▲ 49 ▼ Two indie Steam games were disguised as Helldivers 2 to scam players (www.videogameschronicle.com) submitted 2 years ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) Hellclivers 2 vs l-lelldivers 2: the kerning wars. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not really. One of them was posted to gamedeals@lemmy.world and I managed to check it out for a while. They literally copied the official Helldivers 2 page, down to the publisher and developer names. Every little detail, even the "news" updates. It would have been very hard to tell that it was a scam, unless you took the time to read the reviews or the community forum. I was on the community forum on there and there were a lot of people warning everyone and asking people to report them. One guy in particular managed to link to 5 other store pages that were posing as popular games, that all happened to release at the same time last year and change their store pages at the same time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quinkin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Yes... But that didn't work as a joke. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Not really. One of them was posted to gamedeals@lemmy.world and I managed to check it out for a while. They literally copied the official Helldivers 2 page, down to the publisher and developer names. Every little detail, even the "news" updates. It would have been very hard to tell that it was a scam, unless you took the time to read the reviews or the community forum. I was on the community forum on there and there were a lot of people warning everyone and asking people to report them. One guy in particular managed to link to 5 other store pages that were posing as popular games, that all happened to release at the same time last year and change their store pages at the same time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] quinkin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Yes... But that didn't work as a joke. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Yes... But that didn't work as a joke. permalink fedilink source parent