For years now, one of the biggest issues anyone has had with Valve’s Steam has been the quality control or lack thereof. One of the biggest offenders (in both senses of the word) was Yohjo Simulator, a game known for featuring a reference to the implied pedophilia and the rape of a small girl. It was just one extreme example of the Steam Greenlight system failing, resulting in it later being replaced with Valve taking money for any game no matter the quality. As someone who has played a Cuphead-style clicker and more, there is no end to my hatred for this lack of control.

That being said, Valve promised to curb the relentless new releases that have been abused for several months now. Many smaller developers have found a new message following their desire to change the release date of their game. This message simply states that if you would like to set a date for the release later or earlier than your initial time-scale, you have to contact Valve. If you would like to move the release date up to as soon as possible, you will have to wait at least a few days. Ultimately this will stop specific games always sitting atop the new releases.

This will stop nonsense such as Jailbreak Simulator or the never-ending mirage of sex games such as Mandy’s Room 2: Naughty By Nature releasing several times. Though I don’t believe it surprises anyone to know this is all they are controlling, the quality will still be left to bounce around like the rubberband ball from Bully. It has become a standard to call Valve a little lazy when it comes to mandating their storefront has some assurance of quality.

However, Valve has also promised to moderate the Steam Workshop for three games, three of their own games. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 will now require an approval process following the confirmation to PC Gamer that Valve would like to stamp out Workshop users promising free skins. According to the Steam support page, “The approval process should be completed in less than a day.” Trusted Workshop users will not have to face this process.