Oh well, ill just stick to forums to find out about quality games.
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Surprise, dickbag! Its all guerilla marketing!
Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games
verdi@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.
And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.
We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.
It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The things getting reviewed already have a selection bias that makes them more likely to review well. It’s not a problem that reviewers focus their time on the games that their audience is most interested in, as opposed to reviewing every asset flip published to Steam.