What is the true meaning of curator pages?
best way, if you're interested, to see what really is a Curator, is to create one. basically, "only Gaben knows" is the answer ( = selling more games) and what you see around SG is, most of the time, is a "light curation" made so to make you join a Group (to access giveaways) and the Curator page.
Curator with a bunch of followers can receive Steam games for free directly from devs/publishers, so to make a curation (the twitter-reviews) and let followers know about their games...
that said, i really like Curators as a tool to sell games, i also like twitter-reviews (you can also add a YouTube video, a link to a full review, a link to a forum/discussion) when done right. i'm following very few, but those few are very good and actually useful :P
i also didn't find the gib. ah ha :|
happy SGiftin', mother!
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I think I understand; we have an old metal washtub that we keep out in the yard for picking rocks, because they're bad news for mower blades. Of course, this fills up with water, which gets inhabited by all sorts of weird bugs, larvae, worms, etc. on top of a bed of fallen leaves and things. The point toward which I'm slowly rambling is that Steam is like my yard, where these things can be found; and that these curators are kind of a social media microcosm not unlike the tiny world inside the washtub. The brain stew has cooled, but it never really gets dumped out. >.>
I never did adapt all that well to this social media thing, but I can see the value in following someone who talks about games that you might otherwise miss, because the front page is so busy cramming Doom Eternal, Fallout 76, and the latest Resident Evil remake down your throat, like you've never heard of them. Truthfully, I do this, but I do it the hard way, browsing SteamGifts, itch, and a bunch of other sites almost daily just to see what I might come across.
The 5-character code for the giveaway is the initials of the all-caps real president and the all caps fake president in the original post. For whatever reason, the 5 characters they gave me were all capital letters.
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I've followed curators in the past, and it doesn't affect the front page for me at all, unless I scroooooooooll right down to the stuff under all the promoted stuff. They front page has never been a good start to find stuff one is actually interested in, at least for me. Also, there are far too many curators on Steam.
In saying that, Puzzle Lovers does seem like a reasonable curator for some games to play that I already own, so thanks for reminding me.
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Just because someone likes puzzles doesn't mean that all puzzles are good. Especially, when in certain games the puzzle is bugged, extremely hard, and there is no way to progress in a game where everything else up to that point was really good.
Stop throwing a libel case into a discussion that is completely uncalled for, unwarranted, and especially if you're not going to provide proof or context for your reason to belittle another human being behind their back.
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When you make a rude remark about someone, then you should clarify it with some information in the first instance.
Your post was directed at me, so it's only fair to quantify why I shouldn't follow them, and not make some vague comment.
If you're trying to sway people to not follow/like someone else because you don't like, it's only reasonable to expect an explanation for it.
Everyone is free to their opinion, but if you want to be a slave, you're free to be one, just act like a man, you don't need to say sorry.
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That's definitely true; I just went through my Discovery Queue for laughs today, and hit ignore on every single game. Part of the problem is that a lot of the tags are a joke.
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Step 1 - create a random Steam group.
Step 2 - do some giveaways and post here asking people to join your group, claiming you're planning more giveaways.
Step 3 - create curator and start doing giveaways in the group that requires people to follow said curator (not necessarily on sg).
Step 4 - once a reasonable amount of people follow the curator (preferably 1k+), start asking developers for keys to review for your curator.
Step 5 - ???
Step 6 - profit!
You can even get keys from big/AAA developers/publishers if your curator is big enough. With that said, there are a few good ones. Themed curators seem to work best. For example, the group Duke Nukem Begins reviews old/retro style shooters ala Duke Nukem 3d. PC Gamer curator is also not half bad, but that's an exception.
