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[–] avater@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

how the fuck is it impossible for me to get a decent, not taken, username in most online games or launchers but these scammers can change their games to whatever the heck they want?

Shouldn't be hard to implement a check if the game name and other info is already listed in the store somewhere else...

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 22 points 8 months ago

Display name vs actual user ID, right? You can change your display name to whatever but the actual account name will be the same. Kind of insane that Steam lets you change quite so much in one go without flagging suspicious behaviour though.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just started typing in common video game title words in Steam's search, and I found several games just called "Void". We can extrapolate that scenario out and say maybe a new game is the first one on Steam to be called Void, but maybe there was an old DOS game called Void that came to Steam later after rights issues have been resolved. There's also the very common situation of a remake and its original version both being available on Steam, and maybe different companies own the rights to each one, like Star Wars: Battlefront. Perhaps these and other reasons are why those checks don't exist, but maybe they will now if these sorts of scams become more common.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

maybe different companies own the rights to each one, like Star Wars: Battlefront

It's going to be really confusing soon because there will be;

  • Star Wars: Battlefront
  • Star Wars: Battlefront II
  • Star Wars: Battlefront
  • Star Wars: Battlefront II
  • Star Wars: Battlefront
  • Star Wars: Battlefront II

Battlefront, Battlefront 2, Battlefront and Battlefront 2 are good, but Battlefront and Battlefront 2 are not good.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You're so god damn wrong. Battlefront 2 was far and away better than Battlefront 2 and I'll fight anyone who says differently.

I do agree that Battlefront 2 was garbage though.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

I concur. At least the logos for the bad ones have "EA" in the middle of them so that you know which ones to avoid.