Permanently banned from Microprose publisher Discord.

[Yskas]

So all Microprose's games fall under their official discord, I ate a 24 hour ban within minutes of going there for the first time for "speculating about the price of a title" I promise you I had less than zero idea about any of their "rules", I naturally complained on Steam, which I see now resulted in a permanent blanket ban across all Microprose titles.

I see Steam is always pushing Discord front and center, but what happens if the publisher's moderation staff go crazy? I've lost access to any official community and support from a publisher instantly and permanently, does that entitle me to strip my account of all their products or is Discord entirely separate from Valve?

[Yskas]

Originally posted by eram:

store pages from developers adding their discord has nothing to do with valve other than they own steam. if a dev adds their link that is not valve promoting discord.

did you think valve added developers discord links?

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

[eram]

Originally posted by Yskas:

Originally posted by eram:

store pages from developers adding their discord has nothing to do with valve other than they own steam. if a dev adds their link that is not valve promoting discord.

did you think valve added developers discord links?

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

you do you. no one here is going to go hungry if you stop buying games. we are all users like you.

[Yskas]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by Yskas:

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

you do you. no one here is going to go hungry if you stop buying games. we are all users like you.

You're not wrong, dude, I'm going to take a break from Steam.

♥♥♥♥ this entire Steam/Discord "structure" or whatever the hell it is.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Yskas:

Originally posted by eram:

store pages from developers adding their discord has nothing to do with valve other than they own steam. if a dev adds their link that is not valve promoting discord.

did you think valve added developers discord links?

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

Sounds like a personal issue, if the facts make you not like steam your free to not use it. It doesn't change the facts that Valve doesn't advertise developers discord's. The developers do that.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Yskas:

I promise you I had less than zero idea about any of their "rules"

Ignorance is not an excuse. This is not discord. Valve are not Microprose. Seems comprehension is a problem for you.

[Stormer]

Originally posted by Yskas:

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

Then go spend your money at gog

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Yskas:

Originally posted by Rin:

Discord is as DEI as most commiefornian companies. You don't judge anyone there, especially not devs and/or publishers. On top of having your data sold they also break GDPR.

I don't know about the DEI stuff but it's insane to me how hard Valve pushes Discord when they can up and turn into a complete competing retail storefront at a moment's notice.

I just don't like that external centralized companies (which are plastered all over Steam stores and Steam forums) has this much power over the products sold on Steam and its users.

I get the feeling there will be regret from very smart people at Valve one day when that site decides to finally go full on retail, they don't have any control of it and they market it for free, what's the worst thing that can happen?

Epic have been trying to stand up a competing store for years and have poured a staggering amount of money to it. Valve has an effective monopoly and discord isn't going to chase that market unless they decide they just have way too much money and need to get rid of some.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Yskas:

Originally posted by eram:

store pages from developers adding their discord has nothing to do with valve other than they own steam. if a dev adds their link that is not valve promoting discord.

did you think valve added developers discord links?

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

The people saying that aren't steam either, and none of us genuinely care where you buy your games.

[Stormer]

Originally posted by Yskas:

♥♥♥♥ this entire Steam/Discord "structure" or whatever the hell it is.

When a company sells stuff on steam they get control of their own game forums and the mods/admins there aren’t part of valve, same with their discord not being run by discord employees

Anything that happened was done by microprose directly so getting mad at the hosting companies for microprose having aggressive moderation is pointless

[Stormer]

Originally posted by Doctor Zalgo:

discord isn't going to chase that market unless they decide they just have way too much money and need to get rid of some.

They actually tried that years ago and ended up shutting it down after a few months due to almost no one wanting to use discord for game downloads

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Yskas:

I see Steam is always pushing Discord front and center,

They do?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Yskas:

I see Steam is always pushing Discord front and center,

They do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Yskas:

Originally posted by eram:

store pages from developers adding their discord has nothing to do with valve other than they own steam. if a dev adds their link that is not valve promoting discord.

did you think valve added developers discord links?

The more I hear "this has nothing to do with valve" the less money I want to spend on Steam, strange reaction, weird.

Because it has nothing to do with Valve. Your issue is with Microprose on Discord.

You'd only get send to a publishers Discord for questions that cannot be answered by Valve or Steam, which usually is anything game related. Cause, you know, Valve not being the developer or publisher does not know such things.

Valve doesn't have to warn you about the Discord of Microprose. Valve isn't responsible for the moderation on there. Valve has no control over any of that. All of that is correct.

Not sure why you want to pin the issue on Valve/Steam in this. That's the strange reaction and what is weird.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Yskas:

I see Steam is always pushing Discord front and center,

They do?

Probably was contacted on Discord by someone who definitely, truly, really, honest to Gabe! worked at Valve, and to prove it, he only needed to give them his login info. I mean, that's pretty much the only presence "Valve" have on Discord is the scammers.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

"I see Steam is always pushing Discord front and center."

No, it actually is not.

NEVER follow instructions to speak with someone claiming to represent Steam Support through Discord or any other chat system, even if they come from a friend's account or claim to be able to resolve a false report.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6639-EB3C-EC79-FF60