Developers of Custard Castle: Small Claims Court, you've been warned.
It's not uncommon to see a Steam game's key art overcrowded with award logos, review scores, and discount text. It's a way for publishers and developers to convey that their game is worth considering, but it can also be annoying at best, misleading at worst. To eliminate both annoyance and potentially suspect behavior , Steam has imposed a new rule that will do away with them entirely.
According to Valve the most obvious problem is that award logos, reviews and discount adverts clutter the image, often shrinking the actual game logo to the point of indecipherability. Other problems include the use of review scores"that are no longer accurate", as well as the baked-in use of English language text that is"isolating much of the Steam audience that doesn't speak English.
So there are some new hard-and-fast rules about store key art, or in Valve's words,"store graphical assets". Starting from September 1, review scores, award names and discount marketing copy are all banned. Similarly, any"text or imagery promoting a different product" is banned, as is any other"miscellaneous text".
These new rules compliment existing rules that were a little more vague; you can read all about it in
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