Re: (PCGT V) PC gaming is dead, press F to pay respects
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:17 am
Karl wrote:Tafdolphin wrote:Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, do you feel they're using the anime tiddies 'controversy' as a convenient excuse to simply blanket step back from all moderation duties?
I think this is undoubtedly what has happened.
People have been crying out for better moderation of Steam for years. Better as in valid. As in 'moderate asset flip games, moderate offensive content, moderate scams'. Make Steam a more effective and safe environment.
Valve then announced a blanket ban on "pornographic" content. This was akin to Twitter starting to ban accounts that used offensive language during the bot/nazi flood: the accounts that were actually the problem were not affected and a bunch of actively decent users were getting suspended.
Now, Valve have washed their hands of it. They've gone 'well, we tried to do something but it didn't work so now we're actively going to do nothing.' Which is the worst thing they could have done. This is giving asset flippers and scammers free reign, not to mention those who create school shooter simulators and the like. For a lot of tiny, one man developers this is devastating as a market already overly saturated with nonsense will now become exponentially worse, not to mention the fact that anything they put out there has a sizeable risk of simply being cloned or stolen.
Like I say, it's a lazy and reprehensible move from a company that some people still refuse to see as anything but the good guys.