Valve talked about the changes in the digital distribution service Steam. Among other things, the attention was paid to the company’s efforts to remove unscrupulous figures from the store.
Last year, Valve has made changes to the system of trading cards, to solve the problem with a small number of developers who produce “games” that generated income, although nobody bought them and not played them. Was recently eliminated additional methods used by unscrupulous developers.
Valve also permanently blocked several game developers, which corresponded to the description of the “obvious trolling”. According to the company, so developers have no place on Steam and the game with “obvious trolling” Valve is not going to continue to publish.
However, Valve acknowledges that the concept of “obvious trolling” is somewhat vague. She explained it this way:
“On Steam some of them try to annoy users what we call “agrobotany object” (i.e., roughly a program, which technically meets our requirements for a video game, but which penalizes the 99.9% of users). Some are trying to steal inventory items from Steam users, and others looking for a way to make a small amount of money by fiddling with the system developers to use key Steam. Others simply engaged in the solicitation and sow discord. Who knows what ugly behaviors they are designing at the moment. However, common among them is that they’re really not interested in creating and selling games. If the developer behaves in a similar way, so he’s a Troll.”