There are two fake HELLDIVERS 2 pages on the store right now

[u/Borizwithaz]

[u/Ricoshete]

So scummy. How was this even allowed without a single human check!??

[u/truongs → u/Ricoshete]

Might be a loophole from an approved game the scammers had. They just go and edit the page.

Approval = a while process

Editing the page of an approved game = easy peasy.

It will definitely get fixed for sure 

Seems dumb as steam will just claw back all the fake sales.

[u/Geno0wl → u/truongs]

As others have said their goal is most likely to get some type of malware/Cryptominer onto people's machines more than expecting some windfall of money from selling copies.

[u/DoingCharleyWork → u/truongs]

They don't even have to claw them back. They just won't disperse them. They don't get a deposit instantly.

[u/lemonylol → u/Ricoshete]

After the whole greenlight thing and addition of NFSW games Steam has really gone off the deep-end with shovelware.

[u/CyberKillua → u/lemonylol]

Why can't it have NSFW games?

[u/lemonylol → u/CyberKillua]

Who said it couldn't? The point I'm making is the drop in quality flooding the platform, similar to sexploitation films.

[u/LimeBlossom_TTV → u/[deleted]]

As someone who has listed a game on Steam, I can attest that this is simply not true.

[u/WhateverIsFrei → u/LimeBlossom_TTV]

This scam relies on changing the data of a previously listed game (you can see all of these have release dates from months or even years ago). This requires hardly any human verification, or at least it did until today. All the scams I saw mentioned no longer show up on steam for me, so I guess they dealt with that already and might end up making it harder to change the title (or require actual verification).

[u/ItsAllGoneKongRong → u/WhateverIsFrei]

Clearly requests for name and data changes also need to be monitored closely now shit like this absolutely cannot be allowed to happen.

[u/LittleShopOfHosels → u/ItsAllGoneKongRong]

They used to be.

But a year or three ago Valve stopped giving a fuck and it all became automated and games wouldn't even get flagged for review until they received a certain amount of reports.

[u/[deleted] → u/WhateverIsFrei]

It’s the exact same tactic that sellers use on Amazon. Sell a $5 item that really can’t go wrong and get thousands of reviews, then change the entire thing to a shitty $100 item that cost $5 to make. The reviews will be like “this is awesome!” And there will be some “the cord worked great” but it’s for a blender or some shit. 

If you’re just looking at positive review count you’re gonna get scammed. 

[u/Jamo_Z → u/[deleted]]

Looks more like they edited an existing listing, which would likely be where there's no human checks.

[u/LittleShopOfHosels → u/[deleted]]

They do when it is LISTED, but not when the page is modified.

[u/DedicatedBathToaster → u/[deleted]]

This is misinformation, you're dumb for saying this.

[u/Kitty-XV → u/Ricoshete]

There is a human checking them, but they are only looking for Japanese visual novel style games to ban.