"I'm desperately looking for anybody who knows anybody at Valve": open world satire Future? No Thanks! is still locked in Steam horny jail

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• RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This title is useless difficult to parse because of the failed punctuation.

  The games name is “Future? No Thanks!”.

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• raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Steam Support on the customer side: 🤗
  Steam Support on the gamedev side: 🖕

  Ask any indies working with Valve’s own game engines.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well it’s a nice change of pace from every other company who handles customer service with nothing but bots?

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From what I’ve heard through the grapevine, there’s a serious favoritism problem. If you have an in with a Valve employee or work on a project they approve of, getting assistance from them is easy. Everyone else gets a token response followed by radio silence, and if you’re working on something they don’t want to deal with (like the payment processor mess the OP stepped in) you get straight-up stonewalled.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The token response is automated.

      What you think theyre gonna hire … corpo social media numbers of content reviewers?

      The whole company is like 300ish people.

      They use bots, algos, analytic metrics, to evaluate the absurd amount of all kinds of content on Steam.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … What indies are working with the Source engine?

    S&ndbox?

    Black Mesa Source?

    G-String?

    Do… do you mean modders?

    Almost nobody just outright develops a game they intend to sell, on Source, because you’d have to liscense the engine from Valve.

    Which costs a significant chunk of change.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, I’m interested.

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