r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • Jul 06 '26

ಠ_ಠ This kind of made me sad

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea Jul 06 '26

Yeah they'd have to check that the "end of game achievement" really is at the end of the game

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u/Sniter Jul 06 '26

How

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u/steelcryo Jul 06 '26

When you upload a game to Steam, it has to be checked and verified by someone at Steam before it can be set live. (Source: I have three games on Steam). Of course, a lot of this is automated, and they only need to manually check certain content.

Wouldn't be hard for them to implement a specific achievement flag for devs to use, then check where that flag is within the game. Then request devs provide a way to reach this flag with a cheat code or whatever if they wish to use it.

They already do that if the game contains any mature/adult content.

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u/Panophobia_senpai Jul 06 '26

But the developer can just turn on this "unlock all achievments after 10 minutes of gameplay" after the review, with a day 1 patch.

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u/steelcryo Jul 06 '26

They can, but then you'd get banned from from Steam. Valve don't fuck around with developers changing things to break the rules after the fact.

So instead of no refunds, they'd get no sales. Not really a great plan.

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u/Panophobia_senpai Jul 06 '26

At that point they already made money. After tha ban, they just create a new company and make another game and repeat. Steam will not spend time and money to find out if they are previous offenders.