The over-saturation of Steam’s library has been written about at length, being leveled at the service as one of it’s most damning issues. Valve made an announcement several months ago suggesting that the Steam library would be keeping the floodgates wide open, with the exception of illegal or “trolling” titles.
The recent mass bans are consistent with Steam’s previously stated position, which ought to help raise the spirits of a community that has been slightly suffering in recent years. With more services like Uplay, Origin, and GOG slowly chipping away at Steam’s playerbase and taking exclusivity for big ticket titles, Steam’s place as the undisputed lord of PC gaming has been slipping.
Time will tell if Steam will continue to uphold a stricter policy on what games are available through their platform. It’s seemed for quite some time that their policy on new games was changing too quickly for anyone to keep up, but it’s never too late for them to start being consistent.
