> It means that the Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. Unless you don't have any opinions, that's guaranteed to happen. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist.

I don't like the "both sides are the same" tone in this response. Imagine someone who makes an explicitly-racist-game-for-the-sake-of-being-racist. What kind of game would they "hate and not want to exist"? Probably like a game with feminist messaging or something. The implication is that somehow these two games are equal in speech value and counterbalance each other?

It's basically saying: "There's awful shit here, but now YOU are allowed to say awful shit too!" I don't want to say awful shit.

There's a difference between allowing a full range of opinions, and allowing garbage. This is a storefront. Nobody would bat an eye if Valve set a moderation policy with clear guidelines. It's normal for a store. Instead they just say, "screw it, literally anything not illegal is allowed." To be clear, I'm fine with a fairly loose policy and with controversial games, but please have SOME policy to weed out the useless bits.

Now when a developer makes an honest game, they can watch it briefly blip by the "new releases" page as "Kill the Jews Simulator DLC #13934" floods the rest of the page. It's just another burden for honest developers who have to deal with their games getting diluted by shovelware; now it's diluted by horrifying shovelware.