I have a lot of indie devs following me, so I thought I'd give you a lil PSA
If you're sending out keys to content creators? Please treat steam curators with utmost skepticism, there's a huge network of fake curators who are running a massive scam, so please double and triple check them.
If you're sending out keys to content creators? Please treat steam curators with utmost skepticism, there's a huge network of fake curators who are running a massive scam, so please double and triple check them.
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Here's the curator reviews for Mouthwashing. Scroll down past the first dozen or so curators, and read some of the blurbs about the game. Let me know when you notice it.
https://store.steampowered.com/curators/curatorsreviewing/?appid=2475490
I don't suppose there's anything to do but "ignore" those ones? No report system or anything...?
What a wonderful scam!
This is 100% on Steam for this shit. There's so many with the same copy pasted recommendation as well.
Steam has this feature called Curator Connect, where you can send games directly to curators, no keys to resell, right? But any curator can add someone else as an admin to their page, and they claim the games they're paying for before being removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSx3ez70Rlg
Go to any game's steam page, scroll down to just above the reviews to where it says "What Curators Say" and navigate to that. Scroll past the first few, and if you notice any repeated blurbs that sound like they were written by an AI? You've spotted the fakes.
Check if they have any kind of presence outside of their curator page, do you recognise them, is the person a journalist, YouTuber, streamer, or content creator, and you can see they're real people who are actually playing the games? You've found the real ones.
Never giving rando curator copies ever again
But this is a great way to build your ">Ignore this curator" list!
Especially when the curators in questions have differing reviews for another game several of them have listed, so it’s not a pure mirror every time.
Oh god this is the environment I'm putting my shitty game out into aaaa
Now I'm tempted to update it just for the sake of adding a little humanity back to into the cycle.
Then I got down to the part I’m pretty sure you were talking about.
Hm a little sus
"Can't wait for AI to take the jobs of all woke devs"
Yikes
"A unique and humourous take!
A unique and humourous take!
A unique and humourous-"
AhhhhhHHH
It took a long time to get to it, but… yeah… wow.
I mean, I wouldn’t mind playing a unique and fun take on personal hygiene but that sounds more like Pokémon Smile.
cuz those -TOTALLY LEGIT CURATORS- seem to think so!
Hmmm I can't really see what she's talking about
*Scrolly scroll*
Jeeeeeesus fucking Christ.
A unique and humorous take on personal hygiene! The gameplay is fun, and the art style is quirky. Perfect for a light-hearted gaming session!
Whats the scam?
The only one I follow is uh...cough cough...Hella Yuri
Some curators go further and will threaten to review bomb games using their bots that don't give them free crap.
I don't know why I had such high expectations