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Steam game pulled from store after allegations of cryptocurrency mining

Steam game pulled from store after allegations of cryptocurrency mining

6 years ago
Anonymous $oIHRkISgaL

https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/30/17630664/steam-abstractism-cryptocurrency-mining

There’s been an unfortunate increase in the amount of illegitimate games on Steam. Last September, Valve removed almost 200 “fake” games from Silicon Echo Studios — cheaply made games that developers made to cut a quick profit by taking advantage of the Steam Direct program and the trading card system.

The latest title to come under fire, however, reportedly had a more nefarious scheme in mind: turning players’ computers into cryptocurrency miners. The game is called Abstractism, which was said to not only infiltrate players’ computers with mining software, but also dupe them through falsified items on the Steam Marketplace. But not long after these accusations started circulating, it has been taken off Steam.

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