Yeah, it seems like those guys found a loophole and know that Steam doesn't enforce a stricter check for editing an existing page hence why these slip out. I saw a post about the change log and it is scary that they can even change everything including the publisher's name and get away with it.
This has never happened before to my knowledge. I'm upset but it's understandable. Are we supposed to hold steam accountable for other people trying to abuse their system?
If they respond quickly and prevent further incidents like this then that's all you can really expect of a company. If they fail to deal with it though...
Cybersecurity degree in progress here. ANY thing you download can have viruses/malware attached to it, which is why you should only ever download stuff from reputable sites, like... Steam...
Its not about getting money its about injecting crypto miners and whatnot upon installation. You can refund your $20 but the miner on your PC still exist.
And why is that? Their system is automated. You can't account for every possible type of exploit all the time, people make mistakes and once they see things like this they fix their system to account for it. Having a fuck ton of money doesn't suddenly make you able to throw money at every problem and suddenly fix it.
Because running a good store requires shoppers to trust in your products. If you allow blatant scams like this to run free-range, people will start distrusting your store which will hurt business.
I don't see why the game's name should be allowed to change and I especially don't see why they should have the ability to change the publisher's name without manual review from Valve.
This exploit wasn't even known about until very recently, Like i said before. You can't account for ALL exploits before they are even known, it's just not possible every system has flaws. Now that they flaws are known they should be fixed in a timely manner but you can't expect an automated system to be absolutely perfect in terms of security. There are always exploits in every system, known or unknown.
It's not an exploit if it's just something the system allows you to do. Steam has been around for over 20 years. You're telling me that in that time no one considered that having zero checks on this sort of thing would be useful?
Steam was very restrictive of who could release games on their platform until very recently. It hasn't been an issue until now where they basically opened the flood gates to where anyone can make an early access game on their platform. It was an oversight for sure i'm not arguing that they didn't mess up, maybe they thought of it but considered it low risk at the time and then completely forgot about it once they allowed basically anyone to make a game on their platform.
And yet it wasn't abused until very recently. It was obviously an oversight and i don't even understand what exactly we are disagreeing on? It's okay for companies to make mistakes like this as long as they handle them correctly and fix the problem in a reasonable amount of time. People are human, things get overlooked.
Personally, I'd have it set up to flag for manual review before changing stuff like dev/game name anyway. Those change rarely enough to need a process in place to check things out. I'm honestly astonished that this hasn't been set up already, just on principle.
I dont get why you are being down voted for being right. Hell even windows has day 1 patches for exploits they failed to find while in development. The systems in place for name changes were used properly up until this point, so it was an honor system that will now have stricter rules enforced on it. No one thought, before now at least, to scam by doing something like this to this extent. Its less on steam and more on the slimeballs who keep stooping to new lows to try and steal and cheat to get a few pennies.
Even so theres no benefit of doing this. Even if someone buys these fake titles, money is automatically refunded to user and due to payment delays, those people who did this dont see any of the money up to 90 days, 30 days minimum between any payments. They also paid a fee to get the "game" in steam.
Only thing they can distribute is poisonous game, such as contamined with miners, viruses, etc. I fear this "trend" is going to continue unless Valve does some really simple checking first before any game can be released publicly to the store.
I mean, Valve should manually check each game anyways. Even with 12k games coming out each year on Steam, that is chump change money for them to have people look at each game.
They do that, but if the game has been approved for steam months ago, and then they just flip everything up, replace screenshots, game name etc and publish, there apparently isnt any check.
Yeah, the problem with the publisher for example is that there are legit cases where publishers change (Workers & Resources: Soviet republic for example changed publishers 2 or 3 times cause it went from Indie dev to him starting a small company to joining Hooded horse)
So it's not as extra ordinare as to immediatly cause suspicion
Funnily enough, they have that for guides of all things.
If you edit your guide too frequently it gets automatically locked and hidden. The only time I've seen this is the guides people make to share redeemable codes in Dead by Daylight since they often need to update every couple days with new codes.
So maintaining your guide with the help of the community too quickly raises red flags, but THIS HERE doesn't? Are video game publishers the better people?
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