That's actually pretty clever. I wonder how valve plans to deal with this type of scam in the long run, maybe a script that checks items' descriptions as they go up and flags the suspicous ones.
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That's funny, assuming they would do anything at all except punish users with more tradebans. Maybe next all items you buy aren't even usable in-game for a month.
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LOL beat me to it, I'd totally bet this fake dota item that it will happen....
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Luckily, valve was "fast" and the game is removed with it scam
valve don't give a duck.
One more gem for same "dev" is still in store https://store.steampowered.com/app/763980/Space_Vomit/
So this "dev" could do the same again.
I remember when Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition developer did the same and add Portal 2 item to his in-game store.
In few days devs understood that they made stupid move with adding stolen items to HOG and removed them
https://steamdb.info/app/601530/history/
Removed Item Definitions
digest: 4E9639E30960C0E7AC43E294CF821BE1B6752A8B
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if they had a little control, we would not see dozens of shitty-"games" released every day.
Dev could add item with any image without control? Yeas, and thats mean we will see more looks-like dota/pubg/cs-go items in future
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Oh yeah definitely, compare it to 10 years ago. They actually do a lot more nowadays, even tho they let devs spread a lot of shit games on their platform
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nowadays they do nothing. You can release game with trojan or with crypto-miner. You can release game even without .exe file - thats totally fine.
You can make joke-achievements and use google-translate with mistakes.
You can pay for reviews and add in-game items for easy profitz.
And you can use same assets to make 10 similar games with different names, generate 10k keys for each game and sell those keys to otakumaker ^^
Yes, steam store sucks xD
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they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. The volume is too big to check each game manually without raising costs - but if it gets too expensive, indies can't thrive. So they need to create simple rules that are easy to enforce. But every time they add or change a rule there's massive backlash (see e,g. the recent fiasco when they tried banning porn - aka visual novels)
There is no easy answer and no simple solution. It's not that they don't care, but that they haven't figured it out at least, not without derailing the money train
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There is an easy answer and simple solution, it's called curation.
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that's not actually an easy and simple solution. It's actually arbitrary - how do you decide whether an early access game is going to have a future? what about something quirky and off-beat? And there are plenty of stupidly simple games that still have a market.
And that's not even considering the cost
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We were talking about valve and not only the steam store.
But as I can see, you seem to be very narrow minded, maybe too young to have a proper discussion
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thats nice how u edit your comment, kid
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Its nice how you only focus on that and missing the context.
According to your previous replies, its pretty clear who the kid is.
But nevermind, keep on throwing your memes mister "grown up"
Kid!
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See, just a sad meme addicted internet "grown up"
Your lack of grammar is a reason to laugh
You miss the whole point of beeing able to develop a game on steam.
Again... narrow minded
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You miss the whole point of beeing able to develop a game on steam.
pls, write anything else, u're so funny!
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You are such a hypocrite, blaming valve for all the shit games, yet you collect them.
There is no difference to the real world, like having all those products that no one needs.
But it's actually funny how you got nothing else to reply.
Sadly
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Sadly
don't be sad. If i don't want to talk with u - that doesn't mean that i can't read your useless thoughts. Pls, write more!
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Again, hypocrite.... you are still leaving a response, so you still talk to me.
Are you really already lost?
Blaming valve but shoving more and more money of yours into their system.
But I guess you just keep on replying with your nonsense comments.
Stay on reddit with your lack of English grammar
Edit// I'll stay with calling you a narrow minded ... cause you are too stooopid to have a proper convo
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Cute. Internet warrior that throws out memes when he got no idea what to say.
How old are you? 16?
Edit// off to work, you should try. At least in the real world you could try to be important.
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Good thing you sounded like a very important adult all this time.
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What's wrong with joke achievements, in-game items, and bad translations? Those are all bad things, but most stores won't ban you for them.
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there's no community store in gog/origin/uplay so ofc "most stores won't ban you for them."
Thare's nothing wrong with
- joke achievements - if we don't see asset-flip-trash-rain with 5000 achievements
- in-game items - if devs don't try to make fake tf2/dota items or use store manipulation
- bad translations - there are games where devs don't even try to translate correct
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Direct to Steam homepage for me so I guess Valve vomitted out Space Vomit.
