Synastry
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Sony delists PS5 spam games after developers speak out
With developers speaking out on the PS Stores' poor shape, Sony looks to have stepped in as a bunch of PS5 spam games have been delisted as of February 2025.
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Sony delists PS5 spam games after developers speak out
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Topher
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That's horrible. What are the names?
ManaByte
Gold Member
Sex shop simulator
bender
What time is it?
Topher
Identifies as young
Correction
bender
What time is it?
DeltaPolarBear
Member
Steam try to discourage it by putting down a requirement for 100 dollars to list a game. That money is refunded if your game revenue reach 1000 dollars or more, but basically it is a barrier to discourage mass uploads. There is only so much you can do, as sometimes it is hard to tell if something is garbage vs some up and coming new Indie classic.
We always had shovelware. It isn't going away.
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March Climber
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LRKD
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I doubt that this is in response to any complaints from other devs, players or journalists. Likely a coincedence, and that they were delisted for some other reason.
it would be nice to see the stores better curated, as it is currently it makes no sense, you can't have some of the best Indie Early Access games on the store like V Rising, Valheim, Phasmophobia, until they leave Early Access. But you can have 10000 cash grabs, that are 1000 times worse in literally every way, because they are 'finished' games. It's like the idea is, stop garbage from flooding the store, and only let in good 'finished' games. But instead, they are stopping good games from growing, and instead flooding hte market with literal garbage.
it would be nice to see the stores better curated, as it is currently it makes no sense, you can't have some of the best Indie Early Access games on the store like V Rising, Valheim, Phasmophobia, until they leave Early Access. But you can have 10000 cash grabs, that are 1000 times worse in literally every way, because they are 'finished' games. It's like the idea is, stop garbage from flooding the store, and only let in good 'finished' games. But instead, they are stopping good games from growing, and instead flooding hte market with literal garbage.
{insert code here}
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Unfortunately we've proven to ourselves with all these Garbo "games" that clog up the store that we need to go back to the way Sony handled games on the PS3 store. Everything was curated and they only released a dozen or so games per week. It was actually possible to find shit you wanted unlike the current model of approving everything and throwing it onto the storefront.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
I really think it would have been best if the Switch 2 started from zero with the Switch 2 store. So much garbage it's no better than Apple's offering.
Cell Phone garbaaaage.
Cell Phone garbaaaage.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Sony delisted PSN
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
And somehow Life of Black Tiger is still up.
Life of Black Tiger
The story of the game is about a black tiger, born as a variant and abandoned by his parents and brothers, fights against human and shows his love to his family. You can have a vivid and realistic experience through set in jungle, field, and forest surroundings in game. Acting as a cruel hunter...
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drganon
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The voices inside your head don't count.
DeepEnigma
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The Pleasure
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Damn, they're delisted and I missed the sale? Guess I'll buy Hentai Shop Simulator.
Black_Stride
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I hope people from the other thread now understand what exactly IGN was actually talking about.
ITs not necesarrily that other stores dont have shovelware, its that said shovelware was clogging up discovery pages.
But people are constantly on the defensive about their preferred platforms, its possible for platforms to make mistakes, when we make a stink about that mistake things like this can happen and they fix it.
Glad the PSN Store is gonna get a much needed cleaning up.
Good on Sony for atleast starting the process so quickly.
ITs not necesarrily that other stores dont have shovelware, its that said shovelware was clogging up discovery pages.
But people are constantly on the defensive about their preferred platforms, its possible for platforms to make mistakes, when we make a stink about that mistake things like this can happen and they fix it.
Glad the PSN Store is gonna get a much needed cleaning up.
Good on Sony for atleast starting the process so quickly.
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kevboard
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I feel like it should be obvious for any of the storefronts to have a limit on how many games someone can release per year...
Nintendo during the NES era did exactly that btw. learning from the American console crash of the 80s, where audiences were fed up by shitty shovelware.
no publisher on the NES was allowed to release more than 5 games a year.
I feel like a similar limit should be implemented on all stores like Steam, Microsoft Store, Epic, PSN, Nintendo Store etc.
maybe not just a blanket 5 games a year, but a limit based on specific factors to prevent spam releases.
Nintendo during the NES era did exactly that btw. learning from the American console crash of the 80s, where audiences were fed up by shitty shovelware.
no publisher on the NES was allowed to release more than 5 games a year.
I feel like a similar limit should be implemented on all stores like Steam, Microsoft Store, Epic, PSN, Nintendo Store etc.
maybe not just a blanket 5 games a year, but a limit based on specific factors to prevent spam releases.
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The Pleasure
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LOL EVERY BIG publisher during the NES era had Shell companies to get past that limit. Remember Ultra Games and Metal Gear being released under Ultra? How about Gyruss? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Blades of Steel? Skate or Die?
kevboard
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they indeed did. but that is not the point. the point is that limiting the amount of releases would be a logical thing to do.
closing such a loophole would be extremely easy. I don't think a slop developer like the ones making these games would be able to hide the fact that they just register new company names every week to get around such a limit.
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ManaByte
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Or just pull the plug, which they appear to have done.
W11d
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because this one is Legendary
Angry_Megalodon
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it's pretty clear there wasn't or isn't any control. It would just take one not mentally challenged person to clean the store each week, no need to block legit games.
Fahdis
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Mr Moose
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Dr Cowley
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Yup, let's say 1000 games are added each year. That averaged to 3 a day, so with a 5 day week, 1 person can spend 2 hours or so looking at each one, that's 4 games per day. If that person can't determine if a game is shovel ware dog shit in 2 hours, replace them. 2000 games a year can be covered by 2 people. It's easy to curate this stuff.
They wont though, it costs sony next to nothing to host these games but they make money each time one of them sell. Is it still a 30% cut?