After giving developer ultimatum to clean the workshop.
It must be a day ending in Y because Valve have once again banned a Chinese Steam game being used to deposit large quantities of pirated porn and pirated games. Shockingly this isn’t the first time we’ve talked about such an app, such as EZ VR video player, Dream Girl, etc. Why are these apps Chinese? My best guess is that since China’s firewall is ridiculously strict that this is a way for people to just very conveniently get access to shared videos and other such naughty files. Also China loves stealing intellectual property.
LSPLibrary is the latest victim of Valve’s policy against hosting pirated content, and generally Valve tends to give developers ultimatums to clean up their workshop before banning the app. And I think that’s exactly what happened because on May 8 the developer suspended uploads and made the workshop visible only to Steam customers.
In order to cooperate with the platform review, the upload function is now suspended
On May 12 uploads were reenabled with a warning that the following content is now prohibited, showing you exactly what kind of dubious goods people were uploading:
Hate speech, i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people
Sexually explicit images of real people
Content that exploits children in any way
Any pirated game
Unsurprisingly the uploads immediately continued, and if you look at the game’s forums many users were enthusiastically breaking the new rules, resulting in the game being banned altogether. What this also means is that since a game being banned wipes the workshop and everyone gets automatically unsubscribed to those items, that users are logging in to Steam to find their two hundred gigabytes of “study material” suddenly deleted from their computers.
Whoops.
Don’t use Steam to host your porn and pirated games, Valve will probably ban you. Eventually.
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