{"id":70933,"date":"2024-03-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/helldivers-2-scam-listings-quickly-pulled-from-steam\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:22:24","slug":"helldivers-2-scam-listings-quickly-pulled-from-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/helldivers-2-scam-listings-quickly-pulled-from-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2 Rip-off Listings Shortly Pulled From Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><span><em>Helldivers 2<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em>is formally affected by success. There had already been indicators, specifically the necessity for the builders to improve its servers to carry the <span>sheer quantity of individuals<\/span> who needed to play, however the newest growth is probably going the surest. In a single day, two new fraudulent listings, ostensibly for <span><em>Helldivers 2<\/em><\/span> at some fairly steep reductions, popped up on Steam, convincing new adopters to buy video games that didn\u2019t find yourself being the sci-fi co-op shooter presently setting the world on hearth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 fzSzvw\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 enlHCF instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"196395,195805,196013\" data-current=\"196395\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 biVjcq video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"196395\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"The Week In Games: Co-Op Bug Blasting And More New Releases\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"80\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>The Week In Video games: Co-Op Bug Blasting And Extra New Releases<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196395\/196395_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196395\/196395_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196395\/196395_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/196395\/196395_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/21945.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">As first noticed by <span><em>VG247<\/em><\/span>, the indie recreation <em>Figurality <\/em>had its retailer web page modified to match that of <em>Helldivers 2 <\/em>late final evening, even going as far as to record Arrowhead Recreation Studio and Sony as its developer and writer, respectively. At this level, the sport was steeply discounted by 75% to incentivize unsuspecting gamers to purchase in. Quickly sufficient, gamers caught wind of the truth that they have been shopping for a unique recreation and notified Arrowhead, which took to the official <em>Helldivers 2 <\/em>Discord server and shortly warned others in opposition to shopping for into the rip-off. Valve was seemingly notified quickly after, and the sport was delisted inside a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Coincidentally, <em>Figurality <\/em>wasn\u2019t the one recreation to hop on the bandwagon final evening, with no less than one different faux <span><em>Helldivers 2<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em>posting going up earlier than Valve swiftly dealt with the difficulty. Steam\u2019s refund coverage ought to have the ability to cowl people who booted up both of the falsely marketed video games, but it surely\u2019s nonetheless fairly regarding that anybody can simply do that with few countermeasures in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt took to Twitter early this morning to decry the \u201cdupes\u201d and the truth that they may very well be created so simply:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1763526653467144241&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1763526653467144241\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">A neighborhood supervisor on the equally well-liked survival recreation <em>Palworld <\/em>responded saying that they\u2019d had two comparable scams pop up for his or her recreation at the moment. They famous that, much like the circumstances focusing on <em>Helldivers 2<\/em>, the dupes have been pre-existing video games that simply modified their names and belongings. Although Valve deftly dealt with the issue for each Pocketpair and Arrowhead, all 4 reported cases expose an enormous flaw in Steam\u2019s back-end that clearly must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">In any other case, issues are going fairly properly for <span><em>Helldivers 2<\/em><\/span>, which has capitalized on its newfound reputation fairly properly. With most of its server points out of the best way, gamers have been capable of throw themselves in opposition to the <span>bugs<\/span> and killer robots of the galaxy and proceed <span>dwelling out<\/span> their <span><em>Starship Troopers <\/em>fantasies<\/span>. In the meantime, Arrowhead is spinning up the narrative beats of its galactic conflict and doubtlessly even <span>introducing mechs<\/span> and a returning enemy faction to the sport. Suffice to say, it\u2019s a fairly good time to get into the sport. Simply be sure to\u2019re selecting up the proper copy once you do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/helldivers-2-scams-steam-1851300648\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Helldivers 2 is formally affected by success. There had already been indicators, specifically the necessity for the builders to improve its servers to carry the sheer quantity of individuals who needed to play, however the newest growth is probably going the surest. In a single day, two new fraudulent listings, ostensibly for Helldivers 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12650,6644,3410,9705,1513,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70934,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70933\/revisions\/70934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}