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[PeterBazooka]

I like this.

 

[L~A]

Surprised it wasn't the case until now.

 

[Akronis]

Fucking finally. This shit should've been day 1.

Glad they're changing this.

 

[Jezbollah]

I suspect this is somewhat to appease the current UK investigation into the No Mans Sky saga.

 

[delSai]

Well that's good.

 

[Glix]

I was just raging about this looking at the PSN sale. I was interested in a couple of games, and when I click on them (web store) no pics, vids, or links to pics and vids.

Its moronic. I could search for media, but it's the principal.

 

[Vuze]

So long, Ubisoft et al

 

[Tecnniqe]

Good, good.

 

[Chobel]

About fucking time

 

[Grim Patron]

Awesome. Rip NMS. rip fallout 4.

 

[pretty done]

wonder if Hello Games will update theirs

 

[Kyuur]

Personally, for many game genres that I enjoy (TCG, MMO, etc) concept art is going to catch my attention more than screenshots will. I can see why they're doing it though.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Well, it only took them 12 years to make this decision. Valve time in action.

 

[Corpekata]

I was just raging about this looking at the PSN sale. I was interested in a couple of games, and when I click on them (web store) no pics, vids, or links to pics and vids.

Its moronic. I could search for media, but it's the principal.

In this case it's more about removing stuff that is misleading (concept art, random troll bullshit for when some idiot sneaks through Greenlight, or just flatout ads for DLC).

The store itself has always been good about having media on it, it's just a few people abusing loopholes that they are closing.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

 

[hemo memo]

Fantastic.

 

[bbd23]

new screenshots on the dota page already
http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/

really like this change.

 

[Krusenstern]

Oh boy. Awesome.
This counts for already published games as well, what? That's both cool and insane.

Can we even report screens that are obviously touched up?

 

[Akronis]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

bro why you do this.

My friends on steam NEED to know when I'm jerking my gerkin to kawaii neko-chans.

 

[How About No]

Great precedent, Valve

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

No never

NEVER

 

[Iva Demilcol]

Pretty good to hear this. If they want to add artwork they should point out the picture is just artwork.

 

[Corpekata]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

Get it right. They are shitty cat-girl maid porno games. Jeez!

 

[TheCongressman1]

I can't see how this wasn't required before.

 

[.:Wesker:.]

This is going to give Koei Tecmo some serious trouble.

 

[Ghazi]

Awesome. Rip NMS. rip fallout 4.

wonder if Hello Games will update theirs

I looked up NMS's store images and would those not count as screenshots? I'm under the impression that Valve is just not allowing cg/concept art, like their dota 2 example, anymore.

 

[Tecnniqe]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

If people want cat girl porn games I'd rather have that on the store then all these copy paste asset flips of zombie games.

 

[Durante]

Well, that's good.

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

Too bad, Valve respects the taste of people who like catgirls

But don't worry, soon you will be able to customize your Steam experience further to match all your personal preferences and objections!

 

[Xamtheking]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

At least its no "open world survival crafting" bullshit thats been flooding the market

 

[MrNelson]

Awesome. Rip NMS. rip fallout 4.

It sounds more like they're just trying to keep things like concept art and prerendered cut-scenes out. Bullshots and the like are still good so long as they're showing gameplay, which the screenshots on those pages already are.

 

[BocoDragon]

I'm surprised this wasn't a policy already.

 

[Zomba13]

I could still see people who really want to exploit it by just having an ingame concept art or something section and then just having a screenshot of that showing the "faked" screenshot. It would technically be in game, as much as showing a menu or something would be, and I can see some of the shittier tier of Steam games doing it.

 

[Corpekata]

If people want cat girl porn games I'd rather have that on the store then all these copy paste asset flips of zombie games.

Why not both.jpg.

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

This is good.

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

I agree with this as well.

 

[PantsuJo]

Finally

 

[rrvv]

Request 3: Take your shitty cat-girl porno games and launch them into the sun, holy fuck

But steam version is all age

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Guessing this is due to the ASA's complaint against No Man's Sky?

Good news, this can only be a good thing.

 

[Tagyhag]

I can't see how this wasn't required before.

They gave publishers too much lenience.

 

[Par Score]

Hopefully they extend this to videos too.

There's no excuse for using touched-up pre-release trailers to show off your game once it's out, Valve should mandate straight gameplay footage.

 

[DangerStepp]

What's up, No Man's Sky?

 

[Justified]

Surprised it wasn't the case until now.

Just like CSGO Lotta, Valve is slow to move until the legal fire is under their ass

 

[Stumpokapow]

Too bad, Valve respects the taste of people who like catgirls

But don't worry, soon you will be able to customize your Steam experience further to match all your personal preferences and objections!

I generally agree with you that restricting content is a fools' errand and instead Valve should open the gates and rely on curation tools, I just very specifically think that awful anime porn stuff should have an off switch.

 

[Phamit]

I wonder if the No mans Sky Refund requests put this on a higher spot on the to do list

 

[SmartWaffles]

Get fucked Konami and Koei.

(Konami used PS4 screenshots of PES while their game is a shitty PS3 port, and KT is infamous for using PS4 bullshots on Steam with a big majority of their games being PS3 shoddy ports)

 

[cyba89]

Will Valve actually monitor this?

 

[fantomena]

This is awesome.

 

[Corpekata]

Thought you guys were exaggerating about NMS but lol, yeah a lot (all?) of their screenshots are from the year+ old trailer that wasn't much like the real product.

 

[Turin Turambar]

Well, so they won't be using artworks now... but mostly, the problem in the industry wasn't artworks, but doctored screenshots, aka bullshots.

 

[TP]

Pretty good to hear this. If they want to add artwork they should point out the picture is just artwork.

That and I'd also like to see the game mode mentioned in the images

Doom '16 for example has a handful of screens of demons in campaign environments that aren't actually in the final game

maybe they were in snapmap, maybe they were added later, maybe the image isn't accurate at all. They should be removed or labeled

Had I known those images were bullshit I wouldn't have bought the game when I did

 

[Hektor]

It sounds more like they're just trying to keep things like concept art and prerendered cut-scenes out. Bullshots and the like are still good so long as they're showing gameplay, which the screenshots on those pages already are.

Wouldn't bullshots count as pre-rendered cinematic stills?