As has become a nearly weekly occurrence, Valve has instituted another ban wave of Steam games and once again it tastes like money laundering. I’ve been talking about Steam games being used for money laundering for quite a while now, and it’s obvious that the problem isn’t going to be going away any time soon. … Continue reading “Steam Cleaned: Valve’s Latest Ban Wave Tastes Like Laundering”
About a week ago I published an editorial talking about the existence of games on Steam that cost a lot of money and don’t exactly justify their price. Titles that look like mobile ports or Unity shovelware that nobody seems to play and not only are being sold for money but a lot of money … Continue reading “Steam Cleaned: Valve Gives More Shady Devs The Boot”
Update 1/21/20: Valve has finally intervened and prevented Kartikay from banning the screenshots associated with my account. I’m going to flood this article with screenshots to emphasize how Cyber Watch is a pre-alpha product and also so they show up on Google image searches. It’s time for another update to our Steam Cleaned piece about … Continue reading “Steam Cleaned: Cyber Watch Abuses Screenshot Flags, Valve Does Nothing”
(Update: It looks like a total of 833 games have been banned by Valve today) Bloodbath Kavkaz? Nah, Bloodbath Steam. Valve is currently in the midst of what appears to be a massive ban wave of shady Steam developers, with hundreds of games caught in the crossfire and no sign of slowing down. The ban … Continue reading “Bloodbath Steam: Valve Burns Down The House In Mass Game Ban”
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is making some changes to its keys this week and you can thank international fraudsters for that. Starting today, Counter Strike container keys will no longer be traded or sold on the market. Players are able to earn cases that contain weapon skins while playing Counter Strike but must buy keys … Continue reading “Valve Changes CS: Go Keys To Combat International Fraud”
You may have visited Steam’s workshop in the past and thought to yourself “this Counter Strike section could do with a lot less scam submissions in the workshop.” For those unaware, distributors of unsavory material have been targeting the Steam workshop for years by submitting fake maps with alluring titles offering free skins or free … Continue reading “Steam Cleaning: Valve Now Moderating Workshop Submissions”
Meet Wizhood, a game developed and published by Valve. Well not developed or published by Valve. Or maybe it is? The Steam store says it is. On the latest edition of “Valve Is A Negligent Publisher,” it looks like the folks at Rakarnov Studios noticed that Valve will allow anyone who pays $100 on Steam to … Continue reading “Steam Powered: Valve Negligence Lets Developers Impersonate Them”
Quality control: On Steam, it is virtually non-existent where Valve has a $100 interest in every game submitted. Between fraudware, malware, rape games, publishers heading over to Epic, and secret bitcoin miners being uploaded to the platform, Valve has had quite the PR nightmare on its hands. That being said, it’s been a while since … Continue reading “Quality Control: Valve Approves Obvious Attack on Titan Ripoff”
When it comes to updating the quality of life of its store, Valve is like a particularly slow iceberg. That said, they do tend to get to their destination. Eventually. If you pay attention to the drama of the Steam community, you’re probably well aware of an issue plaguing specifically Counter Strike: Global Offensive and … Continue reading “Valve Combats Workshop Scams With New Update”
It’s safe to say that (outside of the revenue share) one of the best promises that Epic Games has made to potential games is the option to avoid a phenomenon that is becoming more and more prevalent on Steam and the internet as a whole: Review bombs. A review bomb, for those living in bomb-proof … Continue reading “Valve Promises To Nuke Review Bombs”
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