This is the lead developer for Pathways a new indie game on steam

>Tons of industries have review - food reviews
>doesn't know the food industry hates reviews so much, they will literally kick out any yelper or equivalent

Maybe his game is just bad?

store.steampowered.com/app/546430/Pathway/

Yeah check out the difference between this.

and

store.steampowered.com/app/813630/Supraland/

>Pathways
I can't find it on steam
do you mean Pathway?
I didn't buy it because it was typical pixel shit, I even got a coupon for it - probably an apology from Chucklefucks for tricking me into buying Starbound. I still ain't buying it.
The reviews on it's page is Mixed so I suspect you meant to write Pathway

>demo available
now THAT is actually commendable in 2019

>reviews are uninformative when they are already sort the most informative to the top
Nigger what?

I work in software engineering and feedback by clients/customers is incredibly important. If you make a game that isn't supposed to be a product and make money, then by all means don't give a shit about reviews, but you're not going to get better at it without criticism.

Is this going to be another 300 post thread where the OP makes up a fake quote and everyone gets mad at the person everyone just blindly believes whatever they see on Yea Forums?

cringe

based

>read his game's reviews
>game looks nice, has a unique settings
>but core gameplay sucks balls and it's most of the game because it's Xcom but worse in every way
>reviews all state this

lol it's incredible how asshurt he is that his game is getting legitimately reviewed because of how garbage his gameplay is.

in reality 60% of those are from people seeing shitposts on Yea Forums and then searching for the game on steam

Pathway is probably the most shallow xcom cone I've seen.. no wonder it has mixed reviews

so devs should hire user as influencers?

this guy has the right idea imo. paying for advertisements only works if you're gonna be dumping truckload of money into it like ubisoft/ea etc shit to basically brainwash the uninformed masses and even then, they're essentially running ideas into the ground with every new release, until they can no longer fool people into buying x game and have to destroy another series. plus, ea gets away with it by having rights to sports licenses.

I generally feel Steam reviews to be the most accurate of all reviewing platforms. It's people who spend money on a game and tell other people exactly why they should or shouldn't buy it. The amount of trolling and fake reviews just to bomb a game you dislike barely happens, because you need to buy the game before you can even review. Journalists are too biased, bought, or afraid to leave negative reviews.

So fuck no I disagree. Steam reviews is the best thing that happened to the industry in a while. Journos were getting way too much power.

Based developer who says marketing goons are useless garbage. Just make a good game.

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exactly. it's the incompetent faggot developers/publishers who want to fool people into buying garbage that want reviews gone and limited refunds

>"I don't like the census in the thread, therefore it must be fake and everyone else are sheeple"

twitter.com/sibachmann/status/1116756059224530950

Here's what (real) journalists do and what retards like you should do: corroborate the story yourself and have sex, you brain dead drumpf poster.

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Just make a better game next time literally who indie dev.

>Youtubers are overrated for advertisement
>rely of word of mouth instead
Is he retarded

he has a pretty successful game wheres yours

>make a good game
>people will slowly pick up on it as a good game
>youtubers will make videos for you for free since it's a good game
>get more word of mouth
>your game sells better and better.

Also he just released his game without any advertising and it's in the steam's top sellers list right now.

I think what he is saying is it would be better to build on audience on twitter or whatever during development than pay some youtubers to shill on/after release.

>2019
>I don't know guys, maybe word of mouth is strong?
DO YA THINK SO, BILLY??

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How is OP a soiboy? Because he called out someone being a faggot?
You keep pictures of men making dick suck poses with their mouths, you can't tell anyone anything

I think most of it is due to a demo. It's rare for a game to have one these days, for some reason.

Pathway is incredibly shallow with it's gameplay, that's why it's getting bad reviews. I was looking forward to it but it's not that well executed. It's just very repetitive

Next he'll want no refunds possible.

A person sees a cool game on youtube, twitter, Yea Forums, reddit, facebook, whatever.
Person now wants to buy it. Person goes to the steam store page and types the game's name into the search box. That person now counts as "steam traffic".
Thinking like this is fallacious

WRONG!

steam reviews are INCREDIBLY helpful.You just have to spend 2 minutes reading both the positive and negative ones, which are the most helpful of the two.

the truth always surfaces; they answer questions that the tag system, review score, IGN stupidity and the game description/trailer are just unable to answer:

>what is the true reason to play this game?
>who is this game NOT for?
>how does the endgame compares to other games of the same genre?
>why this negative things about the game actually doesn't matter or is even a pro for true fans?
>which advertised feature are actually shallow and absolutely didn't help the game?

nothing can sell you a game as well as a negative review that lists as negatives things you absolutely don't care about or even consider a positive.