Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Steam list exploit allows developers to promote games using incorrect release dates

As Valve remains silent on the Steam listing of a game which glorifies rape, the platform is now under fire for allowing developers to manipulate the storefront's upcoming releases list to promote their titles.

Mike Rose - founder of publishing label No More Robots - was the first to highlight the problem, and explained the situation in an extended Twitter thread.

"Steam looks at the release date for each title set in the Steam backend, then lists all the titles with decent wishlist numbers, in order of when they are supposedly coming out," Rose said.

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from Eurogamer.net
by March 06, 2019 at 05:58AM

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