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There are more than 30,000 games on Steam which yesterday, Valve removed over 1,000 games from Steam.
Yesterday, a user on the Steam subreddit may have been the first to notice in their post pointing out that Valve was playing whack-a-mole with the big ol’ Steam banhammer, removing “hundreds” of games from the PC gaming mega store. According to a third-party Steam Tools tracker that sifts through publicly available Valve data, that number now sits at around 1,000.
In a statement to PC Gamer, Valve said it removed the games because of “a handful of partners that were abusing some Steamworks tools.” The company did not offer any further specifics. Kotaku reached out to ask for more information, but we’ve yet to hear back.
Some publishers were hit especially hard, with Valve yanking the entire library of a publisher called Dagestan Technology, which had 48 games on the platform. Other publishers and developers whose games got banned, say Steam sleuths, were connected to Dagestan Technology. Kotaku has reached out to Dagestan Technology, but the company has not replied as of this publishing.
One indie studio that was affected, Idalgame, spoke out against Valve’s decision and posted a screenshot of an email in which Valve said Idalgame’s Steam account had been “used to abuse Steamworks tools for selling bundles to customers.”
“I fell under the ban,” a developer from Idalgame wrote. “I do not think that I abused Steam tools... I wrote in support. I hope this is wrong.”
Yesterday, a user on the Steam subreddit may have been the first to notice in their post pointing out that Valve was playing whack-a-mole with the big ol’ Steam banhammer, removing “hundreds” of games from the PC gaming mega store. According to a third-party Steam Tools tracker that sifts through publicly available Valve data, that number now sits at around 1,000.
In a statement to PC Gamer, Valve said it removed the games because of “a handful of partners that were abusing some Steamworks tools.” The company did not offer any further specifics. Kotaku reached out to ask for more information, but we’ve yet to hear back.
Some publishers were hit especially hard, with Valve yanking the entire library of a publisher called Dagestan Technology, which had 48 games on the platform. Other publishers and developers whose games got banned, say Steam sleuths, were connected to Dagestan Technology. Kotaku has reached out to Dagestan Technology, but the company has not replied as of this publishing.
One indie studio that was affected, Idalgame, spoke out against Valve’s decision and posted a screenshot of an email in which Valve said Idalgame’s Steam account had been “used to abuse Steamworks tools for selling bundles to customers.”
“I fell under the ban,” a developer from Idalgame wrote. “I do not think that I abused Steam tools... I wrote in support. I hope this is wrong.”
