The Asset Flip - Exposes low quality games on Steam / Greenlight that are from the Unity Asset store

They never cared about removing all this trash from Greenlight and dealing with shitty devs. So in near future they probably won't.

edit: it's sad that that much crap games and shitty devs come to ruin Greenlight, there are lots of cool games that could be on Steam, like Touhou games or lots of other games, but these devs for some reason not care about selling their games on Steam.

Is it against some ToS that people cannot make commercial games out of Unity assets? (I thought the whole point of those assets were to provide easy-to-use models for game makers and maybe for presentation, just like the RPGmaker assets people pay a ton of money for.)

there has been an increase of this practice, most of them are made on unity, but ideally people should just vote no, whenever they see this kind of games
Its really easy to spot them, most of them are essentially same game
That would be the easiest way, considering that, this is not exactly a valve´s fault but rather unity that lets people sell the assets as games

So someone makes a shitty game....so what, if people buy it. And they do, cause those "but it has cards" buyers would even buy a picture of a dos-screen for 19 cents.
And it does not matter if he used only assets, in fact people get more likely what is presented in the store than in some 60€ games :P

Ugh, I wish steam would take action to limit their store to some quality standard, but the way they have setup greenlight is to be community controlled instead. In a prior age of computer gaming, making a clone of someone else's game was often done and was termed shovelware, so it's not a new idea. What Valve clearly didn't take into account with their greenlight program though was that linking games greenlight pages through other places would drive 'up votes' from people not even interested in the game but in some other benefit of said external community. I think it unlikely that Valve will actually do anything about these types of games since they can justify it by saying it is community voted regardless of whether it is trash. Unless I'm very interested in a game these days I just vote no to everything on greenlight on principle. I really wish they would put a filter on the store to allow me to not show greenlit and early access games since it seems that is 75% of what I see on a daily basis anymore.

What about that sticker in Jim's pulpit?
"We don't discrimate. If you're buying, we're selling."
Kind of incoherent with his speech, but sums up what Valve is doing.

makes me kinda mad not having done that myself - such a petty system is practically begging to be exploited lol

Cool! Looks like it's time I got into "game development".

Greenlight exists to prevent what has become of Amazon's app store, hundred clones of the same game. The problem isn't with Steam it is the Greenlight bundles and promo companies like WGN that help games like these get approved. Steam took action to help reduce that by stating "key for vote" campaigns were now a violation of the Greenlight system.

It's pretty common that programmers aren't graphic artists and vice versa so asset stores assist people who can't afford to hire somebody to do either of those things even part-time. In my experience music and sound effects are abused even more than pre-made code and graphic assets. I think it's strange that there are complete game packages on the asset store with a royalty-free license. I remember seeing one months ago but they stated it was already on Steam and you don't get publishing rights.