Thanks for raising awareness of this Shade!

We've just put up our coverage of the issue today, thanks for making us aware!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/announcements/detail/4157463936692986362

Originally posted by Shattered mind:

Originally posted by Mellow_Online1:

Suspected to have been a previously banned Steam developer: Terro Lunka and Valkeala Software, a number of the games had Terro Lunka email addresses linked to the Support and Valkeala Software's Steam account binded to the Steamworks access.

wait... when was Terro Lunka banned!? I've must have missed that, one of the few downsides of "devs" making a dev page where you can blanket ignore them I guess....:goblin:
well whenever it was that's cause for celebration

still I'd say...there are other developers more deserving of getting booted.... :goblin:

Apoplogies, Terro Lunkka is not banned, but there is association between them and the banned accounts.

Originally posted by Gelweo:

Games from Morning Shift Studios where banned from steam this day. I don't know if this publisher was on survey here (but indeed they look like asset flip)?
https://steamdb.info/publisher/Morning+Shift+Studios/

and in fact, more than 100 applications where banned today from diverses (?) publishers :
https://steamdb.info/?long_history
https://steam.madjoki.com/apps/banned?page=1

Suspected to have been a previously banned Steam developer: Terro Lunka and Valkeala Software, a number of the games had Terro Lunka email addresses linked to the Support and Valkeala Software's Steam account binded to the Steamworks access.

Hi all, just a reminder to please keep all postings on here civil.

I know there's a lot of frustration towards certain developers, but let's keep all conversation and information sharing about them calm and collected. We call developers out for behaviours such as name calling and insulting others, so we shouldn't expect the same things on our forums.

Keep up the good work y'all!

Hi Mcnichoj

Thanks for making this and I feel a thread where the use of AI is discussed is great, however, games that use AI is no longer against Steam policy.

This was updated in January of this year and you can read more information here.

https://steamhost.cn/news/group/4145017/view/3862463747997849618

Long story short, all uses of AI is allowed, but always need to be disclosed on the store page what it was used for. The exception to this rule is in terms of Live Generated AI content in adult games, as these can potentially generate illegal materials, and as such, Steam refuse to ship those titles, and it's the developers' responsibility to ensure guardrails are put in place to prevent this from being generated.

Originally posted by Ryuu:

Yeah, i simply wanted to warn to take this with a bunch of salt. Things that happened to users in that thread and they've written about that themselves — that i think can be believed until there are reasons to doubt. But the statement about bans at best is controversial currently and needs digging deeper, for example maybe such users did something else highly dubious, i don't think Valve would ban anyone over just this exploit — which is Valve's fault.

Definitely a worthwhile question on the matter for sure, and it's great to see this topic getting discussed!

Shade kindly sent his details over via Discord DM and included the RGC forum link. I requested, as was discussed in the group's comment section, that he make either a discussion or send an email to me, which Shade very kindly did both, but didn't wish to link to the thread publicly here as he didn't wish to attract people to respond negatively to the forum there.

I do trust Shade and he used to be a moderator here but had to step away due to other commitments, so I do very much trust Shade's input for what it's worth. I always do say though, best to question, interrogate and look deeper in, so totally get your initial suspicions Ryuu!

More details on our upcoming 3,000-member charity fundraiser!

After a community vote, the charity we'll be backing this time is Doctors Without Borders. Read our article here for more information on the charity, and how you can help us raise funds!

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/announcements/detail/4219386527964911832

New Sentinels of the Store article!

Today, we announce our 3,000 members' charity fundraiser! Voting is now open for the charity that we will be supporting this year.

The link to vote and details can be found in our latest article:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/Sentinels_of_the_Store/announcements/detail/4219386527947017241

Originally posted by Shattered mind:

btw good job on the article, shame you didn't manage to get hard evidence on more devs/publishers before getting banned.

Thanks Shattered Mind!

I know, we're very disappointed, but are working on alternative ways to try and get more games tagged.