Another day, another publisher picked up by the lure of more money. Deep Silver is the latest publisher to become ensnared in the growing Epic Games Store, with Steam players being notified that Metro Exodus, which has been up for pre-order on Steam, will no longer be on sale as of today. Metro does not … Continue reading “Deep Silver Latest To Snub Valve For the Epic Store”
It must be a day ending in Y, because Valve has terminated yet another Russian developer for publishing a game on the Steam marketplace with the express purpose of scamming items from established Valve titles. In this case, the creator in question was able to change the title of his game to Dota 2, including … Continue reading “Steam Cleaning: Valve Bans Yet Another Title For Impersonating Dota 2”
Who says Valve doesn’t clean up their trash? Other than everyone. Back when Valve issued a new directive that the company would no longer be curating titles with the exception of illegal games and troll titles, opting instead to merely allow its algorithm to bury lower quality titles in the furthest depths of the Steam … Continue reading “Steam Cleaning: Valve Has Banned More Than 150 Games This Month”
Steam has played host to some malicious developers in the past, from Ata Berdyev to James Romine of Digital Homicide, but this week saw Valve’s lacking moderation pushed to a new level as several developers started uploading fake items to their in-game inventories with the intent of either directly defrauding or assisting in defrauding players. … Continue reading “Valve Implements New Policies In Response To Developer Scams”
Actions speak louder than words, and for Valve and Steam nothing furthers the allegations that the company doesn’t put much stock in the quality of its services than the repeated instances of outright fraud that have occurred on the Steam platform over the past few years. We’ve seen meme games, troll games, asset flips, abusive … Continue reading “[Steam Direct] Valve Isn’t Doing Basic Checks On Marketplace Items For Scams”
Gamers in the Netherlands woke up this week to find out that they are no longer able to trade or market items in Counter Strike: Global Offensive or Dota 2. Following a ruling by the Dutch government that Valve’s systems constituted a violation of its laws on gambling, threatening criminal prosecution unless the word of … Continue reading “The Netherlands Litigated On CS:Go Lootboxes, So Valve Killed Trading In the Netherlands”
Valve is once again taking on fake games plaguing Steam, this time focusing on achievements. In a leaked post to the private developer forums, Valve announced that games will now be subject to confidence constraints that will limit how many achievements a game can have and how those achievements affect your account, until the game … Continue reading “Valve Addresses Fake Steam Games Again, Again, Again, Again”
(Update: Since this posting, all of the developer’s titles have been pulled from Steam) Aids Simulator was a game set to launch on Steam on June 12, 2018, at least until Valve shut it down and ripped it off the game store (still available in its archived state) According to its developer, BunchOD00dz, Aids Simulator is … Continue reading “Valve’s Steam Policy: Aids Simulator, No, Suicide Simulator, Yes”
Valve today announced the immediate termination of its dealings with Insel Games. According to the news post, Valve employees discovered that Insel was using accounts to post fake positive reviews for their titles. It has been recently reported on Reddit that the publisher for this game, Insel Games Ltd., have been attempting to manipulate the … Continue reading “Valve Terminates Insel Games (Wild Buster) Over Fraudulent Reviews”
Review bombing is an increasingly popular phenomena by which large scores of Steam users downvote a game for the purposes of protest, be it against the developer or against an idea that the developer supports/does not support. It is similar to metabombing, a similar tactic used to lower the Metacritic score of a piece of … Continue reading “Valve Changes Score System To Block Review Bombing”
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