Whether you're a Valve employee, developer or customer, Steam's an expansive, labyrinthine beast to contend with at the best of times... but it works. Valve's guidelines keep it that way, so when big names defy the rules? It's a slippery slope for Gabe Newell & team if they don't respond decisively!
The bad news is that Xbox just pulled a game from Game Pass on PC because it was putting users at risk of hacking. The worse news is that it was one of their own games.
The petitions passed, the industry responded, and the Stop Killing Games movement is only getting started.
Two games just launched on Steam while breaking the rules of Valve's platform. If they don't follow them, does anyone else have to?
"an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry" - Game Pass's critiques this week seemed to gain ground, as questions of profitability surfaced.