE/Fake games on the list. Anyone who votes for an absolute crap game will have their house neutralized from outer-space with Steam's 'Death-Ray' which I'm sure they have by now.

Just to clarify, I'm not calling a lot of Greenlight games crap. But I've seen enough 'Original' (sarcasm) ideas that are already released as other games. Because as we all know, simply color swapping characters DOESN'T make for an original game.

Well, they kind of have. Every game needs to have a demo, and you need to pay $100 to use the service initially. That hasn't stopped anyone - and it sort of actually goes against the whole point of a democratic voting system to limit voters at all. Luckily Valve does actually have the final say in the majority of circumstances, so absolute crap shouldn't get through.

It's unfortunate, though, that subjective opinions means that, while I think No Time To Explain! is definitely a game that deserves to be voted through, others will call it crap. I mean, look at this comic; games designed as JOKES and people still reckon Clever Unicorn's Nautical Travels is a game they'd play. It's, on the one hand, unfortunate, and on the other, sort of beautiful in a way. One man's crap is another man's GOTY.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I try to vote for every decent game that is suggested to me by people and I agree there are a lot of richards to wade through before you get to the gold. However, games like Waking Mars are getting through, which is a fucking excellent game. I'm sure after a while Steam will find another way to present games so that it's easier to sift through them and avoid Zombie Clone 2013.

Was happy to see Secrets of Grindea has gotten through, voted for that quite a while a go.

I have to say I'd take a look at Clever Unicorn's Nautical Travels just because it peaks my curiosity. I like to think Windwaker starring Lady Rainicorn.

 

[I.Muir]

There are at least eight slender man ripoffs of varying lower quality, heres to hoping none of them get through
Say what you like about AAA companies, they do have to follow SOME sort of demonic code of standards and practices

I have personally voted down twelve of the damn things and I only get on once every couple weeks so I'm going to say your estimate is ridiculously lower than the truth. Seriously, fuck Greenlight. It is amusing, that's it.

And worse than Postal 2 has made it through. How about Euro Truck Simulator 2012? I bet that's a fucking gem!

Don't you mean portal 3?

At least 8 then is quite an understatement.

In any case it's their $100 loss and if Ive learned anything trawling the internet, it's that your average person does not seem to be bursting with an abundance of unique creativity. Even if they are they won't feel an opportunity to use it here.

A pity then that any good projects that might appear once every full moon go unnoticed buried under so many layers of shite not even an archeologist would want to go digging for it.

 

[Vigormortis]

Yeah, I've looked through the stuff on Greenlight and found very little I'd actually want to green light.

I'm in the same boat.

If only because the only games I was truly interested in seeing Greenlit were, well, already green-lit.

(Project Zomboid, anyone?)

 

[Erttheking]

Ah yes. People and their cursed different opinions.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

There are at least eight slender man ripoffs of varying lower quality, heres to hoping none of them get through
Say what you like about AAA companies, they do have to follow SOME sort of demonic code of standards and practices

I have personally voted down twelve of the damn things and I only get on once every couple weeks so I'm going to say your estimate is ridiculously lower than the truth. Seriously, fuck Greenlight. It is amusing, that's it.

And worse than Postal 2 has made it through. How about Euro Truck Simulator 2012? I bet that's a fucking gem!

Don't you mean portal 3?

At least 8 then is quite an understatement.

In any case it's their $100 loss and if Ive learned anything trawling the internet, it's that your average person does not seem to be bursting with an abundance of unique creativity. Even if they are they won't feel an opportunity to use it here.

A pity then that any good projects that might appear once every full moon go unnoticed buried under so many layers of shite not even an archeologist would want to go digging for it.

I was talking about the part in the rant where they pointed out that people voted for Postal 2. And otherwise I agree. I spend a lot of time going through that stuff and so far I have been thoroughly intrigued by one game, which was a horror game that quite easily may have been a Slender clone and I was merely deceived. Everything else was mediocre or worse. At the very least they were forgettable enough for me not to remember them now, but that may be do to the mounds of crap piled up on top of them.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Ah yes. People and their cursed different opinions.

I'm sorry, fifty Slender clones is not an opinion. It is bullshit. And I'm not talking about clone like your average shooter, I am talking about games that are fucking identical. All of them do the damn note shit, all of them feature the same villain and the same features, all of them suck. This is not, "oh, you're just ragging on people for liking different things than you." This is ragging on people for liking what amounts to shit piled on the rotting corpses of the innocent. This is bad stuff, and for some damn reason, people want it to exist, and people fucking love to keep making it. There was a damn bed simulator on there!

 

[Erttheking]

Ah yes. People and their cursed different opinions.

I'm sorry, fifty Slender clones is not an opinion. It is bullshit. And I'm not talking about clone like your average shooter, I am talking about games that are fucking identical. All of them do the damn note shit, all of them feature the same villain and the same features, all of them suck. This is not, "oh, you're just ragging on people for liking different things than you." This is ragging on people for liking what amounts to shit piled on the rotting corpses of the innocent. This is bad stuff, and for some damn reason, people want it to exist, and people fucking love to keep making it. There was a damn bed simulator on there!

....you do know that I was talking about the whole "democracy" bit right?