Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones
At the Steam Indie Connect developer event on October 27, Valve's Steam Business Team advised developers worried about AI clone games to focus on community building and consistent updates, arguing that player trust and continually added features are harder to copy than a single mechanic. Valve said it does not want to act as a gatekeeper over which tools developers use, and that clone games predate AI, which has only accelerated them. On AI slop at Next Fest, Valve explained that the first two days show games on a near-random basis before personalized recommendations take over, and said it is aware of the low-quality game problem.
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At the Steam Indie Connect developer event on October 27, Valve's Steam Business Team advised developers worried about AI clone games to focus on community building and consistent updates, arguing that player trust and continually added features are harder to copy than a single mechanic. Valve said it does not want to act as a gatekeeper over which tools developers use, and that clone games predate AI, which has only accelerated them. On AI slop at Next Fest, Valve explained that the first two days show games on a near-random basis before personalized recommendations take over, and said it is aware of the low-quality game problem.
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- Valve says community building and consistent updates are the first line of defense against clone games, with or without AI.
- Valve states that using AI in development is a decision for developers, not for Valve to gatekeep.
- Next Fest shows games on a virtually random basis for the first two days before personalized recommendations begin.
- Valve says it recognizes some low-quality games get exposure and that a significant number of people are working on the problem.
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