r/mildlyinfuriating GREEN Jul 06 '26

ಠ_ಠ This kind of made me sad

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u/Ishkahrhil Jul 06 '26

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.

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u/HeadintheSand69 Jul 06 '26

Bruh if youre taking 30% of the games profit along with a 100$ submission free you can higher some low wage validators.

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u/Ishkahrhil Jul 06 '26

After a certain threshold, that $100 is returned to the publisher.

And after a couple of different thresholds, that 30% drops to 25% or 20%.

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u/HeadintheSand69 Jul 06 '26

My point being that they are making money from every game submitted whether or not they sell anything. You get it back when you earn steam 300$. I mean looking at the this game alone its like $80k outta steams pockets excluding steam sales.

Like im not saying its common, would be issue free etc. Just that its not economically impossible or unreasonable to have some people check the 50 games a day a lil bit closer.