. 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.
. 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.