Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoAnother live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steamwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1105
arrow-up1105external-linkAnother live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steamwww.pcgamer.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareDe_Narm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoGreenlight was almost universally hated by devs. It could be easily gamed by abusing your popularity or by simply using bots. It prevented actual indie devs from ever releasing finished games while a lot of greenlit games didn’t even release.
minus-squareSolidShake@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoah. but also just letting anyone make anything is letting bots make scam games
Greenlight was almost universally hated by devs. It could be easily gamed by abusing your popularity or by simply using bots. It prevented actual indie devs from ever releasing finished games while a lot of greenlit games didn’t even release.
ah. but also just letting anyone make anything is letting bots make scam games