if you check my site out, you’ll discover that i release free and very low priced vst plugins and have done so for about a decade. if you explore my reputation some, you’ll discover that my work is generally considered to be unusual and appreciated, eg. noone else has a kelly-lochbaum tract in vst format, acoustic friction model instrument and so forth.

tbh software and computers and the internet have relative meaning, objectively arguing about anything, especially a particular site’s function, is a joke.

by, as you say, my efforts to democratise availability, i’ve made a lot of enemies. very aggressive, organised enemies. online, they slander my reputation (i’ve been accused of threatening someone’s children – absurdly twisting a comment i made to him about mining throwing away the environment for the future) and generally drag my ass through the mud at every turn in the most hateful fashion conceivable.

if that wasn’t enough, since these bastards are freemasons, they fragged my real world too. i’ll save you the description, but it did leave me living in a tent for a year, after losing house, job, studio and vehicles.

i’m liking your site – i appreciate your effort to popularise “the means of production” or really, to enable others.. it’s a good idea, it beats a society full of incapable persons (which is what big money wants – no competition, which is why good information like this isn’t presented clearly at gamedev).

so i’m sharing this with you to provide some awareness that, occasionally some proponents are intentionally excluded from publicity. YTD (end of september) i’ve seen about $700 so far, because i still have to hide myself from masonic harassment. so for me, $100 would be a difficult threshold to pass for my work, which is generally, pretty mature. i’m in my forties, it’s ridiculous and it sucks, but since i spent the last 20 years of my life indoors programming and making music, i don’t have much of a social network at all, which made me an easy target.

thanks, and keep an open mind

What’s happening right now is that the games are placed randomly through the pages. You click one game, get back and all games are different. You can even see the same game in two consecutive pages, which makes separating the pages useless. It could be just random games that changed every time you hit refresh.

There are various other solutions to organise without giving advantage to anyone. There could be an “oldest” or “newest first”, “alphabetical order” or the like, just so you know which ones you saw without having to browse thorugh them again or even totally missing one because it didn’t show up randomly.

Also I strongly believe that steam will not stop choosing from some indie games without using greenlight, if somehow the game is brilliant on its own.

This is exactly right.

If anyone disagrees with the necessity for stronger filtering, please turn to the graveyard that is xbox live indie games, and the near death of a brilliant platform: XNA. You can thank the many controller massage games and clones of clones etc. for the public’s relative lack of disinterest there.

The peer review was just not enough to keep the content quality high enough. Who can blame the users for not wanting to sift through mountains of crap to find something decent?

Sadly the decent games get missed altogether. For an example: Cthulhu Saves the World made more money on steam in 5 days than it did in a year and a half on XBLIG.