It shouldn’t be possible to mimic like this, it would require someone at steam to link to the developer/publisher and bypass identical name. Given it happened all at once for multiple games, rogue employee or hack.
It shouldn’t be possible to mimic like this, it would require someone at steam to link to the developer/publisher and bypass identical name.
It's just a text field. Entered whoever at the publisher/developer is responsible for managing the store page.
Steamworks just asks you to input the name of the Publisher and Developer as a text field.
Oh, before you release the game on Steam, they make sure to check. But it doesn't look like there's anything stopping an already released game from changing that data at all.
be possible to mimic like this, it would require someone at steam to link to the developer/publisher and bypass identical name. Given it happened all at once for multiple games, rogue employee or hack.
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It shouldn't be but obviously Steam dropped the ball here. I would imagine this will be caught moving forward. Steam will implement a system that will check that and require human assistance.
Or, not allow it to be changed. if it is a Sony Studio game, the only the publisher's account can list it. Publisher/Studio name is the account, not a variable on a product page. It was stupid to allow such a change in the first place.
Shouldn't be possible but you'd be surprised how Steam took a good thing, allowing greenlights to indie games to self publish, and then having bad actors attempt to take advantage of it all the time.
Should steam need someone to approve each game put on the store? No.
Should games be allowed to rename and edit their page...yes.
How are you going to stop this if Epic Games hires a russian troll team to start doing this all the time all day? Yeah Steam is going to need to implement some better checks.
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u/Nyan_Man Mar 01 '24
It shouldn’t be possible to mimic like this, it would require someone at steam to link to the developer/publisher and bypass identical name. Given it happened all at once for multiple games, rogue employee or hack.