rainwarrior wrote:
I'm not certain that Valve even has that kind of policy at all. I think they tend to reserve the right to react to problems as they arise, rather than provide a strict list of requirements up front. (I did some searching of the documentation available to me, but I don't really see anything that would apply here.)
There are also a large number of Steam games that have DOSBox in them.
Why do you even think Steam has an anti-emulator policy? (And why would they?)
I only know what I was told when I contacted them about getting the game on Greenlight. I don't know enough about this so all I can really do is convey the information from others who do have the experience and knowledge. I submitted a follow-up email about this issue so as soon as I hear back I'll let you know. Everything you said makes perfect sense, I can't understand why it would matter to them. Maybe they were just immediately reacting to my inquiry and wanted to shoot down any thought of running the game on an emulator. I did not go into the sort of detail that has been discussed on here..
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I don't know if the word "emulator" will trigger any red flags with them, though. Maybe "virtual machine" would be a better way to describe a setup like this without alluding to piracy.
I think this sounds about right. If I had to guess they saw the word "emulator" and that triggered a canned response that they rattle off to anyone who uses the word.
Rainwarrior, you know infinitely more about this stuff than I do so if you want to spearhead an inquiry that would be cool. I'm sure you could get to the bottom of it much more quickly than I. If they throw technical jargon back at me I'll have to come back here for more info or look things up piece by piece to try to educate myself. Hopefully they dumb it down a bit and I can make headway; if not I'll look to you guys for some answers and/or better questions
