Monter Hunter World is the first Monster Hunter game on PC, and it happens to be one of the best.
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No matter if you just a built a PC or if you’re looking to pad your library, we have a list of the top games that you can play on Steam right now. TL DR - I was responsible for Watch paint dry. Or just don’t allow users to set the item to “Released”.
Instead, maybe take an approach where the review of the item has an audit trail by giving each piece of content a “review ticket” or something similar and not allowing the content to switch to the Released state until there is a review ticket for the content.
Something I’ve definitely learned from doing this is when working with user-generated content that first needs to be approved, do not have “Review Ready” and “Reviewed” as two states of existence for the content. I have been in contact with Valve who have now fixed the vulnerability. I will also admit I was very tempted to try and see how far along releasing it I could get, but I think it’s for the best that the app is not listed for sale. I initially wanted it to have “Coming April 1st” and not show up until Friday (though I wouldn’t have expected it to last that long). Tah-dah! I will admit that it appearing straight away in the new releases section was an oversight on my part. This seemed to make a typical AJAX request (though there wasn’t any authentication in it) to Steam and seems to, as it says, release the app. There’s some interesting code, but as this game was a proof-of-concept, I stuck to what was relevant and found an interesting javascript function called “ReleaseGame(appid, data)”.
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All the code for the Javascript functions that powers the source is not obfuscated and readable by anyone (authenticated into Steamworks at least). First, you submit your store page to a review queue, then the final or near-final build of your game, then you are given the option to release it. To give you a bit of insight, before Valve puts anything on steam, they have a 3 step release process. Okay, onto getting the game on to the store.
The server did not check if someone from Valve had already approved this, and just set the status as released. Refreshing the form to get my “editor_accountid” back and changing the value of the select box for “Ready for Review” to 5 from 3 and saving it got to the server as what might be a genuine request from a developer whose trading cards were approved. In this case, I saw that “Released” was value 5.
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So what happened here? To sum it up, when I put in the bad request, it returned a full list of options with their values. Despite it no longer working, I’m not going to give any details on how this was done so please don’t ask! I have good reasons not to. I’m not going to comment on how/why I have access to Steamworks but I will confirm it was not exploiting any web forms, not Greenlight and not through direct contact with someone from Valve. This is going to be a technical guide further down but getting access to Steamworks for me was also what started my investigation into this.
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This is an already outdated guide as Valve have fixed these issues, but if you were to travel back in time then this is a definitive guide on how to release your game! Just another quick note, this is nothing to do with the film censorship protest- I only found out about that today, this doesn’t have as much “meaning” behind it. This is no more than a prank and was merely to test something I’ve been trying to report to Valve for the past few months - the ability to get any game you want on Steam, without Valve ever even having a look at it. And I’d like to apologise if I’ve caused any offense to indie game developers who are struggling to get their games on to steam. I think Greenlight personally is a great platform for people to get their indie games a lot of exposure and it has done and will continue to make working as an indie game developer a viable career option. In fact, I haven’t even paid the $100 “no time wasters fee” to post games to Greenlight. This sparked a lot of controversy (and I, honestly, had a little bit of fun in the forum :p) on Steam as people were claiming that Valve/Steam had lost all quality control for games on Greenlight. If you were on the Steam homepage on Sunday night, you might have noticed a somewhat interesting new title available: “Watch paint dry”. Was getting caught part of your plan? Of course! Watch Paint Dry: How I got a game on the Steam Store without anyone from Valve ever looking at it.
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