".atorb.", "Sekwere" and "bOllO" removed from steam store

Wow, just got it on sale.. certainly, there are projects deserving this measure much more!

holy fuck .
Completely banend the dev and made their stuff unavailable for market usage D:

Also his other were removed too (bollo, sekwere, + 6 more)

Shame they didn't look bad at all.

Also worth mentioning that the developer already received a trade ban due to their abuse of the community system.

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Damn I wanted to get a copy of atorb on tremor but it seems this guy bought them all.

Also does anyone know exactly what he was exploiting? The only thing I could think of is that he was generating items in his games for himself and selling them on the market. I really hope Valve cracks down on this because I have a feeling it's happening in more games.

Dang, going to be a pain in the arse to get Sekwere from Tremor, but beats the one I missed

I JUST bought bollo from the sale too. Sad that I supported them but luckily it was cheap

Not surprising. Atorb was buggy and the dev seemed blind to it.

Just a heads up, tremor still has keys for sekwere, I just got one from there.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother getting these removed games TBH, meh. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the heads up. Got Sekwere from Tremor.

I have never heard of those games. I'm glad Valve is kinda doing something about it though.

does this mean these games' walls and icons will be unique and their price will raise? (if they are worthy though)

I'm glad valve is finally doing something about crappy developers posting fake reviews.
Now hope they get started on the rest of the 100s of developers doing this and a lot worse to exploit steam!

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I had all but Sekwere so I picked that up on TremorGames.

bOLLO doesn't have much to it, and.atorb was a bit tedious, but I was amused by the way the dev was handling the game. Sekwere's a simple idea, executed quite nicely. Overall the games being removed is no huge loss, and it's good to see action taken against this kind of behaviour, but at the same time it's a bit of a shame - I think this guy could have been pretty good as a legit dev.

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For the game .atorb., we will also cease Community Market transactions on items generated within this game as of Feb 15, 2017. Items associated with this game will remain in your Steam Inventory, but will no longer be eligible for sale on the Community Market.
-Valve

Good riddance, not the first developer who tries manipulating the reviews for his own benefit and tries to make profit with his own games' items. This is exactly why they're going to get rid of Greenlight