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Two indie Steam games were disguised as Helldivers 2 to scam players
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Hellclivers 2 vs l-lelldivers 2: the kerning wars.
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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Not really. One of them was posted to [email protected] 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.
Yes... But that didn't work as a joke.
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.
How would this get around Steam’s return policy?
It didnt.
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.
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.
I saw that actually. Almost fooled me until I saw they had about 10 reviews each.