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

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Johnw1104 said:

Jesus they're... they're going to "police less"? It's has devolved into the equivalent of those mobile app stores at this point.

Seriously, there's been damn near zero policing to this point... and here I thought that game about shooting up your fellow classmates would finally urge them to engage in a little curating for once, not less. I think the only thing I've heard that were denied were some visialnovels that looked pretty darn close to essentially peddling pedophilia.

I don't get the issue really; steam is a money factory, and yet they always whine as if it is impossible to hire the manpower to look into these games ahead of time.

Same problem as beta-testing the games of developers: They cost money, while the steam curators did all the work for them for free.

If they would hire actual testers and actually test and curate everything that comes to the store they could be forced to develop Half-Life 3 to get the same amount on the bottom line as before curating stuff.

I do understand that it's not very easy though. Right now Steam gets well over 50 games per week. If you want to test them all beforehand you'll need an army of testers and curators to do so.