Valve Will Be Making More Changes to Address Fake Games on Steam

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Valve is working to address fake games on Steam, as uncovered by Reddit user deliteplays. Just like the measures to deal with exploiters of Trading Cards last year, games will now have to go through a “confidence metric” in order to have their achievements matter as some are inflating their achievement count for players to display on their profiles.

Until games meet this confidence metric, they will have the following constraints:

A limit of one-hundred achievements
The achievements won’t contribute to the global achievement count and cannot be shown in a Steam Profile’s achievement showcase
The achievements won’t contribute to a game’s library count and cannot be seen in a Steam Profile’s Game Collector showcase
They won’t be eligible for coupons


Fake games and their achievements were only being taken advantage of by few, and while it may not seem like much, Valve claims that these fake games confuse their algorithms and consequently their users. The algorithm’s primary job is to look at data about games and players and ultimately decide which ones should be shown to players inside the multitude of games that are available in the Steam Store.

While this probably will not affect most of the games you play on Steam, those that are being evaluated will be labeled as such.

Recently Valve announced that they would not be policing titles that get accepted onto Steam, and earlier this year it was announced that the Steam Link not heading to iOS due to “business conflicts”.

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Source: https://www.dualshockers.com/steam-changes-combat-fake-games/

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NickPosted:

I've very happy with this. This is a great change to add.

Miko537Posted:

I used this game called "its village", has like 15k achievements and all you have to do is sit there. Each second you get an achievement. So after about 3 hours you should have most of them. I regret it as it devalues all my legitimate achievements and kinda wish i never did this. They should really crack down on these games.

TOXICPosted:

This is a nice change for sure, very happy with this.

SaxbyyPosted:

Don't personally care but its good for the guys who achievement hunt and do it all legit

TTGPosted:

I believe they should take away people's achievement's if they did this. I've seen people with Level 250 and there's no way they bought trading cards.

MikePosted:

MelissaBenoist Finally! As a person who likes going for achievements in games, its annoying having people idle for 20 minutes and get like 10K achievements, so its good to know that Valve are changing this.


Do you think the people who used this to get achievements will have them removed?

MelissaBenoistPosted:

Finally! As a person who likes going for achievements in games, its annoying having people idle for 20 minutes and get like 10K achievements, so its good to know that Valve are changing this.