Tag: Quality

Quality Control: Valve Approves Obvious Attack on Titan Ripoff


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 Valve has had a genuinely embarrassing misstep.

Until today.

Twitter user Lekon brought attention to an Attack on Titan unlicensed game being approved by Valve titled none other than Attack on Titan The Game. The title is available in early access for $5 and appears to be a low quality endless runner hastily cobbled together and tossed on Steam.

Koei Tecmo America has provided an official response that the game was not approved to use the Attack on Titan property and that their legal team has already been notified. While this is hardly the most controversial thing to happen on Steam, it is another reminder on how little effort Valve puts to prevent the same troll/illegal games it promised to keep off the store.

Source: Twitter 

Square Enix Convenes Board To Stop Bad Final Fantasy Games


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Siliconera is reporting that Square Enix has convened a special board of advisors to ensure that future Final Fantasy games meet the standard of quality that customers expect from the series. Where was this crew when Square Enix greenlit Final Fantasy: All The Bravest? No en la casa, apparently. The four man group is made up of Naoki Yoshida, whom many of you will recognize as the director whose leadership revived Final Fantasy XIV into what it is today, Final Fantasy XV co-director Hajime Tabata, Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama, and Final Fantasy VI director Yoshinori Kitase.

Many of Square Enix’s other bigwigs are reportedly too busy working on their own projects to spare any time, but the inclusion of Toriyama and Tabata have already raised criticism from the community over their involvement in the games that spurred this board to be put together in the first place. Hopefully they are able to put the series back on the right path.

(Source: Siliconera)