Last week, the average number of simultaneous players in the visual novel GLARE1More Suddenly jumped from 0.8 up to 34 469. Such explosions of interest in little-known games usually happen due to collection cards in Steam. This partly happened this time, but the main reason is still another – paid entertainment began to grab onto a freebie without the knowledge of the developers.
Apparently, the fault of this was the mistake of the service Valve. Gamers could get a free copy by pressing only one button on the game page on Steamdb – a site that helps to monitor statistics and other platform data in detail.
The same fate befell the other https://casinosnogamstop.co.uk/european-casinos/ anime-game- Final Definitiva Remake, RPG Maker collected in the designer. Of course, in this case, greedy players and, probably, their bots attacked collection cards. The author of the game said that more than 175 thousand copies were "activated illegally".
YouTuber Sidalpha rummaged on the forums of developers on SteamWorks (a site providing tools and services for developers and publishers) and seemed to find out the reason for the sharp cheapness to zero. Both games had free versions-the first is available for Internet cafes, and the other has a demo version.
In both cases, the API used by Steamdb directed free links to paid versions of the game. It seems that this problem has affected dozens of small developers – on the Steamgifts website, where you can get games for nothing, other paid entertainments appeared.
According to PCGAMESN, most of the unjustly donated games have already been removed from users’ libraries, and the failure itself seemed to be eliminated. However, many collection cards have already managed to go into circulation, which caused a drop in their value.