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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Disclaimer: I used Steam once.

Has anyone done any research into the quality of these 18,000 titles? What kind of uptake there is, how many purchases/downloads, etc. ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Anyone who gives steam $100 can upload ~~as many "games"~~ any "game" they want. There is no quality control.

It's a common scam to throw some free assets together to make "collect coin" and then swap the coin asset out with a stick and call it "collect stick" and then swap out the stick with a brick and call it "collect brick" then upload all of them to Steam and bundle them into a 50 game pack with a sale price of $100 (95% off!) and hope someone buys the collection thinking they're getting 50 real games at a steep discount.

Here's an example. It's a 33 game bundle for 99% off its original price of $8,579! They're all the same "game" with different free assets made by the same dev who uploaded 167 versions of this "game" to steam on March 28, 2024 and priced each around $200.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Clarification: It's $100 per game. And they give it you back once your game earn $1000. https://store.steampowered.com/sub/163632