Another developer given the boot.
Another day, another Steam developer booted. Today’s Steam article concerns the ban of a developer with multiple names and multiple games. Four titles, one upcoming, were banned by Valve this week presumably due to trolling and potentially due to follow-botting and fraudulent advertising.
The list of titles includes Angry Toys, Hunting For Trump, Jail Adventure, and Defense of the Ass. These games were put out under the names Homeless St and Kidding St. One commonality between the titles I did note is that three of them have 29 languages listed as supported including full audio, subtitles, and interface. A few reviews note that the language support claim is fraudulent and the games don’t actually support most of the languages listed.
Hunting For Trump and Jail Adventure are asset flips of the same Slender Man game, ignoring that both titles seem to use completely unrelated trailers in their pages. All four titles similarly had drastically high numbers of followers (4-6 thousand) compared to the actual community interaction, implying a likelihood that they were using fake followers to boost their store visibility.
Essentially every game in the library that was banned would fall in the realm of the Internet Memesters Union, fake games by fake developers usually with some ulterior motive. Usually in the realm of obtaining trading cards to farm the game out to Russian bots.
MMO Fallout 