You do know Bellular News is full of sh*t most of the time right?
He and all the channels like him stir up controversy because it gets them more views than being honest.

Reviews from users who got the game for free from the dev do not count towards the score.
And if someone who got the game for free from the dev and doesnt admit it, Steam can still negate the effect of the review on the games rating.

Steam has ways of knowing. And honestly i would not trust Bellular if he told me the sky was blue and the grass green.

He has also made videos using blatantly false or fake info.

tldw: bloviating blowhard spends more time in a sponsor segment than presenting evidence that nothing happened and nothing will happen as a result of stuff occurring around the july 4th weekend

Originally posted by BlackBlitzkrieg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT82gFzkRvg

Bellular News has a very interesting video about recent Steam Games breaking certain rules w/o consequence and why that might become a problem in the long run

Is there a reason we should care about that person's opinion? Unfortunately I won't contribute to their view count and unless you are able to articulate why their video is important to you then it can simply be disregarded.

Steam rules...
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews#:~:text=Don%E2%80%99t%20solicit%20reviews%20in%20exchange%20for%20any%20games%2C,to%20review%20your%20product%20from%20within%20your%20application.

"Don’t solicit reviews in exchange for any games, DLC, money, or other rewards. The exception is sending a copy of your game to press or internet personalities to get previews or reviews."

Nexon offering in-game rewards for leaving a review...
https://imgur.com/a/Hd10zoJ

Not sure why people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on someone when they haven't even bothered to look at whats being said. It's not opinion, the rules are the rules and Nexon blatantly broke them.

Originally posted by anrkyuk:

Steam rules...
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews#:~:text=Don%E2%80%99t%20solicit%20reviews%20in%20exchange%20for%20any%20games%2C,to%20review%20your%20product%20from%20within%20your%20application.

"Don’t solicit reviews in exchange for any games, DLC, money, or other rewards. The exception is sending a copy of your game to press or internet personalities to get previews or reviews."

Nexon offering in-game rewards for leaving a review...
https://imgur.com/a/Hd10zoJ

Not sure why people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on someone when they haven't even bothered to look at whats being said. It's not opinion, the rules are the rules and Nexon blatantly broke them.

Then instead of wasting time posting go report them.
Or maybe that's what Bellular should have done instead of making a video where half of it is a sponsor segment.
All he does is rile up mobs of users.

I already had reasons to try and report Blue Archive. The reason is a problem with EU Digital Single Market rules for which valve already got into trouble and received a fine; namely unlawful region blocking.

If there isn't any legal basis for it, then a company isn't allowed to geo-block. All of nexons games are available where I live, except blue archive. Reason: unclear.
People think lootboxes (every nexon game has those) -- not the case. They're legal; we don't have an anti lootbox law, but we do have gambling regulations. In most cases lootboxes do not break the rules there and they won't here either.

In any case, the problem is, the region block is preventing me from visiting the store page. Without access to this I cannot report the game. The game also cannot be reported through Steam Support due to the region block (and it won't show up in search, etc.) Meh-

Anyway, naughty Nexon indeed.

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Originally posted by anrkyuk:

Steam rules...
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews#:~:text=Don%E2%80%99t%20solicit%20reviews%20in%20exchange%20for%20any%20games%2C,to%20review%20your%20product%20from%20within%20your%20application.

"Don’t solicit reviews in exchange for any games, DLC, money, or other rewards. The exception is sending a copy of your game to press or internet personalities to get previews or reviews."

Nexon offering in-game rewards for leaving a review...
https://imgur.com/a/Hd10zoJ

Not sure why people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on someone when they haven't even bothered to look at whats being said. It's not opinion, the rules are the rules and Nexon blatantly broke them.

Then instead of wasting time posting go report them.
Or maybe that's what Bellular should have done instead of making a video where half of it is a sponsor segment.
All he does is rile up mobs of users.

Good point. I just reported them but not sure if Valve will care. They do like money but one would hope they could at least make sure to enforce the rules they consider to be worth following equally.

When a thread begins with a clickbait video, one has to question the intent.

What is it really about?

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

When a thread begins with a clickbait video, one has to question the intent.

What is it really about?

I didn't think it was clickbait. I thought it was an interesting story and something worth informing people about. If certain devs or publishers start breaking or Steam's rules or standards w/o consequences, the possibility of that being repeated could cause issues. At least that's what I thought. Sorry for wasting your time I guess?

Originally posted by BlackBlitzkrieg:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

When a thread begins with a clickbait video, one has to question the intent.

What is it really about?

I didn't think it was clickbait. I thought it was an interesting story and something worth informing people about. If certain devs or publishers start breaking or Steam's rules or standards w/o consequences, the possibility of that being repeated could cause issues. At least that's what I thought. Sorry for wasting your time I guess?

The title and picture of the video are absolutely clickbait.

Odd you prefer to defend the video instead of answering my question what the thread really is about.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by BlackBlitzkrieg:

I didn't think it was clickbait. I thought it was an interesting story and something worth informing people about. If certain devs or publishers start breaking or Steam's rules or standards w/o consequences, the possibility of that being repeated could cause issues. At least that's what I thought. Sorry for wasting your time I guess?

The title and picture of the video are absolutely clickbait.

Odd you prefer to defend the video instead of answering my question what the thread really is about.

This statement I made was about your question: "If certain devs or publishers start breaking or Steam's rules or standards w/o consequences, the possibility of that being repeated could cause issues."

This is in reference to the substance of the video that covers the following:
The video covers a big publisher and a successful developer that broke two respective rules of Steam regarding manipulating Steam Reviews and using AI in your game development pipeline and not disclosing it respectively and seemingly not immediately facing consequences as a result of the level of their success and the potential revenue gain they've given Steam. Both recently released games on Steam to wide acclaim but also broken the rules I mentioned before.

Again, sorry for wasting your time.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

When a thread begins with a clickbait video, one has to question the intent.

What is it really about?

Not-so-stealth advertising of whatever promo that grifter is pimping.

Originally posted by HikariLight:

You do know Bellular News is full of sh*t most of the time right?
He and all the channels like him stir up controversy because it gets them more views than being honest.

Belluar stirring up controversy? Since when?

Also he quite literally showed the rule that the company broke.

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Reviews from users who got the game for free from the dev do not count towards the score.
And if someone who got the game for free from the dev and doesnt admit it, Steam can still negate the effect of the review on the games rating.

Steam has ways of knowing. And honestly i would not trust Bellular if he told me the sky was blue and the grass green.

He has also made videos using blatantly false or fake info.

The game is free and you know maybe you should look at the video before just making baseless accusations.

The game is breaking the rules and the reason someone like Belluar is making a video on it is to spread awareness of it. Getting more eyes on the issue.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

When a thread begins with a clickbait video, one has to question the intent.

What is it really about?

It's not clickbait. The video honestly show clear rule breaking of the Steam reviews.

Are you people just in a mood too hate on anything a Youtuber says?

I find that youtuber quite good he's very good at giving information.

Here is the link on their forums.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/3557620/discussions/0/601909292780678855/

Originally posted by Zefar:

It's not clickbait. The video honestly show clear rule breaking of the Steam reviews.

Are you people just in a mood too hate on anything a Youtuber says?

When the video's description is more promo than useful, then yes, expect people to not want to engage with a video. Notice how someone else was able to make a topic here on the subject without resorting to helping a grifter advertise.