o/

Valve usually bans developers when some form of fraud occurs somewhere along the line.

Because it's not a matter of quality of games but of the actions of some publishers - which happened to publish lots of bad games.

In the chance that you will get in trouble for it, you can always just undelete the games.

I believe that you will get flagged on an sgtools check as having an unactivated game on your account so best just leave the trash visible. You do not want to get suspended.

No. That's the point of doing this lol

As far as I know, the reason for the ban is circumvention of Steamworks restrictions by setting up sockpuppet accounts.
Lots of them. 25, according to a report, for a total of 838 games, 138 DLCs, 5 demos, and 1 tool.

Which is even scarier when you compare it to overall stats, as it's ~33.8% of total bans, or ~44.3% if only counting games.
They started banning stuff ~2 years ago, so that means they banned during those 3 hours more stuff than in the rest of the year.

When a publisher gets booted from the store, everything they ever published does, regardless of quality.
F for the whole Steam Gifts community, especially the staff who's gonna have to cope with the ensuing mess, and knsys who's gonna have to add all that stuff to SGTools's whitelist (and those who still had keys, as they have probably been invalidated).

According to the dev on Reddit, he had a publisher who did all sorts of abuse - from selling keys on g2a to faking reviews and giving keys to card-farms... he had to go through court to regain rights and access to his own game and Valve knew of this... and then when he did, steam removed it a year later because it was "connected to that publisher".

Of course, this is their side, who can be sure...

Apparently OutDrive is restored (source; a post in french below, but the storepage is back and it's no longer on Madjoki's list...)

Yeah, a bit, too... At least, I'll miss a very few, includind these princess.loot.pixel.again episodes ( And Soaring Pearl Tom, which was nice enough for a cheap game... :( ...Hope I won't find other bad news. ).
But, ok, I do agree that, most of the lasts massives bans where trash, too. And there is still work to do, I guess... It's just a bit sad to see good little things going down the drain amongst these crap.

( Oh, and I guess, too... :/ Do I've to forget about suggesting a "crappy" theme for a next PAGYWOSG month ? )

Same. Luckily Anatoliy Loginovskikh's newer games are self-published, but I really intended to get all the old ones still. They were cheap and often on sale too but I always said "next time" :(

I think this ban wave is not just about game quality, but also about publishers that violated some Valve "rules", hence their entire repertoires gets banned from Steam.

Now your account value is less than 100$ and you no longer qualify for steamgifts.

lol. Bet they still have hundreds of keys left- I feel a "removed game bundle" coming on soon.

Lost 260, but I recognize most of the games so, that I had them from gogo/otaku, not IG but yeah, IG has a lot of crap bundle too.

I hope the banwave keep going, I would like to enjoy a shovelware-free steam.

Now we can start playing the games we already bought and never played.

+1 You can add : Goodbye my king , soaring perl Tom , princess.loot.pixel.again 1 and x2, Midsummer night, Electric Highways, OutDrive etc...
that weren't bad...

the dev from Dungetris had in alot of games broken Achievements and abadoned the projects to make a bad sequel to most of his games and he used some wrong tags for some of his Games & his games were available for some cents on russian sites .
I didnt dislike his games ,but i mean there are enough reasons to remove his games .

Because they list them on the market?

With so many games, may I ask you for the number of files and size of this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\appcache\librarycache

Yes, why should they delete quality games like Metro or Red Dead.

what does it matter? if you bought the game and activated the key, it's yours to keep. Install it whenever you want, the game is still there in your library

Steam has now surpassed 40K games, so it would take significantly more bans then this to get even vaguely close to Epic.

Because they share publisher, who got banned.

It's the usual Steam stuff.
They only have 2 employees who do any work, and they use hastily written scripts to do everything.