Heh, looks like many of those were created by cheap South-East Asian companies (masquerading as American developers) with the sole intent of creating fast copy-paste assets that will be used as already-made iOS games. The assets themselves were asset-flipped. :D

This (and all the other posts) are pure gold. Thank you for this! I knew the scumfuckery was widespread but didn't realize it was this big!

A lot of people thought shit was bad with Greenlight. And now?

Well, Greenlight's a walk in the park with the god damn Care Bears after the deluge of shit that is Steam Direct. Let's put it that way.

I get that Valve doesn't want to come off as an authoritarian-like dictator by striking down certain games from getting on to their store front but for fuck's sake, so long as you know where the line is and you DON'T cross it, having some god damn standards in place and barring entry to people who are BLATANTLY abusing the system is actually a GOOD thing for the market. It's like what Jim Sterling said in one of his videos, about how Steam is like an Applebee's but it lets ANYONE in to the kitchen to cook up food for its customers, even though some of those people have no right whatsoever to be in said kitchen because they can't cook or they have severe emotional/mental problems and will lash out at anyone/anything that has even the SLIGHTEST problem with their cooking.

I fear the situation will only get worse before it gets any better. How much worse, remains to be seen. All I can say is, brace yourself boys and girls. We're in for one helluva bumpy ride.

Thanks for putting this list together! I marked all of the games with a tag named "Asset Flip" and if enough people add the same tag these should start showing up in the store and categorize the games. I'm not certain how it works, but it may even start auto-tagging/categorizing any future Zonitron releases.

Nah, it's manual and Valve would ban that tag when they find out just like they did for "censored", "3rd party account required", etc
They don't want negative tags.

Yeah, I just saw this topic https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/discussions/0/1456202492173280910/

Originally posted by Eviction Notice:

Yeah, I just saw this topic https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/discussions/0/1456202492173280910/

Yeap, that's why people use curators with negative/informative reviews for that purpose. There are curators for 30 fps, censored content, omitted from pc version content, etc. Why not make one about asset flips? Except this group already does that
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store#curation

here's hoping that at least Valve put the requirement for recuperating the submission fee at some high point, so these losers won't be getting their 100$ submission fees back anytime soon - but seeing as it is Valve probably not...fucking morrons.

So this fee is actually given back after good amount of sales? I haven't seen specifics.

Originally posted by Ryuu:

So this fee is actually given back after good amount of sales? I haven't seen specifics.

yes. and no they haven't stated specifics AFAIK, but considering that they went for the (too) low submission fee in the first place I assume devs prolly won't need to do much to in order to get their fee back.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe I read somewhere that when developers earn $1000 off the sales of 1 game, that $100 is given back by Valve, it's mainly done to make sure Valve still profit off of a game coming onto the Store even if it fails.

Makes sense. Then i agree it should be increased a bit, even niche indie game that is good would likely be able to get back that fee.

The Return of Bantara is an asset flip of the Unity Alien Escape Puzzle Game Template: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/47137

Originally posted by Mellow_Online1:

Don't quote me on this, but I believe I read somewhere that when developers earn $1000 off the sales of 1 game, that $100 is given back by Valve, it's mainly done to make sure Valve still profit off of a game coming onto the Store even if it fails.

Here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1328973169870947116
(or signing up for Steam Direct page)

How do you think would that help if Valve instead increases sales requirement for those $100 to return?