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Steam Greenlight sold low-effort asset flips to users

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Democratizing software publication just led to an endless avalanche of garbage. Valve allowed the community to vote on which software reached the store, inevitably resulting in a flood of unplayable, cheaply bought asset flips created solely to farm digital trading cards for pennies.

Steam Greenlight sold low-effort asset flips to users
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