Can't I just make easy money by posting a fake game on Steam?>create amazing fake screenshots and trailers for a nonexistent game>upload the "game" to Steam for $60>it's just a jpg that says "lol" but the person won't know that until they've already bought the game>if I sell 1000 copies I get $60,000>16,000 copies and I'm a millionaire It is literally that easy.
Your game gets refunded and most games don't sell more than 10 copies.
>>83281064people can refund games with less than 2 hours (maybe it was just 1) play time i think, also if enough reports come in steam will ban you and take your earned money
>>83281064Even if refunds didn't get in your way, I'm pretty sure Valve has a fail-safe for blatantly false advertising and would remove it from the store as soon as possible even if it got past the entry criteria. It's a low enough bar to have your game greenlight on Steam these days, but not that low.
>>83281064There's a 2 hour no questions asked refund window on steam, not to mention that if it's quite literally straight up not a real game then you'd be sued for false advertisement.Not to mention to get any serious money your game would have to be popular and that's obtained more via streamers nowadays than anything else. The best way to make a cynical cashgrab game is to make some sort of asset flip streamer bait (proximity voice chat, multiplayer, rougelike elements, gameplay where you can easily die no always via your own fault so the streamer can farm those epic reaction clips), price it for less than 5 bucks then pray some semi-big streamer tries it out.
>>83281064>it's just a jpg that says "lol" but the person won't know that until they've already bought the gameYour problem is here, because they'll get a refund.Even if you're in a third world country, your bank is going to have to pay the money back. And the bank is going to come after you for that money.
Don't reinvent the wheel, make a kickstarter like everyone else
>>83281064they send steam agents to fucking kill you
>>83281666>if it's quite literally straight up not a real game then you'd be sued for false advertisement.People forget that big corps have thr resources to go after you if you took their money or damaged their reputation