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"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I skimmed through this, and some other stories from the same "news author". Either the author, Matt Wales, is actually bipolar and needs to seek treatment, or he just angles his articles about the given topic based on whichever third party threw him some chump change to buy a coffee.

I've never seen someone be so anti-steam, and pro-steam at the same time. One article is praising steam as the best thing that happened to humanity, the next one is talking about how terrible they are and how much they just want to censor games and kill studios they don't like.

One article is praising Nintendo as the greatest gaming company ever, and the next is talking about how evil they are regarding the palworld lawsuit.

I know publications have their bias, but at least most of them are somewhat consistent in their bias....

I did find this comment under one of his articles regarding this game. (Yes, he's made three articles about this game, one after the other), and I thought it summed up my short experience with eurogamer. (most other comments were very anti-steam, but that's to be expected since everyone else that threw up in their mouths quickly clicked off the article)

Deejay#4435 1 day, 10 hours ago

15 years ago, Steam was a curated walled garden. Every game was manually approved for sale, and if they didn't like your game and didn't think it was good enough, then you didn't get to sell on there. It was gutting when my game was sold on XBLIG, GOG, Green Man Gaming, and some other stores that I can't remember, but Steam just gave us a flat-out "no".

To be fair, the game was pretty crap (Eurogamer gave it an 8/10).