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I think they're just money-hungry. If you don't accept 100USD before adding the game on Store, you'll lose it because game sucks. This way, you get 100USD and in addition your workers get stuff to do by filtering these trash games => lead to even more money from better games, since previous ones got deleted.

How? Game/achievement count? Unmarketable cards? Does that hurt you?

Not that I particularly care much about it myself, but both of those should actually be considered part of the purchase price of a game, if noted beforehand (meaning, if the game already has (edit:) marketable card drops and achievements available). If they're removed, for whatever reason, part of what you've paid for is being taken away after the sale, and after being advertised as part of the "purchased package."

That just seems kinda wrong to me. :X

2nd edit: I just read Adam's reply, and it seems very apt -- "just incredibly lazy with facing/addressing an issue and sloppy in their execution."

This might be a coincident, because Otaku made a bundle of games from just one publisher. And this publisher got banned by Valve due to review manipulation

Well It might not be random, cause it happened before and Valve included many soon-to-be-removed games in one of the recurring special Monday sales. They made profit (sale fees) from games that they removed two weeks later.

How? Game/achievement count? Unmarketable cards? Does that hurt you?

You ask me specifically? Couldn't care less! But if i payed the bundle just to get +1s or achievements, i would feel conned. It's a fact anyway, people tend to buy things for stranger reasons than +1s on their library. 😛

Again, this would cost too much from their view. In the past Valve has sometimes made a special statement when ending the business contract with a dev/publisher. And as mentioned above, the last general statement explained that they going to allow any kind of game, except if it's just for trolling.

I beg to differ here, many of the removed games were not trolling and people have already started assuming things. If they expressed their decisions more clearly, a customer might consider that and learn from their views. The other day they almost wrote a novel about their steam controller but they can't create a simple log about which game is removed and why?

I was wrong earlier, they're not hypocrites, they're just lazy and sloppy , as adam1224 stated above.

A lot of your logic here is circular in which everything Valve does must be the correct thing to do because it is what they're doing.

Who the fuck cares if it's cheaper for them? That's not an argument. That's not a justification. Yes its absolutely cheaper for companies to turn to shitty automation and relying on customers to do the work for them with subtle neglect and psychological reinforcement (it's why you probably bag your own groceries these days), but that doesn't make it a valid practice. It's a shitty thing done in pursuit of a larger profit at the expense of their product and customers. If the system wasn't so monopolistic, they'd be getting fucked for it and hard. But c'est la vie.

Valve is indeed incredibly hypocritical with the games they unleash. They are willfully flooding their store with trash instead of bearing an incredibly minimal expensive for their level of operations simply because they make money from all those games the longer they're sold.

If you think people haven't been reporting these games until there's a hundred of them on the market, then you're just nuts. There are groups dedicated to pointing these things out and other asset flips which often have them tagged and bagged before release. Valve knows. They just don't do anything about it until these same developers who have been tagged as sketch since day one with incredibly obvious garbage games have already earned for them with months of releases under their belts--then they wipe the board for appearances. All the customers get to shout "yah! good riddance!" with this illusion of due-diligence, but never realize the fact they're so aware of the problem (again and again at that) and they even know to shout here is a function of Valve's willful neglect cycle.. Real due-diligence means an overwhelming majority of customers never even hearing of these publishers or their shit games.

Valve has fucking psychologists on staff. They know exactly what they're doing. Of course they can hire a bunch of grunts to screen the games and serve as quality control The labor isn't even a significant cost to them, but they do wanna earn from the nickel and dime shit games a hundred-thousand times over before they expel 'em to rounds of applause,.

That's correct.

Valve curated sales are daily, midweek and weekend deals. and to even get change to talk about those you need to be doing very well.

I honestly didn't know that. I wouldn't imagine Valve has no involvement in Weeklong deals.

So I guess those naughty devs who predict their forthcoming ban, they desperately push their products in a weekly sale to collect any last penny they can. Go figure.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

:D Probably, but those gibs had a lot of entries. :D

7 games only so far.

Only 6 games removed this week :( Let's hope next week is better!

That, or they still don't know how to handle Daylight savigns time / timezone changes.

First of all, this game is made by Russians for Russians. If you don't know Russian then you're not targeted audience of the game.
The story is quite simple, though, as it refers to recent tragedy in Crimea in a city called Kerch.

So it's super loved in Russia because it refers to the tragedy of Ukrainians not being part of the Soviet Union, makes sense. I guess if it had bottles of vodka as health potions it would be 100%. :)

They managed to "hide" some of their games though, by removing all publisher/developer information. So some of them are still on steam, like this one

https://steamdb.info/app/1023520/

Objection! That's misogyny! We need pixel stimulation just as you guys do or do we?!

You're including man boobs, right?