Ever because the release of the now-defunct Steam Greenlight in 2012, I feel we have been on an unstoppable march towards the slop-ification of each storefront not completely micromanaged by its owner.
Steam Greenlight was a scheme that allowed the general public to vote on which independent games they desired to see on Steam. Because the years progressed, this system became a haven for asset flipping and rife with voter manipulation.
This is amazingly evident when taking one take a look at the PlayStation Store or Nintendo eStore, each of that are crammed with low-effort asset flips. With the unlucky introduction of generative artificial intelligence to the world, this problem has only been exacerbated. There appears to be an entire lack of willpower on the a part of Sony and Nintendo to deal with this issue. Actually, Sony just promoted a Resident Evil rip-off called Ebola Village on its official YouTube channel.
Bad News For The Jumping Taco Fans
Nonetheless, one in every of these publishers can have flown too near the sun as Sony has now deleted the “studio’s” entire portfolio of over 1,000 games from the PlayStation Store (nice spot, Eurogamer).
The wrongdoer is none apart from ThiGames, known for contemporary classics resembling The Jumping Bonbon Match 5, The Jumping Catcher, The Jumping Strawberry and, in fact, The Jumping Hot Dog.
The marketplace for these games appears to be for farming trophies. These firms create “games” which are just game-like enough to get published, after which entice players into buying these games by offering easy trophies.
You’ll be able to earn dozens of trophies just by playing these games for five minutes, and players want trophies for, uh… reasons? If I see someone has many Platinum Trophies and I click into their library and see The Jumping Taco, then I would not be impressed, would I? Perhaps I’d be impressed by the lengths someone was willing to go to, to see an arbitrary number rise.
There’s been no statement from Sony or ThiGames as to why these games have been deleted, and whether this represents an increased effort by Sony to wash up the PlayStation Store. Unfortunately, I doubt it.