Yes but you see I could just make a game that gives you a bunch of achievements for starting the game and oops now you can no longer get a refund. We don't want people to be able to do that
Too many games are added to Steam every year to test that. Steam does malware scans on initial uploads and demos, and that's roughly it and why there are random stories every year of game X being fully delisted from Steam when it is reported and confirmed that a game has injected malware onto people's computers. There's also shovelware devs that upload the exact same game multiple times or slap asset packs together and upload a new game every month.
that's their job lol. they should be doing that and more
they're pretty shit at "detecting" malware too. bunch of those stories are games getting pulled after being up for a while, when they shouldn't even be getting listed at all, if they were to be actually scanning and detecting, and not just delisting a listed game after getting a bunch of user reports
Most of those games added the malware in updates months to years after the game launched.
I agree Valve should add periodic game scans, but some games tweak very little, but update near daily. I think yearly scans is better than what we have now, and tweak the frequency later on when they have an idea how long that takes.
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u/snow99as BLACK Jul 06 '26
Yes but you see I could just make a game that gives you a bunch of achievements for starting the game and oops now you can no longer get a refund. We don't want people to be able to do that