StellarX

"StellarX" is yet another ho-hum VR exclusive sandbox intended to allow you to create various environments and scenarios in VR... much of which you need to pay a subscription for as the developers deliberately set out to mislead potential users by dumping this in the "free" software section. Deliberately misleading and very greedy pricing aside, this is awful, it's tied into AI slop engines (apparently), the models are low quality... Stuff like this is why Valve is pushing back on allowing people to use Steam to distribute software. Oh also the developers need you to hand over your email address and create a third party account because Steamworks doesn't allow them to profile you, harvest data etc etc nearly as much as they would like. Oh yeah, they'll say they won't, but these are the guys who really really want your email address... creepy. And what's with all the suspicious, fake looking reviews? [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developers response is dishonest, intellectually bankrupt, and deliberately and harmfully misleading. First we must now put this application into context - it's an abject and utter failure rejected by gamers everywhere. This is evidenced by the SteamDB user counts that show a peak user count of only 11 logged in accounts (most certainly some of them belonging to the developer), and this only happened [i]once.[/i] Over 2 years ago. Since then, and consistently, this application only ever has 1-2 users logging on every couple of days, for very short sessions only. Again, quite likely to be the developer. We add that to the fake and insincere looking reviews for the application and you can see a pattern quickly emerging... this seems to be a shady developer. The developer makes the utterly false claim that users "love" AI slop... this is complete BS of course, are we expected to believe BOTH of the users of this garbage love AI slop being baked into crappy applications, and [i]paying for the experience[/i]? You can see the developer is full of crap. Then the creepy part... the developer insists they respect your privacy, when their actions prove that to be a complete and utter lie. If they cared about your privacy, [i]they wouldn't be requiring you to hand over personal details in the first place.[/i] Judge shady developers by their actions, not by their hollow and easily disproven lies. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this garbage AI slop application to anyone.