Valve intends to put more power into the hands of everyday users of its platform

Mar 13, 2014 13:32 GMT  ·  By

More interesting features seems to be popping up on Steam every day now, and after allowing developers to set their own custom discounts and participate in regular Steam sales without Valve employees having to manually push any buttons, it appears that the Washington-based corporation wants to put more power into its everyday user's hands.

Consequently, the new reveal shows that Valve intends to give Steam users a say in flagging offensive titles or games that violate certain laws or are otherwise harmful.

Steam Database has posted an image on Twitter, showing an image of what looks like the store's upcoming report interface, listing the reasons why a product can be flagged.

The list features grounds for reporting varying from legal violations in local jurisdictions, content intended to shock or disgust viewers, adult content that isn't appropriately age-gated to content that exploits children, hate speech, pornography and fraud.

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Steam report page
While child exploitation and fraud are serious offenses, the "offensive" or "adult content" labels could easily be applied to a reasonable number of games already featured on Steam, it is unlikely that such reports will result in a game being taken down.

While it is not yet clear what the impact of the flagging process is, what the actual steps that Valve will take following a report are and how reported titles will be handled after being found in violation of the rules, an official statement is likely just around the corner, as always.

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