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