Bundling Broken & Abandoned Games......Acceptable?

unacceptable

Indie Gala makes horrible bundles in general. Stopped using that site long time ago.

I personally don't mind unfinished / abandoned games as long as it has content in them
Like how Windforge WAS. Then a steam / windows / whatelse update (not the game, it's abandoned) broke the tutorial's scripting and unless I'm terribly mistaken, expects you to fix up a broken ship which is not even there.

Ehhh that's not how it works, demand <-> offers

Are cigarettes bad for your health ? of course
Are cigarettes going to be banned ? that won't happen

Probably literally no one buys those games to "play" them, ok, but tbh I can't understand why we can't just ignore those games :\

everytime buy bundle study each game and decided. so many bundle fm indigala i didnt buy

Well, here's the thing: nobody forces you to buy those bundles. In fact, the best way to make them stop bundling stuff like that is, if nobody buys it. Okay, I know that's not very realistic, because people will always buy stuff for cards or +1. But, hey, you can still just ignore it.

Well, you know, quite often you can gain a few cents buying the game (for a few cents) idling the cards and selling them. So it is the devs and the buyers who profit (at least these buyers - and the bundle sites and sites like steamgrounds, of course). It would be in Steam's interest to do something against this, because though they also earn a few cents, it hurts their reputation. They don't - instead of implementing a quality control for new games (maybe in combination with the current greenlight system) in order to check if the game meet minimal standards (playable, with a bit of content), they are just going to implement a paywall ...

Just more of the market getting poisoned by asset-flippers, who are enabled by Valve's total lack of quaility control on their storefront, and who are empowered by idiots who put more effort into building the biggest library and/or badge collections on steam instead of playing the actual games (with or without card farmers as an extra step before said idiots spend their money).

Haven't bought any [insertBundleSite] bundle for at least x years. All the games in there are trash. I haven't played them, but they are trash. Objectively! The trailer / reviews / screenshots already show that. If I don't expect a game to be enjoyable for me, it won't be, therefore I don't even have to buy it. I've never accidentally found a gem.
Now someone who wants trash like this for 20-30 cents (they would only be more expensive, if they were good - and come on, we already agreed they are not) has probably lost his marbles. I mean, they can't play it, since it's trash. They can't like it, since it's trash. They are losing time by taking care of it.. just imagine all the scrolling through their library.
And then they're idling, most probably they only start the PC for it.. what an ecological and economic disaster. They have to buy further cards to complete their sets to show off small shiny, fancy things in a virtual gallery which is so uninteresting nobody ever gonna look at it. Poor guys. One should be able to tell them how to spend their money. And how they should spend their free time. At least they need a legal guardian.

Sorry, OP, for hi-jacking. I agree with you regarding Greenlight and Valve's lack of quality control. Unfortunately Steam Direct most probably won't help. IndieGala - well they should also be interested in their own reputation (maybe it's too late for that). On the other hand a bundle has to have trade-offs, otherwise it couldn't lead to cheaper prices than retail/sale prices of the individual games.

This is Steam faults, allowing countless non-game shit that would have never been a sellable thing in the time of physical format or even Flash.

There's many russian devs selling their games for less than cent per key (for card farming). Indie Gala simply does use these to pad their bundles.

I'd guess Steam Direct will "fix" this, but frankly Valve should eliminate worst of worst from store.