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Steam Wants Devs to Play Their Games For At Least 5 Minutes First (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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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.

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[–] 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    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?

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