Steam Link Block / Updates to TOS

Early today Steam Community started blocking Gleam.io links from appearing on their site. The reason for this is due to some users had been spamming links on various groups and profiles.

We have contacted Valve, but we are unsure if this is something that can be undone.

As a result of these Steam issues we have updated our TOS. We will no longer allow users to:

• Giveaway game keys purely for the purpose of farming followers for various groups or other social accounts

Steam Actions will also no longer be available on Free plans.

Unfortunately this has gotten out of hand for a few reasons:

• Some of these groups are actively blackmailing developers for keys
• Users are required to jump through too many hoops for a simple key
• Keys for the same games are getting recycled over and over
• Some of these groups are actively breaking Valve TOS by asking users to vote on Greenlight games
• Groups are giving away stolen keys that end up being deactivated
• These campaigns end up eating up to 25% of our resources but drive less than 0.01% of our revenue

We will now actively start disabling Rewards that are used purely for this purpose. We will only allow developers themselves to giveaway their own keys, or approved marketing partners on a case by case basis.