Hard Shark Games/Johnny Ginard - Asset Flipper stealing games, faking reviews & banning critics

Seems history of Digital Suicide Homicide repeats itself.

Aw man. Johnny is back. That dude is special.

I respect that group (I mean, "Sentinels of the Store") but aren't they doing the dirty work that Valve should be doing, but for free?

Damn, it's like he is down a checklist of shitty scammy things you can do on Steam without Steam doing anything about it.

And as if stealing off random devs on itch.io wasn't enough the guy also uses a wallpaper of Kratos in the "screenshots" for the game he lifted on Steam lmao

Seriously he really is just testing to see how far he can go without being shut down..
Call Guinness...

Publishing 36 games in 1 day should trigger an automatic flag at valve and should start an investigation, in fact publishing 2 games in 1 day should do that. Should they be found scammers, thiefs, fraudsters, etc, every name, address, personal information, payment information to publish the games, ip's, hwids, etc. associated with the dev/publisher acc should go into a perma ban system, for in the future when someone attempts to sign up for a steam dev account to insta ban them.

Then there should be a program where these companies share this information to ban across platforms to prevent a shitty person from just trying this on another platform.

I can understand them not maybe being able to find info of whether a game was stolen or not before it gets published or until they're made aware of it, like in the case of the group above, they too used information found by someone else after which they looked into it deeper, otherwise they wouldn't know either.

But yeah kinda weird of steam to have such weak defences against this.

i dont get how is this a viable strategy for anyone to bother doing? even if he put absolutely 0 effort into it isn't there still a mandatory $100 fee to publish a game? and let's say he goes on to sell those keys for pennies to some shitty bundles, surely there's no way it makes a living