Hello Veebles

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The evidence presented in the post seems very damming. I will see about forwarding the user's findings off to my Valve contacts, as this definitely is in violation of review policy.

I will post here again if/when I hear back.

Thanks again.

Originally posted by Mellow_Online1:

Hello Veebles

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The evidence presented in the post seems very damming. I will see about forwarding the user's findings off to my Valve contacts, as this definitely is in violation of review policy.

I will post here again if/when I hear back.

Thanks again.

No, thank you Mellow, as always :)

Was alerted by Valve earlier today that the games have been pulled, they have also posted an announcement regarding it:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/games/595930/announcements/detail/1648758546782820163

*golfclaps* sir

that was faster than i expected.

Guess Valve really doesnt like review manipulation with fake-accounts.

If only all of these devs/publishers were so easy to get rid of. Not just from Steam, the real cesspool is the mobile market.

Frankly i don't see as much fake crap on Google Play as on Steam. Maybe because they don't have trading cards :)

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Frankly i don't see as much fake crap on Google Play as on Steam. Maybe because they don't have trading cards :)

More like because their algorythms got quite good at hiding the worst under the carpet.

Originally posted by Hibachi:

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Frankly i don't see as much fake crap on Google Play as on Steam. Maybe because they don't have trading cards :)

More like because their algorythms got quite good at hiding the worst under the carpet.

So that's all Valve needs to do?

...

Google hide new releases now, and far more than how Valve's doing it.
Meaning if you're not big and or lucky enough to get Google's attention and a place in the spotlight, you might as well just not release anything, cause the chance of anyone interested finding your game by chance are now close to zero.
Even more than with Steam.
Your best bet would be to stick with whatever clone of a popular game you can do : since those terms will be searched, you will get some attention... except the customers will just go grab the real thing if available.

Should Valve do that?
No, they should give up and get some humans to do the job.
No need for a big number of them (maybe 10 contractors at first, and then when the shitstorm calm down due to actual curation, reduce it to five or six permanent workers) .
No need to judge the game on the whole, just have them play and make sure it's a real, functional game.
It's nothing for Valve and the odd games would still have a chance at getting noticed.
Going the Google way would be going too far.