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submitted 10 months ago by Lamb@lemmy.zip to c/steam@lemmy.ml

I had a person tell me in game they hate black people, then left a comment on my profile referring to black people as black monkeys. I reported them. About five times. Steam does nothing. Their comment would be still up if I haven't removed it manually after one of many reports resulting in nothing. Their profile is full of proof of it being a long term continuous effort. Their account has a high level, which makes me think it may be why Steam seems to be protecting them. I reported people in the past and stuff was done about it. It's my first time dealing with blatant racism AND no moderation effort from Steam. I even ended up messaging steam support about my concerns and got a generic response which amounted to nothing.

I see people speaking up about poor moderation on other platforms, so I chose to speak up about Steam's as I'm really tired of this bullshit.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

We need a federated game launcher platform!

Some guy on Mastodon already made some framework for achievements, so it's not undoable. Issue would be a copy protection, which depending on your standpoint, either is completely malicious, a necessary evil, or a mandatory thing for anything other than a free game made as an experiment. Having an open source copy protection method would immediately guarantee a workaround, the best we could achieve is to disable some official servers, achievements, etc.

[-] kryllic@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Link to the project? I'd like to follow the repo if possible!

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

It's called #Gamerzilla, and the dev's at is @dulsi

[-] dulsi@mastodon.gamedev.place 1 points 10 months ago

@kryllic @ZILtoid1991 There are several repos for #Gamerzilla as it has the server implementation, the C library to add it to games and several other libraries for various languages.
https://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/

this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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