Game developers share Valve's suggestions on dealing with online violence: It's best to endure it

2025-04-02 21:16:26|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The creator of Coquette Dragoon shared Valve's official advice to developers about dealing with bad players on Steam forums, such as "This is a battle you can't win" that sounds quite frustrating.

Although video games have the power of healing and can bring players together to bring wonderful experiences, an indisputable fact is that sometimes this hobby can be full of bad habits.Now, just take a look at any of the upcoming big 3A games and the over-the-top controversies associated with them, and you can see what I mean.

Unfortunately, the gaming world is full of bad habits nowadays, but there is no doubt that Steam forums is one of the worst things.There, anyone with an account can basically say whatever they want and not be too worried about being punished or managed.While Valve does put some measures against bad players, it's official advice to developers who are subject to malicious attacks, reflecting to some extent how bad things can get.

On the Bluesky platform, Coquette Dragoon creator Ivy May shared a screenshot of Valve's "official document" about developers suffering from malicious behavior on Steam forums.Ivy May pointed out that Valve's advice is basically "No, you can't stop this situation, try not to see this messy vortex". After reading the content shared, it is easy to agree with this.

Admittedly, Valve did propose adding more moderators and asked creators to report the problem directly to them, but some other suggestions are very good at how bad the situation is.One of them reads: “Don’t try to censor players or get involved in public arguments – it’s a battle you can’t win”, while another suggestion simply gives developers a “break” instead of trying to figure out why they are targeting the attack.

Valve even pointed out to developers that such malicious attacks will eventually “return to normal” and that they have seen many cases where the “explosion” of negative emotions will fade over time.This may be true, but it is not very comforting.

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