Like... who cares what random internet man in a steam thread has to say?! Reporting on it gives credence to the idea by giving it a larger platform when what that person suggested, will never happen. It will NEVER happen but thanks for echoing it!

I have heard that the company spending was out of control and they were unsustainable.

They were hiring people that had to relocate to the studio just the other week. They clearly knew how bad it was but operated as if it wasn’t. A lot of choices earlier on could have saved this company but seems upper management didn’t know how and simply screwed everyone in the end so as to avoid paying any severance.

Unknown at this point. Telltale hasn’t responded on what it intends to do but unlikely legal action could lead anywhere if the company simply doesn’t exist due to not having any money...

Oh, I agree. I have criticized this site in the past but more over news stories turned into blog type articles rather than focusing on the news element... but at a certain point - it’s kinda clear this was always the way the site did it. I’m more critical towards the OP suggesting this is new and placing the blame on…

I think you meant to say that to the OP and not me...

To be fair - if stuck around this long you kind of knew what you were in for and this doesn’t all just come from one writer. This site is more often a blog than a news site.

It started with Greenlight but got a lot worse with Direct because people no longer needed to get votes. They just paid for entry.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is beautiful and, I think, mechanically the best in the series. I still prefer the overall story of the first in this new series but each entry has been great and this one had some of the best character moments in the series. I really hope it does well and we get additional installments…

True!

I don’t quite understand where the age of 18 comes into the picture here, because he’s based in California?

We already have numerous unscrupulous devs who have no problem attacking and banning any negative opinion of their game, no matter how valid the criticism.

Her original RE2 outfit was not blending in.

If Valve wasn’t transparent on the reasons for rejecting games, how do you know that it was never based a game’s appearance..?

I’ve worked in the industry for over a decade. Steam has never had actual Quality Control. Games weren’t rejected because of quality, they were rejected because of content and that continued even when they had Greenlight.

Quality control can be a two-way street. Steam used to have fairly strict quality control but a lot of customers and developers complained that certain games were being rejected unfairly.

Streets of Rage is a beat-em-up, not a platformer.

A LOT of those indie success stories came from various levels of media coverage. Not all from Kotaku or IGN, mind you (although a few like Dead Cells and Stardew Valley did get some coverage on big sites). But some like The Raft, The Forest, House Flipper, etc - also got coverage with popular YouTubers or streamers…

But it actually does matter as no filter can determine the actual quality or lack there of in relation to the type of game you’re looking for.

Steam is a big marketplace and will increase the exposure that these games get. That will result in increased revenue which may result in increased budgets, potentially increasing the quality of the games.