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As someone who has a curator with 1400-1500 followers, I can tell you only crap lands on the curator page as offered game. AAA+ is still a no, even with 10k. Few giveaways are not enough to get a decent follower base, I got about -100 with giveaways from SG, others following me, because they interested in the curation, but steam analytics shows that to me nicely, the unique account views/store page opens through my curated games. (Btw, easy to spot curators which became bigger of giveaways, they have much more group member count than curator followers, as for the giveaways only group membership required, not actual curator follow)
If someone wants free games easily, not curator is the way, as you can't buy followers, no decent games even at 2k. But with 2k YT followers you can get good games already. And YT follower numbers easy to "cheat". This is what I'll never understand, as curator followers are actual gamers, YT followers might be bots, pirates, or any who just following the channel for jokes/hate speech. There are many so-called "influencers" with 10k followers, but then barely 100 views on each video yet they get AAA games for free.
If I would be a game developer, with any kind of decent game, I am sure I would never give any press copy to any YT channel with less than 100k follower +50k average views or curators with less than 5k, but I would still select which one should get, only decent ones which also include reviews, eventually game guides so adding something notable to my game. (oh, and they review games after longer playtime, not after 30-60mins just like many fake YTer/curator doing, no complete view about the game)
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With a small curation you don't make profit in the way you explain it.
Special if you do long reviews and put a lot of hours into the game tests + reviews than you didn't make a profit as you name it.
You make only "profit" when you exploit that system with short or copied reviews, heavy promotions on, mostly shady often RU, sites and force people to follow your curation to get freebies.
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There are a few good curators focused around specific genres (visual novels, roguelikes, etc) or themes (sci-fi, narration etc) who sometimes write longer review and include a link in their post. Those are pretty good for getting a bit of information if you're interested in the things they're covering.
Although a lot of the really big curators are either mafias or advertising tools for youtubers, and not worth your time.
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I see this all the time, and I've looked at curator pages on Steam, but it seems like they're a simple yes/no and a really short blurb; I feel like I'm missing something. Is there something more to this: a hidden full review?
I've noticed no one answered your question, so to answer your question - yes, there is.
In fact, most reviews you see on a curator's page (I can't say about others but my reviews do have them) has a link on the right that will lead you to the full review. It might also be a video link so instead of "Read the full review" (see the image attached), the link will appear as "Watch the full review".
P/S: For those interested... and you can easily verify this yourself if you open up a group and set up a curator page for it, Steam has a 200 character limit for curator reviews, hence the need for blurbs.
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I love weird and surreal! I'm going to check those out for sure; thanks!
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I feel like the purpose, based on the name, is to be a list of games with some common theme. Maybe that theme is more general, like "my opinion of games that I have played" or maybe the theme is more narrow like "football games" or "games that support multiple-monitors" or what have you. There are also negative curators, lists of games to avoid because the servers have been shut down, or DRM, or devs who have wronged the community in some way, or that sort of thing.
But yes curators can get free games for review and a lot of the spam "yes/no' curators and probably just trying to get free games. At least that's what it looks like to an outsider.
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I am not sure if you haven't seen only short reviews of, bad, curation groups or if you have seen the 200 characters limitation but don't looked at the full reviews.
I post you a 200 characters lim. one of my curation and mark the line where you are able to click to get a full review IF the curation have written one that is longer as 200 characters.
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I follow around 15 curations, mostly to see interesting games and to see which shady devs are around.
I really hope that my curation is helpful for a few people because we make honest reviews that should help to decide if a game is worth your money and what exactly you can expect from it :o)
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I see this all the time, and I've looked at curator pages on Steam, but it seems like they're a simple yes/no and a really short blurb; I feel like I'm missing something. Is there something more to this: a hidden full review? Picture of Gaben for children who live far away? A TUBOR-CENTRIC CONSPIRACY!?
Special Secret Gibs Inside; code is LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON followed by visitor from Guacamelee 2's Mexiverse: JORGE WASHINGTON
Take the 5 first letters from the words in all caps, and put them into the standard giveaway URL in all caps. I don't like bots, and this is what fell out of the lovely brain stew I've got going on.
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