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What you don't remember where the armies of bot accounts it brought into Steam. People would pay for votes and get scams and money grabs greenlit while indies couldn't even get a foot on the door. YouTube channels made series about playing the shovelware and mocking the system. There's a reason it was done away with.
Yeah this still happens except they sell puzzle games now.