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