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Some people are really creative when it comes to bad things
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Good. Leave it to the Eastern Europeans to find every possible loophole in a system. We have literally 1000+ years of experience in it. :3
At least this means either people will start to actually pay some damn attention to what they are trading (hah, good joke!) or Valve will have to actually do something meaningful to look at what is happening at its own storefront (hah, even bigger joke!).
Then again, I am almost entirely sure that they will just introduce some new automation algorithm to pretend they care or some other insanely overconvoluted safety action to trades.
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(yes, there are idiots that pay that much money for items)
I like how the Reddit poster shouts "HOW DOES STEAM ALLOW THIS?!!!!" meaning "how does Steam allow faking items" instead of "how does Steam allow items to be valued more than an AAA game" 👀
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thanks, i took a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QbqijINpls
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looks like with steamgifts u try to promote your youtube channel
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Zz78v/how-to-get-back-old-steam-chat
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I am shamelessly impressed. I mean... you gotta hand it to 'em.
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That's somewhat scary, the things people will do to trick another.
If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is.
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the best scams are the ones that aren't too good to be true. Selling a $500 item for $50 is suspicious. Selling it for $450 is plausible - and far more profitable
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That's kinda impressive tbh. And bad. But also creative. Mainly bad though.
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Sometimes i like those scammers... tricking idiots that think digital items are worth real money, hehe... :3
still stealing but i lough about it... someone scammed your 1.000$ digital item wich exist only in I/O, hehe well deseved...
hate me for this comment but i see it with other eyes...
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Speaking of scammers, some days ago I also met a scammer who is impersonating a mannco.trade moderator. I was little bored, so we had a little chat. Here is our chat.
He still want to continue his thing. If anyone know a clever/funny way to keep this go on, tell me below. 🤔😆😅
I am really compassionate about this person for trying to pull out an good old nigerian prince scam. 🤣
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Keeping the scammer waiting is a good way of torture. :D
All I want is some good script to play on him to make him think that I am really interested in this deal.
I want to scam the scammer. haha
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"Scamming the scammer also make you a scammer" - Scammer :D
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yeah, I always thought about this.
It's same as stealling from a thief makes you a thief or killing a killer makes you a killer.
Crime is crime. No one can justify it.
But I really want him to taste his own medicine. 😉
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Much better, at least people didn't start quoting the full post. :)
But now it looks like calling out which will get you warned by a mod as long as you have their name visible.
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or parents
Nice assumption there.
Also, sir, if you use 'sir' more often, sir, it'll make you more appear more sir, sir. Sir sir sir sir!
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Lol, he assumed that either I have friends or my parents love me. 😺
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https://steamdb.info/app/810270/
new scam trash soon LIVE!
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https://steamdb.info/app/810270/items/
they just added looks-like-tf2 items xD
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and they start selling items
for example - DON'T BUY THIS SHIT
Good job, Valve
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This item can no longer be bought or sold on the Community Market.
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My bet would be that the only reason it was that fast was because some moron decided to make a fake CS:GO dragonwhatever, why would they care about other games. :)
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Oh, so maybe those games have players who are easier scammed or louder when it happens. Or their companies called and woke up Gaben making him very angry.
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... like their own store cough, and check for items that are named similarly to items from own products?
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Seems like this went out of hand very fast, and Valve threw in some warning, as well as closing down most of these devs & games.
True, i hope they create a real fix sooner than later.
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And does it also secretly mine bitcoin while you play tha game? 🤣
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i don't have this "game" so can't check xD
probably u should ask Tier 1 buyers :)
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/0UVIX/indiegala-bang-bang-bundle
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No one can blame as the game is literally Bitcoin Miner 🤣
Here is another game accused of cryptojacking.
https://steamdb.info/app/781600/
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Wow.. I never even played that game, not my genre at all (never posted/browsed Reddit too apart from some minutes xD) but.. there's literally a world beneath it.. this scam is so crazy! =\ i'm still trying to figure out how everything happened/is still happening by reading through comments and such..
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I found out about this scam after watching SidAlpha's video about this yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClkx9UzsmE
Valve does not care about shovelware and asset flips, I do not see them cracking down on this form of scam fast enough to make a real difference, right now it's small with just a couple of games doing it. Wonder what it will look like once we give it a few weeks...
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As side effect, Valve now requires approval for any renamings and shows up to two warnings when trading items from these games. (for no playtime and for recent games)
Maybe this helps a bit.
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