Random Access Mutterings: Veteran of The Tiberium Wars

There's a downside to being an older gamer which I don't think I'd ever really considered before.  I can remember the origins of some "new" games, recalling the source material of the games that came before them, and watching in faint horror as they're repurposed into something contemptible.  A recent article on Kotaku covered Electronic Arts' new mobile game, Command & Conquer: Rivals, and the writer caught all manner of hell for it from commenters.  In some respects, the commenters were wrong.  In others, they were absolutely right.

Letting Off Steam

Valve is catching hell over its recent decision to allow pretty much any sort of game on Steam, with the caveats of anything "illegal" or "straight-up trolling" still being subject to scrutiny.  Naturally, people are freaking out.  They foresee the descent of Steam into a cesspool of hateful "games" which will serve as positive reinforcement for abhorrent behaviors.  Somehow, I doubt this is what will happen, at least as far as how some pundits are looking at it.