Two indie Steam games were disguised as Helldivers 2 to scam players | VGC
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    • Altima NEOEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      Not really. One of them was posted to gamedeals@lemmy.world and I managed to check it out for a while. They literally copied the official Helldivers 2 page, down to the publisher and developer names. Every little detail, even the “news” updates. It would have been very hard to tell that it was a scam, unless you took the time to read the reviews or the community forum.

      I was on the community forum on there and there were a lot of people warning everyone and asking people to report them. One guy in particular managed to link to 5 other store pages that were posing as popular games, that all happened to release at the same time last year and change their store pages at the same time.

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•9 months ago

    In reality, the games were Figurality by SoleOnBoard Studio and Do Not Smile by Whitehole Games. Given that both games were released on November 4 and both were changed today, it seems likely that both ‘developers’ are the same person.

    I hope this is a major wakeup call for Valve. This happens enough times, and gamers will stop trusting Steam.

    • @h3rm17@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Think is, it’s either under 2h of play or 2 weeks on your account. So, if you buy the game cause “it’s super cheap, an amazing oportunitt” and don’t plan to play until say, next month… then you are effed. I guess in this case, since it is fraudulent/criminal, steam would do something, but that’s how they planned on exploiting the return policy.

      • BizzleEnglish
        3•9 months ago

        In practice, Valve customer service is fucking 🐐 and if you explain to them that you got hella scammed they will prob take care of you even outside that window.