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This evening, Valve emailed me re: a report I wrote about some of what I believed to be games that AF still owned on Steam.
AF denied these claims, alleging in the X post that all of these titles had been reacquired by other developers/publishers.
Valve said they would investigate.
4 minutes after receiving this email, a further 7 games were banned from Steam.
Seemingly another lie from Cristian.
Granted, there were more games I alleged to still be owned than just these 7, but no action has been taken as of now.
I will accept the results that come of Valve investigating the games, and any games remaining after the next few days I will remove from our curator.
https://x.com/MellowOnline1/status/1826376718187372881
The news of Atomic Fabrik's removal has travelled quite far in some international spaces, so much so some large gaming news outlets in Brazil, France and Spain have been reporting on it. Very well done to everyone who stayed on top of the Atomic Fabrik case.
https://br.ign.com/steam/128383/news/valve-remove-248-jogos-do-steam-mas-isso-e-uma-noticia-boa-uma-das-empresas-mais-sacanas-da-platafor
https://www.3djuegos.com/pc/noticias/valve-acaba-eliminar-250-juegos-steam-buena-noticia-se-ha-cargado-a-empresas-oscuras-que-habia-su-tienda
https://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/1914832/steam-a-decide-de-retirer-ces-248-jeux-video-de-sa-boutique-mais-c-est-une-excellente-nouvelle-ils-ont-mis-la-plateforme-de-valve-dans-l-embarras.htm
This is clearly a threat. Probably an empty one.
The bit about charity is also obviously a lie from someone who's already demonstrated zero moral integrity. If he was donating to a charity it would feature on every single one of his games pages because it's a major selling point.
As to the whining about "not changing anything", well, Sentinels, again Cristian is wrong.
The work that you guys did to get those scam games removed from Steam has sent a message to other scammers that their actions won't be tolerated forever by Valve. Cristian and his scams were a primary source of the pollution on Steam and they're gone. Those who would follow in his footsteps will think again.
That's a definite, and positive change. Congratulations guys, you did it.
Usually Cristian keeps his mouth absolutely sealed tight because criminals know if they jump when called out for doing something they know is wrong, it only makes them look more guilty.
Now that he got caught, he's lost his ♥♥♥♥. Good. Maybe now he'll try to think twice about using Steam as his personal scam machine.
The actions of asset flippers, review manipulators like Cristian Manolachi are not harmless.
With someone who is willing to take advantage of others for financial gain, of course he had no qualms with trying to harm your reputations in return.