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

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shikamaru317 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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

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

Some of those shovelware games use stolen art assets for sure. I remember a shovelware game a few years ago that Sony's QA team let slip through the cracks that had stolen art assets from Skyrim, stolen UI assets from another game (don't remember the game now), and which had a trailer featuring stolen music from Ori and the Blind Forest. Pretty sure that game was also on Steam at the time.

Do you honestly believe anybody that doesn't want to buy a garbage game like AIDS Simulator will buy it? And even if they do buy it without realizing how bad it will be, Steam has a pretty generous refund policy. The fact remains that there are people who will want to buy that game, alot of streamers/youtubers like to buy these types of garbage games to stream or let's play, because there are alot of people that like to watch streams/videos of broken garbage games just for shits and giggles.

Even if I'm wrong and this will result in even less moderation of asset flip type games, little to no good moderation is still better than lots of bad moderation. Valve proved recently that they can't handle the rigors of good moderation when they attempted to ban some niche erotic games, even though several of the games they tried to ban already had already been censored specifically for the Steam release. Worse yet, they targeted only niche games, and ignored AA and AAA games with erotic content, which was a double standard. People who are that bad at moderation are probably better off not even trying to moderate. 

Nobody needs to buy those games for them to be profitable on Steam, and that's the problem. They are financing themselves through the Steam trading card system by basically selling those to the card collectors

Also, the problem isn't only buying or not - try finding something you don't know the exact name of when over 100 games get added per week