Set Curator Copies of Games to Expire

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crab 19 hours ago

Currently the trading of curator copies for other games or for profit is a pretty common thing. Add this to people using curator groups that they've incentivized people to follow by paying a site like givee, gamesforfarm, keyjoker, opquests, etc to add a task to a giveaway to follow a certain curator or curators. Many curator groups have thousands of followers due to this obviously shady method which allows them to fool developers into thinking they are legitimate curator groups. Regardless the title says it all, this one action, setting all curator copies to expire after a certain period of time, whether it's a month or a year (including past curator copies), would prevent developers from being taken advantage of and people profiting through the abuse of the curator system.

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crab 19 hours ago

https://steamhost.cn/curator/40896498/
https://steamhost.cn/curator/40640212/
The reason I bring this up among many others I've found recently is that curators like this have members trading away curator copies without even having reviewed the games that they were given curator copies for. At a certain point it's kind of ridiculous that this kind of stuff is being allowed to continue. Sure it's not THAT big of a deal, but this obviously isn't what the developers of the games give access through curator groups to people for. They don't intend for these people to in turn not even play or activate a curator copy on their own account but trade it away to benefit themselves without giving the game any attention. Sure a curator group isn't obligated to review a game positively or negatively if they are given a copy of the game, but not even claiming the game for themselves and giving it to someone else for their own gain is a bit much.