Valve has announced that it will likely be altering the foundations surrounding what builders and publishers can write of their retailer descriptions on Steam.
Beginning in early September, 4 sections on Steam retailer pages might be impacted: “About The Sport,” “Brief Description,” “Any Particular Announcement,” and “Awards.” The primary new rule is that no hyperlinks to different web sites might be allowed in these sections, together with hyperlinks to social media pages. That is as a result of retailer pages already having particular hyperlink fields for frequent social media platforms or web sites.
No embedded imagery that mimics Steam retailer UI or buttons might be allowed both, together with ones that seem like wishlist buttons, recreation capsules, or costs. Moreover, no photographs, hyperlinks, or widgets that time to different video games on Steam might be allowed. It mainly implies that builders can’t use the shop web page description to promote different merchandise on Steam.
Steam has carried out different modifications just lately, equivalent to making it simpler for gamers to seek for specific video games, in addition to making recreation demos simpler to find.