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[BigD145]

Some good chap at RPS made a bot to collect data* from greenlight and got ip banned by steam:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164739/greenlight.htm
click the heading to sort.

* IOS/Mobile games. My personal dislike of this type of the game forms this category. Rounded-edge logo's usually give them away. (Most of them are also Tower Defence games)

750+? Damn, it's going to take awhile to sift through and downvote all those TD games.

[Metalax]

It's a pity there is no option to not rate a game and just remove it from the big list of unrated games. I don't really want to have to downvote games that may be good but are not of a type that I would be interested in simply to get them out of the list.

Down voting essentially just does that (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32641767&postcount=5)

Ah cool, there was no official word on that at the time I originally posted. It would be less confusing if they marked that as 'ignore entry' rather than 'down vote', as those are intuitively different things.

[miauw62]

On a positive note, I just found Sang-Froid, a game where you play as a pair of Canadian lumberjacks who must protect their sister from the Devil and his werewolf minions using traps and historically accurate liquor and firearms.  The gameplay looks a bit like Orcs Must Die but with more open environments and much stronger enemies, like what would happen if you combined OMD with the strider battle from the end of Episode 2.

Oh, so i'm suppposed to be stuck there.

[Zangi]

Some good chap at RPS made a bot to collect data* from greenlight and got ip banned by steam:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164739/greenlight.htm
click the heading to sort.

... That is just what Greenlight needs, some sort of sorter. 

I really hated how you can go from page to page... and get the same things you saw on the previous page on the new page.

[burningpet]

Well, the good chap and i are in the progress of maybe making it more eye pleasing, like in this mockup:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21309241/highlights.jpg

[Aklyon]

Some good chap at RPS made a bot to collect data* from greenlight and got ip banned by steam:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164739/greenlight.htm
click the heading to sort.

* IOS/Mobile games. My personal dislike of this type of the game forms this category. Rounded-edge logo's usually give them away. (Most of them are also Tower Defence games)

750+? Damn, it's going to take awhile to sift through and downvote all those TD games.

Not all the TDs are bad.
Though since I have Defense Grid and one or two others already, we certainly don't need more of them if they aren't up to par.

[BigD145]

Some good chap at RPS made a bot to collect data* from greenlight and got ip banned by steam:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1164739/greenlight.htm
click the heading to sort.

* IOS/Mobile games. My personal dislike of this type of the game forms this category. Rounded-edge logo's usually give them away. (Most of them are also Tower Defence games)

750+? Damn, it's going to take awhile to sift through and downvote all those TD games.

Not all the TDs are bad.
Though since I have Defense Grid and one or two others already, we certainly don't need more of them if they aren't up to par.

The majority are bad/worthless. They've been so overdone, as 2D/isometric and 3D with the player in it sort of FPS, that recently the "reverse TD" arose. Most of that was done to death by Starcraft and Warcraft. Just play those games with the respective mods and you're done with TD.

[Aklyon]

I have neither SC nor WC, but Defense Grid is basically as good as a TD is going to be as far as I'd bother to try. Looks great, reasonably long, plenty of extra maps, and an eventual sequel. That and Sanctum are basically it for good Steam TD's.

[BigD145]

I took one look at Sanctum when it came out and thought, "WHY?!" Just go play a FPS. There's tons of them. Some are free.

[Aklyon]

Because I got it in a bundle. I didn't buy it by itself.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

So going back to Greenlight there's been some changes that might be worth discussing.

There's now a $100 entry fee to Greenlight in an attempt to reduce "noise and clutter". This fee is apparently donated to Childs' Play and Valve doesn't take any cut from it.
Greenlight will also generate a little panel of selected games that you haven't rated yet that is popular with the community. They've also seemed to change the thumbs up/thumbs down mechanic, it's now whether you would "buy this game on Steam" rather than "dislike/like".

http://i.imgur.com/jhARM.png
http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1317556891741839763

[Aklyon]

While I liked seeing the messy messy silly things like people throwing eroge vns and the technic launcher at greenlight all the time, I approve of that announcement.

[Levi]

So going back to Greenlight there's been some changes that might be worth discussing.

There's now a $100 entry fee to Greenlight in an attempt to reduce "noise and clutter". This fee is apparently donated to Childs' Play and Valve doesn't take any cut from it.
Greenlight will also generate a little panel of selected games that you haven't rated yet that is popular with the community. They've also seemed to change the thumbs up/thumbs down mechanic, it's now whether you would "buy this game on Steam" rather than "dislike/like".

http://i.imgur.com/jhARM.png
http://steamcommunity.com/games/765/announcements/detail/1317556891741839763

Ah, that is a good plan.

[Aklyon]

The panel sucks, not for the idea (which is great), but how it currently works. If you select 'action, rpg, strategy, adventure', it doesn't find games that are any of the above. It looks for Action RPG strategy adventure games, of which there currently are none.

[ECrownofFire]

I like this idea of requiring a donation to Child's Play, but $100 seems a bit much for something that is as unpredictable as this.