| Valve cited that these were cheap "fake games" that relied on "asset " with pre-existing assets so that they could be published quickly, and were designed to take advantage of the trading card market to allow players and the developers to profit from the trading card sales | In January 2018, Valve filed for a "special leave" of the court's decision, appealing to the , but the High Court dismissed this request, affirming that Valve was still bound by Australian law since it sold products directly to Australian citizens |
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| Orland, Kyle May 16, 2017 | Valve sought to appeal the rulings, arguing in part that they did not have a physical presence in Australia, but these were thrown out by higher courts by December 2017 |
In September 2013, Steam introduced the ability to share most games with family members and close friends by authorizing machines to access one's library.
12| Another reason would be games that have had their licenses expired may no longer be sold, such as when a number of games published by under license from were removed from the store in January 2018 | from the original on August 15, 2017 |
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| Fogel, Stefanie June 8, 2018 | To help assist finding and removing these games from the service, the company added Steam Explorers atop its existing Steam Curator program, according to various YouTube personalities that have spoken out about such games in the past and with Valve directly, including and |
from the original on March 4, 2016.
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