. Hideous UI with multiple tabs of 'required' ridiculous information you have to enter in which valve don't even check as seen by the kind of crap that they allow on the platform, you could probably write poopy poop as your company name and it would get accepted. This kind of lax attitude towards financial information about developers could potentially lead to real legal trouble in the future especially if Valve let a particularly disastrous project in that bricks peoples' computers
. Blatant scams or shady projects popping up and getting astroturfed by bots with Valve doing nothing
. Certain multiplayer games are being breached frequently by hackers and are leaking IP addresses of people on steam reviews and forums which is effectively a doxxing attempt and Valve aren't clamping down on the script kiddies doing this or the devs letting this go on
. Upfront fee is a ridiculous concept because as an indie dev especially you're £70 ( $100 ) in the hole just for uploading and it's done absolutely nothing to prevent trash projects going up, would much rather just the commission
. Botting is everywhere and it's pretty blatant now, it is looking like most positive reviews are by bots and don't seem to be real people giving feedback, ironically you have to go to the negative feedback to get anything real on a game by a human being
All of these are valid, valid complaints which makes the article writer all the more ludicrous for whining about valve's commission which they need to make money on otherwise they'd go out of business, that's just how they make their money per sale.
I'd point out that your complaint against the upfront fee clashes with the complaint against scams. The fee was implemented to try and dissuade fly by night assholes doing that.
Now what they ought to implement is a monetary floor for giving reviews.
Well that's the irony of it, even with the fee, the scammers aren't affected by this at all because they can make their money back bumping themselves up on the lists with bot reviews among other tricks and idiots will buy it because they look at the ratings and think nothing of it.
Hence my suggestion, to have a spending floor for reviews. You can't even friend people without spending five or six bucks so why are you allowed to review anything?
Like what?
. Hideous UI with multiple tabs of 'required' ridiculous information you have to enter in which valve don't even check as seen by the kind of crap that they allow on the platform, you could probably write poopy poop as your company name and it would get accepted. This kind of lax attitude towards financial information about developers could potentially lead to real legal trouble in the future especially if Valve let a particularly disastrous project in that bricks peoples' computers
. Blatant scams or shady projects popping up and getting astroturfed by bots with Valve doing nothing
. Certain multiplayer games are being breached frequently by hackers and are leaking IP addresses of people on steam reviews and forums which is effectively a doxxing attempt and Valve aren't clamping down on the script kiddies doing this or the devs letting this go on
. Upfront fee is a ridiculous concept because as an indie dev especially you're £70 ( $100 ) in the hole just for uploading and it's done absolutely nothing to prevent trash projects going up, would much rather just the commission
. Botting is everywhere and it's pretty blatant now, it is looking like most positive reviews are by bots and don't seem to be real people giving feedback, ironically you have to go to the negative feedback to get anything real on a game by a human being
All of these are valid, valid complaints which makes the article writer all the more ludicrous for whining about valve's commission which they need to make money on otherwise they'd go out of business, that's just how they make their money per sale.
I'd point out that your complaint against the upfront fee clashes with the complaint against scams. The fee was implemented to try and dissuade fly by night assholes doing that.
Now what they ought to implement is a monetary floor for giving reviews.
Well that's the irony of it, even with the fee, the scammers aren't affected by this at all because they can make their money back bumping themselves up on the lists with bot reviews among other tricks and idiots will buy it because they look at the ratings and think nothing of it.
Hence my suggestion, to have a spending floor for reviews. You can't even friend people without spending five or six bucks so why are you allowed to review anything?