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Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. (bsky.app)
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Excellent feature. One of the first things I check anyways when buying early access games is when the last news post was.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What you don't remember where the armies of bot accounts it brought into Steam. People would pay for votes and get scams and money grabs greenlit while indies couldn't even get a foot on the door. YouTube channels made series about playing the shovelware and mocking the system. There's a reason it was done away with.