"Hatred" removed after one day on steam greenlight for "being too violent".

[Daffytitanic]

I do understand that. The violence can be very controversial and it always happens by something but, who in the flying forget think a game where you kill the guy who is raping a woman and the woman immediately have love with you is ok and never gets pulled and while Hatred gets pulled?

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[Harm94]

You could also gib dead bodies in Half life 1. However, the dev was like some sort of hardcore neo national socialist who tried to make the edgiest game possible. It's all about maintaining a good image and I don't think Valve wants to be associated with that game got a ton of bad press.

[Flatflyer]

You could also gib dead bodies in Half life 1. However, the dev was like some sort of hardcore neo national socialist who tried to make the edgiest game possible. It's all about maintaining a good image and I don't think Valve wants to be associated with that game got a ton of bad press.

yeah this is pretty much it

[espio100]

Thats one edgy game

[Yosher]

it appears that there's a lot of hatred for this game, huh

[gr8dayseth]

it appears that there's a lot of hatred for this game, huh

this was the dev's plan all along *gasp*

[Jairo]

valve has a right to not sell games from their platform the same way that walmart has the right to not sell adidas, for example

walmart may be called hypocritical for still selling nike attire, but that doesn't matter because walmart is allowed to choose what products to carry

[Camel]

You could also gib dead bodies in Half life 1. However, the dev was like some sort of hardcore neo national socialist who tried to make the edgiest game possible. It's all about maintaining a good image and I don't think Valve wants to be associated with that game got a ton of bad press.

yeah i guess i can see that but pulling it for "violent content" seems a little disingenuous

[Electrk.]

the problem is that steam is such a huge portion of the PC gaming market
if a game isn't on steam it will almost certainly tank

yes, valve has the right to remove any game they want for whatever reason they want, but it's a slippery slope
quality control is one thing, but removing a game for being "too violent" is another

greenlight was supposed to be for the people to decide what they wanted on steam
apparently valve made that decision for us though

However, the dev was like some sort of hardcore neo national socialist

this has been debunked

[Flatflyer]

It may be "the peoples choice" but its still valves platform, so they still have the final say in what gets represented on their market
the last sentence of harm's post basically sums it up, they don't want to be associated with this game, they just used "too violent" because I don't really think theres a real professional way to say "this game disgusts us" as a reason.

[Electrk.]

It may be "the peoples choice" but its still valves platform, so they still have the final say in what gets represented on their market
the last sentence of harm's post basically sums it up, they don't want to be associated with this game, they just used "too violent" because I don't really think theres a real professional way to say "this game disgusts us" as a reason.

it may be their platform, but, like I said, it's a slippery slope
once you start going down the road to censorship it's really easy to go too far

[Harm94]

It's not censorship, it's valve protecting their image so that people will keep using their platform.

[McJob]

Two words.

loving.

BULLstuff.

forget off Valve, you useless cunts. Was I going to buy the game? Probably not. Would I like the option to be able to buy the game? Yes

Censorship is ruining this loving society. forget every single Politically Correct starfish who do stuff like this. I can't even loving playing Saint's Row or South Park without it getting loving censored because our Government is afraid of brown town probes (aka slightly more dangerous carrots).

[Harm94]

Two words.

loving.

BULLstuff.

forget off Valve, you useless cunts. Was I going to buy the game? Probably not. Would I like the option to be able to buy the game? Yes

Censorship is ruining this loving society. forget every single Politically Correct starfish who do stuff like this. I can't even loving playing Saint's Row or South Park without it getting loving censored because our Government is afraid of brown town probes (aka slightly more dangerous carrots).

The game got bad PR by the press and if steam sold it the press might go after them, bad press for steam could drive away potential customers, which would lead to fewer sales, which would lead to other companies selling their products on destruction platforms like Gog and Origin which would be bad for Valve. They could care less what the game is about, they are just protecting their interests.

Same reason how Gabe Newell rolls out onto the stage and blabs about how evil Windows 8 is, and how he has the interests of pc gaming at heart, and how evil consoles are, and bashing companies like EA. Valid concerns, but these statements for ulterior motives. Ones that make them money.

If valve truly stood against this game, there wouldn't be blood in half life 2, TF2 would have been a kid friendly Pixar rip off, and you wouldn't have been able to gib enemies in Half Life 1. Nor would they have sold games like Postal and GTA which have all received flak at some point.

[McJob]

I understand that, and it's not Valve I'm angry at. I'm angry at the PC-nitwits who had a hissy-fit that some people want to make things which aren't filled with butterflies and rainbows.

I don't want:

A) Potential games I'd like to be removed from sale
B) Games I want to be censored/modified only for my region, so that I get less content

And as somebody who makes games, how am I supposed to feel knowing that any point, my game can be banned from the biggest storefronts if people winge enough about it, regardless of the quality of the gameplay?