“already”
we are halfway through october.
the new release calendar thing is real neat. i probably bought more games in the past few months than i did all last year, and i can’t think of any that were stinkers!
I mean, it’s midway through October. That’s only a 12% increase. It’s the increase actually all garbage out is some of that growth just normal expansion of the platform?
Also, there are a lot of unemployed tech workers and game devs out there from years of constant layoffs.
I don’t want to blame all of this on vibe coded slop ware.
Doesn’t seem that bad to me. I only buy games I want to play.
ooh nooo people are making games whatever should we dooo
And more games were added in 2025 than in 2024. This is a weird metric to panic over.
*For general information, here’s a chart from SteamDB: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b1600c7c-79d3-48c8-8121-95f2bad75d0f.png (For context, Greenlight became a thing in 2012, and Steam Direct started in 2017)
Are we doing asset flips again. Will a new Steam Cleaner emerge?
The whole slop coded games thing is the biggest reason why some people I know are starting to believe you should be required to have a revokable license to sell games. Slop code a game? License revoked and game cannot be sold for profit kinda deal.
Why are people like this.
Slop developers, Kotaku “journalists,” or both?
