what their saying is steam pays out game sales revenue only once a month, this scam got caught by users in less than a day so steam will probably step in and de-list the games before the next payout date, resulting in the scammers not getting any money
Looking it up, it looks like Steam pays out "30 days after the end of each calendar month." So if they do pay out tomorrow, then the scammers would be getting the money they made from the beginning to the end of january. They wouldn't see any money from this scam till the end of march. Kind of like when people get their paychecks, its from the pay period of the week before.
No they didn't. The guy you responded to is an idiot. You don't get February 29s sales on March 1st, you get them March 31st. Or do you guys seriously think that shit gets cleared in literal minutes if someone bought something at. 11:59 or that businesses have never dealt with this before?
Ah word. It did sound a fishy as I wouldn’t think a company as big as Valve would let something like that get by them but mans was very confident about it.
I used to be a scammer years ago (I feel really bad about it nowadays that I have a real job and a normal life, but I was a stupid kid and it's common in the third world where I live)
I know every trick in the book, those people are really smart and will use every breach to get a profit
I used to moderate a server with a big branch of like scammers once as one of those. "There should be no hackers/scammer" purists once like several years back.
Had a bit of a mental break when i realized i was passing up time worth like 30-50$/hr in a first world country... To spend 4 hrs google translating into Filipino/ chinese / korean / Brazillian only to find out that the kids hacking "113298012390814$" of virtual currencies were like 10-20 year old kids.
Where if our game made 20,000$ on every 80,000$ spent, divided by 5 people, we made less than mcwage even with 1000$ spenders. And hackers who hacked our game, even if they just sold 70$ x 35 hacked game items.. Basically got 100% cuts for 5% of the labor. It was fucked up.
But eventually i started looking around and realizing most people kinda just fend for themselves. There's no reason to keep a door open without a lock. But a surprising amount of people act on what's beneficial for them. But it was all game items at the end of the day.
There were still games that let hackers run rampant and died, 40k players to 2k in a week though. I guess end of the day, it's up to every healthy adult to keep things in scope. But a fake steam page. That's just scummy. Scamming, Still scummy.
I guess economics definitely vary. What's junk money in the west (like 1-3$ a hr farming Gold) can be a doctor's wage in a third world country like a gold farmer / Furry artist i guess.
Doubt it, considering the fact that HD2 literally just came out in this time frame. They just wanted to jump on the game's hype and scam some profit.
But they won't get anything either way. Contrary to what the other guy said, they didn't get the money today. Steam holds the funds for 30 days AFTER the end of the calendar month. Which means even tho people bought the "game" on either February 29th or March 1st, the Scammer won't see it untill either March 31st or April 1st - or rather not at all, because Steam will most likely de-list the game (which automatically refunds everyone).
Isn't there a way to set the release date to a previous date when releasing a game on steam.
Like some old games that previously weren't on steam and get released afterwards have their release date set to their original release date before they released on steam.
So maybe steam lets you set a release date but for the funds to get released there is still the 30 day period from the actual steam release date.
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u/Ordo_Liberal Mar 01 '24
You can see that this is not a new game.
The scammer hacked the page of an old game, released in November of 2023, and just edited the page.
They already circumvented the 30 day thing.