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Steam Week in Review: Steam Next Fest has over 8,000 demos, as worthless vibe coded slop levels up (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There no need to delete.

LLM slop is the next evolution to asset flips. Fundamentally the same thing.

Steam handles this not by deleting these slops but by hiding them effectively they don't come up in results unless you search for very specific terms.

Now here comes my controversial opinion which I hope I get downloaded significantly for: currently it costs $200 to submit a game to steam. This problem would go away if they increase that to $2,000.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I get your idea but I don’t think this is the right approach. 2000 $ is a lot of money in some regions where it would hurt solo Indie devs most. At this point I don’t know if there is regional pricing in those areas for submitting. And for every one else: I am not saying that 2000 $ is nothing, but every one who ever worked in a studio knows how much money is burned in games and this amount would be a minor position on the bill but thats another story.

    Maybe a stricter policy about disclaiming where your assets come from would help against slop and asset flips.

    And please lets make ai opt-in everywhere. Like I get that websites like itch now have a no ai tag, but this should be active by default. I don’t want to opt out actively every time I browse.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago*

    Yes I know, that's why I said I hope I get down voted for saying it.

    But my point is, it would make a significant impact on the asset flips and LLM slop.

    I'm not even saying they should do it. Valve has the data to make better decisions than I ever could. I'm sure whatever they're doing is backed by data. Which is kind of what you said, a disclaimer that they used LLMs/machine synthesis.

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