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
    31·
    14 hours 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.

    • SpaceMan9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      14 hours ago

      In an interview he said that they warned him about that scene when they sent the preview version…

      While I think the steam monopoly is bad, the developer has acted in bad faith.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        From what I heard they dropped that shit, steam still dropped them and didn’t mentioned why, that isn’t bad faith, nobody was saying it wasn’t an edgy game, and the devs didn’t hide that.

        You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

        I mean lets not forget there are several sex with hitler games on steam.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      13 hours 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
        2·
        8 hours 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
          3·
          4 hours ago

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

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            1·
            4 minutes ago

            One of the things that really weirds me out about gamers is that when they pay 10 bucks for a game they become the most entitled people around (not talking about the people here, just in general, my comments here about steam should also be seen as that), but they never are as entitled towards steam which takes a 30% bite out of that ten bucks for every purchase (*). Even when steam is like all tech companies simply a non-communicative and hard to contact monster of a company. Im still amazed for example that one of my games on my wishlist is simply a grayed out void. (I know what happened and which game it was, a developer who released a game on steam told me how to figure it out, still odd steam didnt tell us why it was removed. Same with the misery debacle (dont get me wrong steam defenders, the dev(s) were at fault there, but steam could have be more upfront about it (they included stalker 2 assets I heard) but it is a similar sort of dmca shit like what is plaguing YouTube).

            *: I dont actually know if keys bought from key resellers like humble bundle for example replace that 30% or if they take another bite, replacing it would explain why humble can sell so many keys at 20% off. Not that I dont have a separate rant about humble (which I suspect will not live very long anymore, as it has been acting weird).