Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviews
Steam forums suck so much, any game with a female protag has at least one thread asking about how ‘woke’ it is or a thread complaining about the game being ‘woke’ because there is a single gay character or smth.
I had that happen with Eternal Strands. Wanted to check about changing controller bindings and I guess the devs made the capital sin of creating a game with a female protag.
It would be more respectful if the forum user didn’t just spam that across hundreds of games. Then you click on the profile and they have 100 hours of TF2 and other f2p games.
And the people who ask “is this game dead?” if there haven’t been any updates recently. No, it’s not dead. It’s just finished. Final. Not in need of further development.
Reminds me of when I saw a thread along the lines of “Can we get an option for a male character? I don’t feel immersed with a female character”. I really couldn’t tell if he was a troll or not. The most charitable reading would be that he also wouldn’t mind more female options in other games, which is absolutely possible, but somehow I doubt it.
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Steam forums suck so much, any game with a female protag has at least one thread asking about how ‘woke’ it is or a thread complaining about the game being ‘woke’ because there is a single gay character or smth.
God. I once wanted to look up some buggy behavior in Control (female protag), the first page of the forums had three such posts
I had that happen with Eternal Strands. Wanted to check about changing controller bindings and I guess the devs made the capital sin of creating a game with a female protag.
Even worse is the constant harassment of indie devs.
Just constant “Is this AI?” And them demanding more and more evidence rather than letting the dev cook.
Tbf a ton of games with AI-generated graphics are not flagged as that despite Steam’s rules, so I’m not surprised that people want more reassurance.
It would be more respectful if the forum user didn’t just spam that across hundreds of games. Then you click on the profile and they have 100 hours of TF2 and other f2p games.
And the people who ask “is this game dead?” if there haven’t been any updates recently. No, it’s not dead. It’s just finished. Final. Not in need of further development.
Reminds me of when I saw a thread along the lines of “Can we get an option for a male character? I don’t feel immersed with a female character”. I really couldn’t tell if he was a troll or not. The most charitable reading would be that he also wouldn’t mind more female options in other games, which is absolutely possible, but somehow I doubt it.