/v/ - Video Games

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>>15062813

>There's no way companies doing lewd VNs will be able to afford the time to set up proper pages like this

Look at the fucking pages, for fuck sake.

>half a dozen images

>some links to their shop

>small bio

That takes less time than setting up a CV.

>which you've probably all seen by now

Haven't seen it, proving that it's not effective advertising, hence your point is moot. Get fucked faggot, and while you're at it check my digits.

Also archive of the (((Valve))) announcement here https://archive.li/0sYLK

>>15062847

Most small devs can't even keep the news feed up to date.

Are you fucking retarded? It will take only a couple of clicks and maybe 1 piece of original artwork, or even a fucking company logo or game screenshot to set up these pages. All these pages do is list all the games the developers or publishers have made or published in a more presentable manner than just the standard search page.

How would this filter out your shitty weeb non-games, exactly? You can simply search for anime, VN or whatever else degenerate/shit/trash tags you are looking for and get your results regardless.

You think this page takes a horribly long time to set up? https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7564110-THQ-Nordic-Official/?appid=228380

All you do is title a few categories, carry some games over to those categories, upload a background or company logo picture and you are done. If you can't put that much effort into your social media or company pages, maybe your games are just shit and you don't deserve them to be found or played because of how fucking lazy you are.

Anime really is a fucking brain virus.

>>15062911

>Anime really is a fucking brain virus.

Fuck off goon.

>>15062922

Check the archive link.

>>15062919

If being a goon means having an IQ above room temperature in Celsius then I'm glad I am one.

>>15062857

>Most small devs can't even keep the news feed up to date.

If you want, you can.

Also, the incompetence of others isn't a valid excuse.

Why is this even necessary? All you have to do is click on the Developer/Publisher links on a game's store page. I guess people are too retarded to manage that. Damn do they love bloating their already barely working shit.

>>15062955

Big companies raising the barrier to entry massively is a common tactic they use to freeze out any competition. That's why they lobby for increased regulation even though they publicly claim it's bad for business. The cost of a minimum wage office slave or even middling wage community manage is nothing to a AAA dev or publisher but it's a huge chunk of the budget for a tiny one. Increasing fixed costs hurts small companies.

>>15062961

To freeze out non-kosher devs without actually censoring them.

>>15062968

So dedicating 2-4h weekly post-launch to make a blog article is too much work?

C'mon now.

>>15062987

If you're working a standard 40 hour week 2-4 hours is 5-10% of your time. Not an insignificant amount.

>>15062997

Then how the fuck did they even publish a game in the first place?

C'mon, you're strawmanning

>>15062997

You know if you spent the time you spend on /v/ crying your lungs out you'd have written your blogpost by now.

>>15063020

Publishing games is work you have to do. This adds additional work on top of that.

I'm more offended by the notion that Bethesda has a catalog worth, well, cataloging. Who honestly gives a shit about anything they make other than Fallout or the Skyrim series?

>>15062961

And those links will lead to these new pages.

As I said, all these do is make finding games by a certain publisher easier. Instead of scrolling for 5 years looking for a certain something by some publisher (especially those that have published a lot of games), now I can instead, for example, go to THQ Nordic's page, go to their lists page and click on some certain series/genre/developer that they publish and find my games from there. All this does is make finding what you want easier.

>>15062968

>To freeze out non-kosher devs without actually censoring them.

Nigger, this is as hard as setting up a Youtube or Twitter page for yourself or your company. This feature will be open to everyone in the near future and it doesn't affect how easy or hard your games are to find either way. Your two ways of accessing these pages is either to click on the hyperlink on a page for one of your games or have it be suggested to you from the games or types of games that you play. For example, if you play weebshit, you get suggested weebshit on the front page, if you play racing games, you get suggested racing games.

If you're lazy and don't want to make your website, social media or store pages presentable, that's your problem.

>>15063038

>implying you couldn't get some NEET intern to do this stuff for you

LEARN HOW TO DELEGATE RETARD

I could make one of those pages from my phone while I'm taking a shit. The argument that it takes any amount of time or effort is laughable. Even if it did, it wouldn't be a developer wasting their development time on it, it would be the job of a PR person or whoever's financing the game's development. The only way it could cut into dev time in any way was if the game is being made by two people who quit their job and live in someone's basement and work on it 24/7 living off ramen and caffeine pills.

>>15063055

>the Skyrim series

shoot yourself you nigger mongoloid.

>>15062850

You tried

>>15062813

Valve itself is a DRM company bent on censorship. Stop utilizing their services. and make studios and companies also abandon them, and any other company that wants to promote DRM and censorship on PC.

>>15063072

>Valve itself is a DRM company bent on censorship

DRM is arguable but censorship is pants on head retarded. They just said a couple of weeks ago that they don't give a shit what they allow on the store, and what you want to buy or play is up to you.

>>15063058

>>15063062

Setting the page up is one thing. Constantly maintaining it is another. That's work week on week.

>The only way it could cut into dev time in any way was if the game is being made by two people who quit their job and live in someone's basement and work on it 24/7 living off ramen and caffeine pills.

Like a lot of early lewd VNs are?

>>15063059

Outside of the USA it's legally very difficult to hire someone for unpaid work if you aren't a charity.

>>15063072

Until someone comes up with a viable alternative to (((Steam))) we have to deal with Valve.

>>15063099

>Setting the page up is one thing. Constantly maintaining it is another. That's work week on week.

But you don't have to do that. You only have to update these pages every time you release a new game. If you can't spend 5 minutes updating your page after at the very minimum, 6 months of development work, then you are just lazy.

>>15063099

>Like a lot of early lewd VNs are?

>VNs

>taking effort to make

Draw each character in 5 stereotype poses

Draw 10 backgrounds (put a photoshop filter over a googled image)

Write a shitty novella

Done

Do you still want to argue or did you realize how retarded you were, OP?

>>15062813

Web design with a template isn't that hard. Just hand it over to a NEET intern. To web devs, content supervision is that annoying busy work between lunch and your actual projects.

>>15063055

>Skyrim series

Fucking kill yourself.

>>15063109

You are telling that someone who saw Netto no Shishou: Bernd go freeze and then get replaced with Unteraltersbach. Making a VN people want to read is not as easy as you think. If it was, everyone from retard to autistic math genius would have written a novel and self published it.

>>15062813

Steam should remove this because it negatively disadvantages developers of color who don't have the privileges required to be able to make pages like this

>>15068449

t. nigger