What people overlook is how Valve removing those barriers to listing directly brought about the indie revolution that’s happened.
While this would be nice, it’s not that hard to design malware that hides itself in certain environments. It’s actually extremely common for more advanced malware to disable itself in sandboxes, for example.
For other reasons, that might be nice though. It at least enforces some level of quality and playability.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 20 hours ago
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Exactly, greenlight was good for the time but sucks compared to what we have now
bless@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
For the curious, stuxnet is a prime example of software altering behaviour under different environments en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet