Out of curiosity I looked through the games even the banned ones, and I don't know how much of a difference it makes but two of the games still on Steam have 2 publishers listed, I wonder if that's why they're still there.

River Town Factory -
Dev- iFAction Studio
Publisher- iFAction Studio, BD Games

Ancient Abyss-
Dev- Screambox Studio
Publisher- Screambox Studio, BD Games

Both games have their devs marked as publishers along with BD Games, but Soul street only BD Games is publisher.
All the other games banned only had BD Games as publisher. Don't know how Soul Street avoided the ban hammer.

I could be wrong, but that's the only differences I saw.

I looked at the KS comments and someone said 5 years ago they got banned from the steam discussion so looks like these devs have always been pretty shitty.
I noticed going through some of their discussion for Theme Park Studio and Roller Coaster Rampage there's not a lot of negative comments to be seen.

Definitely worth raising a stink but sucks they're banning people even their backers.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jvnko:

"that he lost that account because it got hacked, but now he has it back?"
Yeah

"Which that account that just recently commented to you is only friends with this other account who's been arguing with you. So assuming he randomly got it back?"
It's the same guy, and commented that even though previously saying he wants this to stop, apparently not i guess

Oh I saw that lol,

dynamitebtw May 12 @ 11:24am
can you leave me alone please jvnko? im sorry for whatever ive done and i thought we ended this. i wasnt using it as a threat i was using it as an example of what i could do based on your logic. just drop this as theres nothing to gain and im busy with something else rn so i cant keep up with whatever you are saying now.


It's just seemed odd how even 3 days ago he was saying he couldn't work on game anymore then all of a sudden he got it back and commented "womp womp" to you on your review

But I do see now that he got the account back 2 days ago.

Honestly, if this has been an exploit going on and off for a few years or so, then it's on Valve to try to fix it and do something about the people abusing it. It's hard to tell if anything is being done besides refunds since they haven't said anything, though to be fair I don't think they would want to bring more attention to this exploit at the same time.
If people are getting banned for the exploit not a lot of people are going to admit that's why they got banned, some will admit to it, but not all.
It wasn't your doing someone else brought in the post so it's not on you at least.

And if people are stalking you across groups... Then that's on them for being unhinged enough to do so.

Ursprungligen skrivet av shade00:

i see that some see this as a joke and followed over from the other group
since people do not want to take this seriously enough
im finished trying to research into it for now

Who cares about the trolls? Because this has been a really respectful group minus a troll here or there but it's still pretty minimum.
All's I can say is keep up the good work and don't let anyone drag you down, or push you to give up on what you're doing.

I read through that whole thread and it was definitely wonky.
Valve should do something more, but if there's exploits and the only thing they were doing is refunding then people are going to keep trying and abusing it.
People are going to keep doing stuff like this until Valve actually does something about it.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jvnko:

Recently has started using his actual account for the game and posted this comment
https://imgur.com/a/guEs1jI
seems to want to aggravate

??????
Maybe I'm confused, but he stated here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/2015140/discussions/0/4355617604374802687/

that he lost that account because it got hacked, but now he has it back?
Unless everything's been a lie.
I can't tell, he's unhinged.

ETA: Which that account that just recently commented to you is only friends with this other account who's been arguing with you. So assuming he randomly got it back?

LOL they pulled it off the store pretty much claiming that the game wasn't EA ready but it'll be back soon enough to buy

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/611300/discussions/0/3601219829877176219/

This is becoming more of an issue with shady devs, but if they're bad enough to the point where people are getting vac bans for speaking out about their shady practices... that's insane. The fact that this has been an issue with this dev team for so long and valve isn't removing them is bullshit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1c5i4l4/task_force_devs_are_abusing_game_bans/?rdt=32876

lol there's even a facebook group that was created October 31 2022 calling this a scam and is still active
https://www.facebook.com/groups/572523681304160/about

I changed my review settings and I see all the off topic
Every single review even from the day this came out is being counted as off-topic.

Hopefully steam actually does something and removes the game off their platform ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

100 Christmas Cats is a good example of people leaving this review on a SP game lol.

This is not the first time I've seen a review like this, or very similar to this, it's a "copypasta" review. It's a pretty well known and reused review.
I remember seeing something similar to this on a SDV review, and for a few co-op games. Same review for games that ARE NOT even co-op.
This has been around for a couple or so years now, it's just another comment people have stolen to use on reviews for other games.... and it's a 'review' people can sympathize with or think it's wholesome and is used to farm for points. I've seen a couple of these with 500+ points.

Always the same kind of story- "trying to spend more time with my son, so I get game, and he hosts then we play and have fun and we have gotten much closer now!"
Same story every time.

Here's a thread from 2022- https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/275850/discussions/0/3421061982929860289/

Reddit post for the review on Terraria- https://www.reddit.com/r/Terraria/comments/s94txm/a_widowed_father_reviews_terraria_made_me_smile/

Another reddit post making fun of it here-
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/10o94sz/im_a_45_yo_father/

Here's one from r/copypasta on reddit made 2 years ago-
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/u1wodn/i_am_a_45_yo_father_on_steam/


ETA: The Terraria review has over 1k points. So yeah it's just a reused review for point farming.

Ursprungligen skrivet av PerseidX:

'GraVe23723', who I think we can safely assume is the developer, has deleted all of their posts, but nobody else's it seems.

Not gonna lie, this is all probably more entertaining than Hare itself.

All of grave's comments have been deleted and they put their profile on private. lol.