DiRT’s Steam Banner Briefly Featured 100 Percent More Waifu

Owners of DiRT Showdown got a nice surprise this week, when they opened up Steam only to discover the arcade rally racer had transitioned into ... waifu?

Players on Steam, Reddit and Twitter started noticing some weird behaviour when they opened up Steam recently. It started with DiRT Showdown, a rally racing game from Codemasters. Instead of a standard banner shot of a rally car in their Steam library, they got some waifu.

Someone must be trolling at codemaster or steam from r/dirtgame

What happened to the Dirt Showdown Steam Page??? XD from r/dirtgame

A quick search shows the image came from Nekopara Vol. 0, a visual novel from 2015. Why DiRT Showdown's banner got replaced with an adult game about catgirls is another question entirely, one users had no trouble asking.

Why does Dirt Showdown have this thumbnail?
Is Steam telling me that I'm a weeb trash?

I don't even own Nekopara
Why is this on there

Stem plz pic.twitter.com/ZQD0DWbVdk

— Arby da Foxxo (@FoxyBoiArble) December 2, 2019

This isn't DiRT Showdown pic.twitter.com/efLt7EgkaX

— softwaregore (@softwaregorebot) December 2, 2019

Que clase de dirt Showdown me regalaron? :v pic.twitter.com/6lcZxcjSyp

— Mcder3 (@mcder3) December 2, 2019

Anyway, for some reason, Dirt Showdown is now a waifu game in my Steam client. pic.twitter.com/XArLNGVE16

— Prostate Puncher (@DeathReveals) December 2, 2019

But it wasn't just DiRT Showdown that was supposedly affected. The game has since been pulled from Steam, but users noted that other games were getting swapped around, too.

А может, баг????? pic.twitter.com/mZZNGgELGp

— Kosmonávt Tomaš (@herohascome) December 3, 2019

Image: ResetERA

Image: Twitter (@ginger_hall)

Some users even got this for Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer on their Steam account, although on my account all I got was a blank image.

So this is the Call of Duty MW3 Multiplayer default banner on Steam... pic.twitter.com/OqLjhv6GWC

— Colin (@CoderColin) December 2, 2019

It's worth noting that users can now set custom logos and backgrounds on their Steam library, simply by right-clicking on the banner image in the Steam client. It's not known what exactly caused the bug, and I've contacted Valve for clarification but timezones meant I didn't hear back by the time of publication. The games affected, or at least the ones in my Steam library, appear to be OK (or displaying a blank image like MW3).

Still, it's a good bug for a laugh. There's more than a few people who would probably give DiRT Showdown another look if it had some extra waifu. Maybe an idea for DLC, Codies?

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lawlorz @lawlorz

Dec 3, 2019, 3:58pm
Why does Dirt Showdown have this thumbnail?
Is Steam telling me that I'm a weeb trash?
I don't even own Nekopara
well since you know the name of it based on the image... weeb trash is the least of your concerns.
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- akeashar @akeashar
  
  Dec 3, 2019, 4:28pm
  I’d say Alex is a man of taste and culture for knowing it, but he said that he did an image search to find where it’s from.
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  - Letrico @letrico
    
    Dec 3, 2019, 5:28pm
    The quote is actually from one of the tweet and not from Alex. Since the guy that tweet it knows the game.... he is weeb enough to know what it is.
    
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- Transientmind @transientmind
  
  Dec 4, 2019, 12:21am
  Check out the profile. I didn’t think furries were higher on the subculture hierarchy than weebs, but fox boy apparently thinks otherwise.
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akeashar @akeashar

Dec 3, 2019, 4:21pm
Nekopara vol 0 isn’t adult as such since it’s a prequel.
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- Letrico @letrico
  
  Dec 3, 2019, 5:28pm
  You mean, before they turned into adult?
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