292:. When I look at the list of people who have made constructive edits to this page in the past 500 edits, I see enough variety of editor names and few enough edit wars and reverts to conclude that the page is actively maintained. Esteemed edtior EeepEeep seems to have missed this. As to the question of whether it is "unwieldy", that would be a fair avenue of criticism, but you don't improve unwieldy by deleting the thing - you improve it by forking the page into multiple smaller pages that each address a portion of the information, restructuring its contents, or otherwise refactoring.
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Knowledge (XXG) article on it which (should be) a more balanced view of it than the marketing spiel Steam will have. I agree though, having the list out of date and incomplete reduces the usefulness, but I think that can be fixed. Regardless, correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think "it's available elsewhere on the internet" is a valid reason for deleting an article. Anyway, I'm not too choked up about this one, like I said you guys have some good points, I just don't think Knowledge (XXG) benefits from deleting this article.
823:- Pretty much per Marasmusine, Steam is churning out far too many games every year to maintain a list on Knowledge (XXG) which is accurate. The only source relates to the Steam website. If one wishes to find information about a game, they can look there for the name and then look up the specific article on Knowledge (XXG) should they so wish. A huge list of titles is not going to be of benefit to anyone. We are not a directory of information, we are an encyclopaedia. Regards, --—
802:- This is not like "List of games published by X"; Steam is a distribution method, and a rapidly expanding one. It wont be long before it is comparable to something like "List of games available for sale in ", or "List of games distributed on CD-ROM". Any titles that are noteworthy because they have been distributed via Steam should be mentioned at
271:- You miss the point. When Steam was a small service this list may have had a purpose by illustrating the types of games available on the service, but now it's a major service with hundreds of games. There is no encyclopedic benefit in listing every single one of them; anyone can just go to Steam and look for themselves.
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