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I don't think you understand what he meant. Helius is abusing a bunch of technicalities and loopholes in Steam's license agreement to host their game on Steam and monetize it off-site without giving a Valve a cut.
Unreal Engine Fallen Doll: Operation Lovecraft [v0.4.9 Cracked] [Project Helius]
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Lmao, it'll never launches on steam, come on !
Honestly there are more chances to see the release of Star Citizen before this 3d porn based money-siphoning abomination
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Monetizing off-site is never a problem to Valve, there are an ocean of crowdfunded games out there offering backers only beta and key resellers selling keys and redeem codes without giving Steam a cut. As long as the game is to be launched as F2P like displayed on Steam Helius is safe, as the key will have 0 value. The problem is that nobody knows when the game will launch.
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They aren't just selling standard keys that will give you access on release though, they're selling virtual currency and release state override keys. The latter practice at the very least is
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.I agree with you that Valve won't do anything as they selectively enforce their own rules, I suspect on the logic that it's a pain to enforce and they'd rather have a subset of devs freeloading than drive any to competing stores, but I definitely think that they should enforce rules like this. As well as others like their false marketing requirements which extend to third-party sites.
At the moment Valve essentially let devs do an end run around those restrictive terms, so long as they don't actually release on steam, and more than a few devs (mostly hailing from Patreon) are definitely starting to abuse it.
The devs said on discord that the patrons won't need another key after beta ends, which means the keys they distributed are most likely standard keys instead of override keys.