Last week, gamers were quick to call foul on a number of games popping up on the latest iteration of Steam Next Fest for appearing to be “AI slop,” and the company behind the PC platform has responded.

Marc Wilkinson, business development at Valve, appeared yesterday at an event in Korea called Steam Indie Connect, and was asked about the hubbub and if the company had plans on how to improve Next Fest the next time it came around.

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Wilkinson explained how the visibility structure of the event works, where for the first two days, “games are shown to players on a virtually random basis,” and then personalized recommendations begin to show after that. This may explain why the first few days of the event especially aggravated players .

“We recognize that the trade-off is some low-quality games get exposed,” he said, according to a report from InvenGlobal (via translation).…