2) Ban on discouraging others made more explicit . Language added: " organize or participate in coordinated attempts to manipulate ratings or reviews of the Game(s) or related Service(s) (“review bombing”), or otherwise disrupt the Game(s) or its community."
I just want to point out that this formulation " or participate " creates fear in players to leave negative review if they are unhappy with your service. And I believe Its against Steam rules because now you as a developer are influencing players not to leave a negative review.
If 50 or 500 players independently become unhappy with the same update and decide to leave negative Steam review, could an individual player be considered to be “participating” in a coordinated attempt simply because many other players are doing the same thing?
The hardware used shouldn’t be a concern, it’s still your account your logging into unless your logging into your friends account instead and messing about on theirs.
Yeah, as mentioned, as long as you are logging in/using YOUR account, it does not
matter where you are what/who’s system you are using. Just do not play other people’s
accounts and do not let anyone play on yours, and you will be ok.
This isn’t a dictatorship or a third world country - Freedom of expression can’t be stopped with “ToS” , and such a ruling goes directly against Steam’s Creator Terms of Service (Which you must accept to publish this game on Steam) as well as many countries’ general laws.
Best outcome, the court would null this section. Worst for you, you’ll get fined. Again.
This isn’t politics, this is a business. Noone takes away your rights. This is about people coordinating to to enforce that business to do something, by doing something that damages the business. It’s extortion, I personally think.
I wonder what happens if you step into a store and scream “this store is bad, don’t buy here!”…
