The Steam game store is 75% to 80% of the market for video games. Since January last year, Steam has had an AI disclosure policy on games. This is instead of just rejecting games with AI in them, a…
    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      18 days ago

      A bit yes, but also not great. See how they treated the horse game, which prob will cause the studio to close. And the whole not standing up against payment providers when they try to ban porn in general. (Think they might have done a small thing, but it took long, and wasn’t coordinated), and then there is the moderation issues, the etc etc. Still Steam is better than Epic, but that is only because Epic is just bad as a storefront. Steam is lucky they didn’t work on that harder than they did and assumed they could just get away with giving free games (it still can’t properly keep you logged in).

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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        18 days ago

        See how they treated the horse game,

        The game where the preview version they sent to valve had a scene where a little girl asks to ride a naked man? And then rides the naked man? That horse game?

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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          18 days ago

          I dont know, as steam has not told anybody why they object to the game. You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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            18 days ago

            You confused me complaining about the process

            So what is your complaint? That Steam is not obligated to host every game submitted to them? Or that Steam does not take the time to provide a point by point critique of every game submitted to them?

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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              18 days ago

              That they are a bad publisher, don’t provide good feedback, their tools on the developer sides suck (the stories I heard from people who have released things), they don’t help out smaller developers out at all, the 30% fee if you are small less fee if you are big thing is silly, that they are opaque as fuck when dealing with them, their moderation sucks (see how long it took them to do anything about review bombing for example), etc etc.

              a point by point critique of every game

              nice bit of bad faith there.

              • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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                18 days ago

                How DARE you criticise my dear perfect little baby boy Steam, my lawyers will be contacting you shortly,