I won't get into the politics, but this is the reason why I fully agree with Valve's approach with Steam. There shouldn't be any entity deciding what games are good enough to be sold. Let the customers decide what they're willing to buy, and through content discovery tools, the customer shouldn't (or rarely) even come across the garbage.
GOG is a fantastic storefront, and unlike other competitors to Steam provides real value to their customers, instead of artificial exclusivity or forced clients, but at some point I'd like to see them change their policy on curation.
Totally disagree with this btw. On a basic level, I do understand that Valve does not want to be a gate keeper for the entire industry (even though 4+ years ago, they effectively were). However, while I think they should not do any gate-keeping for games DESIGN-WISE, they should be doing it on a TECHNICAL level, and at least trying to prevent scams and games that don't work.
There are SO many games being released on Steam that are completely and utterly broken on a technical level. So many games whose store pages are just full of lies and deceptions. Up until a few months ago, you were allowed to post trailers and screenshots that weren't actually gameplay, so you were essentially allowed to represent your game however you want. Plenty of companies have published their own games multiple times under different names. There have even been instances of games that were stolen being published. Games bought off the Unity asset store being published countless times in unaltered ways. To me, that kind of stuff just pollutes your storefront. Imagine walking into a store well they sell washing machines, microwaves, laptops, etc. and 85% of what they sell is broken. For any other storefront this would be absolutely unacceptable, but for Steam this is apparently good enough.
And I understand what they are trying to do with their discovery tools, but it just doesn't work. I have a huge amount of games on my wishlist and a shitload of games in my library. In other words: Steam's algorithms should be good enough to provide me with good suggestions, right? Nope. I constantly get suggestions for anime boob games, shitty early access sandbox games, terrible shooters and clicker games, none of which I'm interested in. It constantly suggests games that I already on my wishlist (why?) and sometimes even games I own. Many of games it suggests are so very clearly of abysmal quality, and a large amount of the store pages read like they were simply ran through Google Potato Translate. And what about games like Voidspire Tactics? They just get drowned out by all the shit.
TL;DR: I get what they're trying to do, but it just doesn't work. There's a reason why Steam has seen its reputation gone for PC darling to semi laughing-stock of the industry.
Sorry about the rant
