Is a Steam Curator Claim trade legit?
The trading thing, fake followers, low conversions in the long run, etc. is why I don't think we gave any (or very little) copies out for our game via Curator Connect. The whole system is a joke. Can't say it wasn't a nice idea on paper, though.
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I think I've done this type of trade before without knowing -- this guy gave me a link of a crap ton of games and told me to only claim the one we accepted a trade for. Man, I wanted to claim more lol
in the poll, it does seem that No is the prevalent answer, however, the way you (@Movac) explain it, it seems legit just a bit dishonest.
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Legit but in my opinion, super dishonest to TRADE for it!. We occasionally give members access to claim a Curator game, but only with the understanding that they have to play and review it, and never with the intention to get something out of it for ourselves.
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I've traded for curator games several times before, it isn't inherently a problem for you...as long as the trader themself is legit.
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Those curators and steam accounts should be permanently banned. These make honest curators whose doing a lot of work to their curator page some bad reputation too. I declined trade offers many times in the past, even if they offered a wishlist game because they wanted to give me the game this way.
Never accept such trade and every time report the curator for trading away the offered games.
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Curations that sell/trade curation games should be banned.
And the people that trade such games away are human trash, without honor, in my eyes.
My curation will never do such stuff and i should better not hear/see which other curations do it...
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He = isn't a curation/owner of a curation = i don't talk from the OP
Curations curate games from devs and can get them for free if the devs/publishers want to send a copy/copies.
Some curations trade that games away.
And that curations + people behind should be banned.
Clear now ?
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At least the small curations buy the most games by themself.
As example have my curation (67 followers) got 1 game offered directly at steam, without writing with devs/pubslihers.
From that ammount none are happy or can make a curation only with it :)
Because a part of our team are beta testers for a small publisher we got 8 games from that, 2 because a part of our team know small devs from translation work done for them, 3 from direct contact, 2 from curation friends that promoted us to publishers/devs.
In the end, for our size fantastic, 15 games extra but only got with connections.
But 15 games aren't enough for a curation too and you don't want to calculate how many hours you invest IF you make real reviews and not "one sentence reviews" -that a lot do-.
In the end it isn't worth to invest the time "for profit", only if you have fun at writing and review games.
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Looks like one sentence reviews are working as well :D
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In pur(e?) numbers YES ...
But i am absolutly sure that 360k followers came from a big network/group and a lot of promotion pushs with that.
I seen the same from different other "groups/networks" that have then by themself 5-25 groups + partnering up with 20 other ones and promote it at a lot of cheap promote sites with very cheap games (that get normaly kicked from the steam store before you get a +1 for them :-D ).
A lot of people jump through burning wheels (= make a lot of stuff) for such "games".
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Hi,
I am doing a trade but someone stated that it's a Curator Claim. I do not know what this is. S/he is stating that we both need to be online in order for it to work.
Is this legit?
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