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Have you actually played the games that that they promoted? I've played Battlepillars, and I've been having fun with it, and certainly don't see a problem with any of the games so far.

Nobody is allowed to like game you think is crap?

I bet if everyone was allowed to remove games they don't like, there wouldn't be any game left.

And just who makes it official that certain games are crap? Couple sayings come to mind: One man's trash is another man's treasure (not that these games are trash), and "It takes all kinds to make a world"; and when you get into administration "get rid of the crappy games!" mode, you become a nouveau riche snob with your nose stuck high in the air.

EDIT made.

I actually agree very much with all you're saying. Every point. I made an angry post on one of the discussion boards of Paranormal State about how you should only vote a game up - regardless of there being a free key or not - only if you genuinely see something you feel is worth money. The free key should not be seen as an incentive, but an incidental reward for support. Unfortunately, of course, you can't count on most people seeing such a promo having such a moralistic view of such things, and I agree that it's a slight bit immoral a move for a dev to do, to the detriment of other devs' fair shot at Greenlight.

On the other hand, you might see it as simply a fair business move to market and promote their game - albeit at the cost of the idea of Greenlight. As long as a dev doesn't pretend to be "a nice guy wanting to reward people!" but is being honest in their stance about it - "we put aside <x> in lost potential profit for <x> keys, we get promoted, people who are fast enough get something nice for free, everyone wins", I'm kinda ok with it.

Except that it kinda ruins the nifty idea that is Greenlight, which makes it more a grey area to me, and generally I disapprove of the way most of these things have been going. And I stick to the idea of "voting yes because I actually wanna play this and would plonk down a little cash for it, sure".

And that's why I say I agree with all your points, including the last paragraphs'. I don't vote yes for stuff I genuinely think is mediocre, either. It's just that nowadays, people's expectations have been skewed a bit more towards high production values and graphics than gameplay and core mechanics, and nice looking - just not AAA 3D graphics - stuff. That's why it's important to be a good critic, understand the design goals of a game, and have a bit of insight into who the devs are, what their potential is. If I think a game is pretty decent, but the devs are douches in some way, or I think they lack vision, or anything else I consider important for a dev to have as a quality, they still won't get my vote.

So, I get what you're saying, and I agree.

However, my original comments' points still stand :)

If using the Steam login API was against the TOS, there wouldn't be a steam login API. By this logic, the Humble Bundle is also breaking Steam's TOS. Not to mention this site we're on right now...

The Illuminati will one day enslave humanity and replace us with robots. They're out to get us. You know this already.

Yeah, that is why this is so unfair! :/

right those too... anything fun and where you need to be creative is not godo.. on steam that is

have been multiple of those ;)