Valve now requires developers to launch their game through the Steam client and run it for at least five minutes before submitting it for review, as part of several new additions to Steam's pre-release checklist. It doesn't have to be the developer playing, since anyone's playtime counts, as long...

Apparently, Valve keeps getting builds that were never run through Steam at all, which is how games end up with broken launch options or missing depots.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    29·
    13 hours ago

    We are now living in time where the platform holder asks the developers to at least play their game for 5 minutes. The quality bar is that low.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      12 hours ago

      Tim McSweeney next week:

      Steam’s terrible choice to demand that developers play their own game is incredibly anti-consumer and is cyber-bullying me specifically. How can anyone compete in such an unfair ecosystem?