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1 | 0Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam (vice.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102640946 70\r |
| 2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)\r | |
| 3 | i from the behind-the-scenes dept.\r | |
| 4 | i\r | |
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5 | i An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard:\r |
| 6 | i \r | |
| 7 | i > Wednesday, Valve, the company that operates the huge online\r | |
| 8 | i video game store Steam, shared more details about [1]how it\r | |
| 9 | i plans to control and moderate the ever-increasing number of\r | |
| 10 | i games published on its platform . In the post [2]published\r | |
| 11 | i Wednesday , Valve shared more details about how it determines\r | |
| 12 | i what it considers "outright trolling." "It is vague and we'll\r | |
| 13 | i tell you why," Valve wrote. "You're a denizen of the internet\r | |
| 14 | i so you know that trolls come in all forms. On Steam, some are\r | |
| 15 | i simply trying to rile people up with something we call 'a game\r | |
| 16 | i shaped object' (ie: a crudely made piece of software that\r | |
| 17 | i technically and just barely passes our bar as a functioning\r | |
| 18 | i video game but isn't what 99.9% of folks would say is "good.")\r | |
| 19 | i \r | |
| 20 | i >\r | |
| 21 | i \r | |
| 22 | i > Valve goes on to explain that some trolls are trying to scam\r | |
| 23 | i folks out of their Steam inventory items (digital items that\r | |
| 24 | i can be traded for real money), while others are trying to\r | |
| 25 | i generate a small amount of money through a variety of schemes\r | |
| 26 | i that have to do with how developers use keys to unlock Steam\r | |
| 27 | i games, while others are trying to "incite and sow discord."\r | |
| 28 | i "Trolls are figuring out new ways to be loathsome as we write\r | |
| 29 | i this," Valve said. "But the thing these folks have in common\r | |
| 30 | i is that they aren't actually interested in good faith efforts\r | |
| 31 | i to make and sell games to you or anyone. When a developer's\r | |
| 32 | i motives aren't that, they're probably a troll." One\r | |
| 33 | i interesting observation Valve shares in the blog post is that\r | |
| 34 | i it rarely bans individual games from Steam, and more often\r | |
| 35 | i bans developers and/or publishers entirely. [...] Valve said\r | |
| 36 | i that its review process for determining that something may be\r | |
| 37 | i a "troll game" is a "deep assessment" that involves\r | |
| 38 | i investigating who the developer is, what they've done in the\r | |
| 39 | i past, their behavior on Steam as a developer, as a customer,\r | |
| 40 | i their banking information, developers they associate with, and\r | |
| 41 | i more.\r | |
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| 45 | i [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-\r | |
| 46 | i really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people\r | |
| 47 | i \r | |
| 48 | i [2] https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/deta-\r | |
| 49 | i il/1708442022337025126\r | |
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