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