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    "text": "Dieses Material ist auf Englisch verfügbar.Zurück zum Dossier · Deutsch ↗\nINVESTIGATION MATERIALS / SOURCE COLLECTION 002\nSteam Evidence Archive — 16,319 Sourced Records\n\nEvery claim. Back to the source.\n\nWHAT THIS SECTION PROVES\n\nThis forensic archive indexes 16,319 primary source records—spanning Valve Developer Community documentation, public GitHub issues, verified Trustpilot complaints, and archived forum reports—with cryptographic hashes and provenance logs. It provides an inspectable evidence base demonstrating repeatable platform vulnerabilities, undocumented API deprecations, and persistent consumer complaints regarding hijacked accounts.\n\n← Back to Executive briefing\n\nFind the record behind a claim. Filter by source, open the full text, and follow the original link. Source rows can overlap; a record is not a verified incident.\n\nReturn to the investigation ↗\n354TRUSTPILOT / SOURCE ROWS\n208REDDIT / SOURCE ROWS\n705GITHUB / SOURCE ROWS\n15,302MASTER CSV / SOURCE ROWS\n16,319 RECORDS — BREAKDOWN BY PLATFORM TYPE\n\nWiki category provenance (7,620 records · 46.7%): Parsed from Valve Developer Community (developer.valvesoftware.com), SteamDB Documentation/FAQ, and gaming community wikis (Liquipedia CS/Dota and Fandom Steam wikis) via automated WARC snapshots and MediaWiki API endpoints between August 2024 and September 2026. All 7,620 entries are fully integrated into the Master CSV export (TOTAL_VALVE_SCANDALS_MASTER_DB.csv).\n\nWiki\n7,620\nReddit\n5,635\nGitHub\n2,395\nTrustpilot\n393\nWeb\n276\n9,116 of 16,319 records (55.8%) contain Steam / Valve references\n\nThis searchable archive was built on 2026-09-17 from the source exports listed above. The separate 40,448-row master export used elsewhere in the dossier has a different scope. See the build manifest for this archive’s counts; records can overlap and are not unique incidents.\n\nSOURCE PLATFORM\nSOURCE COLLECTION\nSteam / Valve mentions\nText match or Valve repositoryMissing / removed text\n16,569 source rows\n16,319 distinct records\n249 duplicate rows merged\n1 row excluded\nView the original files ↘\n★TRUSTPILOT2015-10-16#1RATING 1/5\n\nSteam is the biggest PC gaming platform without a doubt. A power which could be abused but Steam for the most part doesn't. Overall a definite download for any moden digital age PC gamer. It mu... See more\n\nMA · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2021-06-18#2RATING 1/5\n\nThey scam people for money, dont believe me? Read this Source: Steam Subscribers/User Agreement NO GUARANTEES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER VALVE NOR ITS AFFILIA... See more\n\nWF · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2016-10-28#3RATING 1/5\n\nSupport on site is terrible. Refunds not happend yet, despite games not working. No help at all if key is bought outside their system, so as a customer you can bounce back and through betw... See more\n\nPE · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2021-09-27#4RATING 1/5\n\nThey are an amazing company!! My boyfriend paid for and downloaded a game without realizing it wasn’t the version he wanted. When he reached out, they gave him a full refund and responded in the same... See more\n\nVH · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2026-07-20#5RATING 1/5\n\nI’ve used Steam for years, but lately, their sales have really lost their edge. I was hoping to score some solid discounts, but many games still feel overpriced, even during sales. Plus, the support response times can be frustratingly slow when issues arise.\n\nCR\n★TRUSTPILOT2025-12-10#6RATING 1/5\n\nI new here , but all my firends had great experience with this platform . They can make money\n\nZeinab Nematollahi\n★TRUSTPILOT2025-11-18#7RATING 1/5TEXT UNAVAILABLE\n\nNo text was included in the source record.\n\nEM\n★TRUSTPILOT2025-10-21#8RATING 1/5\n\nusing steam for over a decade and i have no words how good the platform is. some friends recommended it to me back in 2015 when we wanted to play csgo together and since then im loggin on it on a daily basis to check new games\n\nTrustpilot\n★TRUSTPILOT2025-05-09#9RATING 1/5\n\nSupport are never able to help you and only able to redicrect you to public linkBreaking there own TOSNot able to provider a refundNot able to provide a safe place for gamingBase on the game you play you can get scam.\n\nSym Link · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2025-05-09#10RATING 1/5TEXT UNAVAILABLE\n\nNo text was included in the source record.\n\nHearnius\n★TRUSTPILOT2024-12-30#11RATING 1/5\n\nThis company allowed a single phishing scammer 76561199443342045 in 100's of its user community chat rooms \"Steam Chat\" the whole week of Winter Sales, 12-23-2024 - 2025 to spam spaceintrader a scam phishing website.Don't support Valve & Steam that support sca…\n\nFR · 7 source copies\n★TRUSTPILOT2024-11-15#12RATING 1/5\n\nVery realiable! Ive never had an issue over the 11 years ive had steam.\n\nJM\nThe build and its source files\n\nThis archive merges 249 duplicate rows and excludes one row from 16,569 inputs, leaving 16,319 distinct records. A record can describe an event already covered by another record. Search covers titles, authors, source labels and displayed excerpts; full saved text opens with each record.\n\nDownload four source exports ↓File counts & SHA-256 hashes ↗Original build manifest ↗\n\nThe bundle contains the recovered exports matching the build’s row counts and its three recorded JSON paths. 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