7. Steamworks Bans

Steamworks is a free suite of tools available to any developer to use in their game or software on Steam.

Matchmaking



Steam Inventory Service



Anti-cheat technology



In-game economy with microtransactions



Management of user-generated content



Per-User cloud storage

7.1. Trading Cards Eligibility

7.2. Revoking Game Bans API

Originally posted by “Banned by Game Developer (Game Ban)” Steam Support Article: Will Valve review developer requests for banning in any way?

Developers must be approved to use this system, and Valve reserves the right to revoke access to the system if the developer abuses it.

7.3. Restricting Keys Distribution

Your key request may have been denied because the request was for a package that contains a release state override for the included appIDs, which would make the content immediately playable upon activation. Unless a request for testing/promo/press override keys is a small batch and properly tagged for use, it may be denied.



If the Key request is intended for commercial purposes, be sure to use a package that does not override the release state of your app.



For more information on keys, please see our documentation here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/keys

7.4. Contract Termination Due to the NDA Breakage

7.5. Contract Termination Due to Review Manipulation, Trading Cards Farming and Toxic Behavior

7.6. Contract Termination Due to Copyright Infringement

Here is a small sampling of the available features:However, for violations related to the contract between Valve and the developer, as well as the developer breaching the Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA), appropriate actions may be taken by Valve in order to punish the offending party by restricting access to certain Steamworks features or even terminating the contract.Uploading inappropriate content may lead to your trading cards eligibility revoked.Developers who abuse their Game Bans feature will have it revoked:Steam key requests are manually reviewed and the history of your past requests and sales is looked into. This means that if you, for example, have 100 sales on Steam and are requesting 500k keys, your key request will most likely be denied and you will receive the following message:All onboarding Steam partners must agree to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA); if the NDA has been breached in any form, Valve has the right to terminate the contract and partnership. An example of that can be leaking Steam Sales dates (which are confidential).Developers are forbidden to manipulate reviews by any means. This includes soliciting reviews by granting players free keys in exchange for a review, posting fake reviews by yourself or using grey-area bot review services.Developers are not allowed to grant licenses of their games to accounts that are involved in a so-called "trading cards farming", a process where a developer generates thousands of trading cards of practically zero value, and then makes community market transactions in order to have a cut from these "sales".Removing negative reviews, censoring users on the forums and showing negative behavior towards your customers is not allowed.Valve will terminate the contract should one of aforementioned violations occur.When uploading content to Steam, you state that you are either an owner of the content you upload, or you have permission from the legal owner to do so. If it is discovered that you have illegally uploaded someone else's intellectual property without their permission, Valve will terminate your contract.