[HN Gopher] The game I've spent 3.5 years on has been rejected a...
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       The game I've spent 3.5 years on has been rejected and retired by
       Steam today
        
       Author : lopkeny12ko
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-09-02 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | neaden wrote:
       | I'm guessing from Valve's point of view the reluctance to allow
       | this has to do with potential rights issues surrounding chat gpt
       | and related technologies. It's bad that their communication is so
       | opaque and I don't like their near monopoly status but adding
       | this feature, even if it was semi hidden away, was not a good
       | idea. Hopefully the op on reddit is able to remove it and
       | resubmit it.
        
         | SenAnder wrote:
         | The problem is the op _did_ resubmit the game without AI, but
         | was still rejected for the same reason:
         | 
         |  _I explained exactly how this worked and that there was no AI-
         | content directly in the build, and even since then issued a new
         | build without this mod ability just to be super safe. [...]
         | Then, today, I randomly received an email that my app has been
         | retired with a generic 'your game contains AI' response._
        
           | maxbond wrote:
           | See the comment from /u/kvxdev talking about how they had a
           | similar experience and were eventually able to get their game
           | accepted.
           | 
           | https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/167iied/the_game_i.
           | ..
        
       | throwawa14223 wrote:
       | While it sucks for the dev everyone buying games is better off
       | having these rejected.
        
         | sabellito wrote:
         | Why is everyone buying these better off?
        
           | maxbond wrote:
           | I think this game got unfairly caught in the crossfire (a
           | sort of dead weight loss of consistently enforcing a policy),
           | but it's easy to imagine Steam drowning in low-effort,
           | slapdash games cranked out using AI. Like the junk you see on
           | mobile, where the games are often "minimal viable ad
           | platforms" rather than a "minimal playable games" (and one
           | would hope for more than the minimum, anyway).
           | 
           | Though the top level comment asserting this is probably more
           | about copyright than quality is probably right as well.
        
           | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
           | Steam is already hard to browse because of a sea of low
           | quality shovelware. AI, if that's what the comment is
           | referring to, is likely to make that situation much worse and
           | degrade the platform. And Steam gets that.
        
       | frfl wrote:
       | Unrelated, but what is sh.reddit?
        
         | elaus wrote:
         | On desktop it seems to be an even worse version of Reddit than
         | the default (or old.reddit.com). Three columns of 'content' and
         | the main post text (arguably the most relevant part of the
         | page) isn't even completely visible. (missing reddit less and
         | less each day...)
        
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