Valve Says It Will Now Allow Everything on Steam Unless It's Illegal or "Straight-up Trolling"

[Bofferbrauer2]

shikamaru317 said:

I'm kind of surprised at the negative reaction by many in this thread. My interpretation of what they said is that they're going to stop wasting their time moderating things that might offend some snowflakes, such as erotic content in niche visual novels, and will instead refocus the moderating team toward actual good moderation. They said they would remove illegal games, which should cover games that use stolen assets, and they also said they will remove games that are "straight up trolling", which would seem to cover shovelware games by definition. *shrugs*

In 99,999% of the cases those assets are not stolen, but freely available with the engines or on the stores of those engines.

Showelvare is not trolling by any definition. Straight up trolling would be a game where the only theme is to troll somebody, like for instance a game where all you can do is produce pelt totalbisquit or Jim Sterling, but not Shovelware. I mean, f***ing Aids Simulator is not even considered trolling by Steam, even though it admits it's a short, bad, asset ridden game. Just look at the game's "features":

Features:
- Asset Flip
- Very short
- NO NUDITY
- Poor performance
- First-person shooter
- Zero effort cash grab

I literally copied that from the storepage of the game. If that's not trolling yet, then you can't consider valve to consider all the shovelware as trolling either, not even by a longshot, country mile and then some added exponentially on each other

In short, what Valve is doing is opening the floodgates even further than ever

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 07 June 2018