Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 14 hours agoEach game on Steam goes through their approval process. Especially
Before your store page or game build can go live, there is a brief review process where we run your game, look at your store page, and check that it is configured correctly and running as expected and not doing anything harmful. This takes between 1-5 days.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s just a way of stressing that The author believes Valve have some culpability.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
It’s mentioned twice by the article. And the term is probably used because that how the gamer addressed it in their post. I can only speculate, I didn’t write the article.
In any case, it’s a huge fuck up by Valve and not for the first time.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 18 minutes ago
I would expect they do, you can never expect anything to be flawless where cyber security is concerned unfortunately.