“You level up your account. You get things for playing games.“ Trading cards, profile page decorations, and the like are all tools for self-expression. “There’s all of these elements that let you express who you are as a person as well as then MMO-ing the entire experience and leveling up,” he says. “Then you have things that you can give to other people, and awards, and all of that.”
So… like… all the least used features of the software? That’s what he’s saying people like best?
A feature like this only needs to attract a tiny percentage of rich whales to be worth it.
Its the game I like to play, but also a bit of a fun challenge to unlock the various badges for a game and compare your rank globally in steam.
No it isn’t.
It is not a game.
A game is a form of art, Steam exists to make Gabe money it is not a work of art and has no artistic relationship with its players and the fact that Gabe doesn’t understand that as CEO of a gaming company is fucking embarassing.
I am tired of this lazy conflation of attaching superficial, lazy carrots on sticks to things and calling it “gamification” it is such an empty, cynical condescending way of looking at the world.
Why is everyone so condescending about games? No Gabe Steam is not an MMO because it isn’t fun, there is no actual core experience other than numbers going up. Therefor it is NOT a game.
Now if you wanted to argue Steam was a shitty multiplayer idle game sure, but it has to be the shittiest idle game in the world then and Gabe even worse your multiplayer idle game is full of Nazis and extremely toxic behavior none of you give any shit about moderating…
Steam isn’t a game.
