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Active Shooter (and "dev's" entire catalogue) gone from Steam
- Thread starter lashman
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I mean, that's good. They should be more on top of this, so people don't have to inform them what's on their store.
Their storefront, their rules. Though I imagine this is due to the controversy and not any moral imperative.
Still hoping for good news with that whole VN debacle.
Still hoping for good news with that whole VN debacle.
And nothing of value was lost. Just heard about this "game" on NBC Nightly News, the story written before confirmation on whether Valve would actually do anything. Clearly not the sort of attention the company wanted for Steam, but still odd that White Power: Pure Voltage was something they saw and Valve thought, "Okay, put this here".
They knew it would garner a ton of negative attention which would inevitably lead to more sales than they've ever seen before. Much like what happened with Hatred.
Yep. All you had to do was go on the Steam forums for this and see tons of posts saying "I'm buying this just to trigger the snowflakes! LOL!"
How did d nbc know about this game before we did? It's all highly suspect but if it was real I'm glad it's gone.
Glad to see they pulled everything. Capitalizing on a tragedy is disgusting.
This showed up on Reset about a week ago with this thread. Its just been hitting the news over the past couple of days.
Their whole catalog is based on trying to cash in on popular cultural trends (Tide Pod Challenge, Stranger Things, etc.) with quickly-made garbage. This is just their latest attempt at exploitation.
There's pretty much no way this is the reason it was taken down.
Notoriety. I'm sure that the developers were well aware that games like White Power and Tyde Pod Challenge would get pulled off of Steam eventually. But made them anyway to bank on the controversy that could come out of them. Even if it is a limited window, they could still get get a few sales from people who want these games just so they cal say that they own them, before they were pulled from Steam.
Fucking great.
I've been noticing, on my side, Valve putting more and more policy in place to make sure vaporware and hateware does not get through.
Nothing of value was lost and this is well within Valve's right as a private corporation operating a private digital store to remove it.
When Valve sever their business relationship with a dev they will generally remove all their games from sale, without exception.
(Because if they still sold any of them they would also still have a business relationship with the dev ;))
I don't, that was terrible.
There's still a fairly big proliferator of that sort of garbage who Valve seemingly refuses to action.
I'm honestly surprised that shit was pulled off the moment an actual Valve employee logged in and saw "recently added".
you "get" white power depending on the context?
Valve is a private company - they can adjust ToS or remove stuff that hurts their company at their discretion
Does it matter? Valve wanted to cut ties completely, not let them hang around and have more rope.
I totally glossed over that. Why did I even bother responding.
This story was getting a lot of play. They were even talking about it on a sports talk radio station I listen too. As good as this is getting pulled, I could see this popping up elsewhere with all the publicity.