Now that’s the spirit Valve. Earlier this week, Valve decided to pull the plug and ban Destructive Studios’ upcoming top-down violent title, Hatred, from Steam. Thankfully, the company reconsidered its decision and decided to re-enable the game’s Steam Greenlight page.
In short, Hatred is back on Steam Greenlight, and it’s up to the gamers themselves to decide whether this game should be sold via Steam or not.
Now before declaring us crazy Nazis or anything like that, let us say that Valve’s decision was as hypocritical as it could get. You see, we don’t really care about the concept or the content of that game. After all, it’s just that; a game. Censoring a violent game because a company believes it’s not ‘consumer-friendly’ or in order to protect a specific fan-base is simply ridiculous. Especially when other games – like Postal or Manhunt – are being sold without issues on Steam.
The purpose of Steam Greenlight, after all, was to give players the power and endorse games they’d love to play, no matter whether some people are offended by it. So Valve should let the players decide the game’s fate. Plain and simple.
Hatred is currently planned for a Q2 2015 release.
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hahaha yeah!
The game is going to break piracy and/or sales records now. Because of the controversy around it, everyone will want to play it. It is called The Streisand effect.
This trailer had ~1.5 million views even before this story. The idea of the game itself is already something that’s going to break piracy and/or sales records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3PhvCf_Jg
I wonder what caused Valve to change their mind so quickly. Hopefully it stays up this time.
Gabe Newell. There’s an email on another site from him stating he looked into what it was about because he wasn’t up to speed. Once he had, he said it was the wrong decision and reinstated the game.
Valve remember one of my ex-girlfriends.
First they want, then they don’t want anymore, then they want again, and is leaving me confused and kind of hating it.
Now we can have steam achievements, trading cards & workshop support!
i posted on valve’s facebook page about this , i think it worked. The backlash was bigger then the complaints about the game being on steam
Well, that was an exciting 24 hours.
Yesterday I woke up to the news of a game banned from Greenlight. I spent much of the day following people’s reactions to it and participated in some discussions/arguments.
Today I woke up to the news that it is back up on Greenlight. Now I wait for it to come out.
To think many people where reacting to this game emotionally (rather than logically or objectively) and defending valve’s decision to the death. As far as I’m concerned there was hypocrisy all around. These same people defended games like the Postal series saying the mass murdering was more OK there because it was “tongue in cheek”.
Also I said it should be up to the gamers to decide if the game is successful or not… or in other words the “Free Market” and I was told Valve is supporting the free market by not allowing it to be sold because they deemed it unpublishable and predicting market forces… and accused me of saying Valve should just take the hit in publicity by releasing it.
If I where one of the people defending the removal of this game I’d feel a tad sheepish right now. 🙂
yes, now we are talking. more than 13k people wants the game on steam 93% of all votes are yes
And personally I agree with this. Aside from Manhunt and Postal, there are Fallout, Mortal Kombat, Doom, Darkness, Hotline Miami and some other “violent” titles. None of them were banned.
Liked and followed.
Buying day one just to spite anyone who thinks they have a right to dictate what I can play or can’t play. FU if you think you own me.
oh. i love the irony on this one.
https://scontent-b-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/10830470_387264774774186_2167759126562716439_o.jpg
Looks like this game’s getting a lot of free publicity, regardless of how good the actual game is going to be. I’d say it’s rather smart on the developer’s part in trying to cash in on this so-called controversy.
Hatred is now currently ranked no.1 on Greenlight.
And GOG wishlist most voted this week xD
Gabe Newell sent them a message apologising for this happening. He told them he wasn’t aware of what was going on and checked it out internally. Once he was up to speed he said it wasn’t the correct decision and reinstated the game. Praise be.
Yes that is exactly what happened! ^_^
OH MY GOD HOW I LOVE BEING RIGHT! free publicity everyone.
also, this game is gonna suck.
Depends if you like isometric shooters with fully destructible environments or not.
All Russian/Brazillian (or similar) games on Steam now have regional activation locks
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=953686
This game is so day 1 purchase for me, how about you, you buying ?
Take that, SJW scumbags!
Also, I dread the day GabeN dies, Steam will turn to s**t
Gabe should have a protege. I’m also interested what happened to the person that chose to remove Hatred in Steam.
Thank you Gabe! Hatred wasn’t going to be famous but it got infamous because of the attention it got from hypocritical people. People put it too much in the spotlight because of the uber violence which a lot of video games already have. Now because of a crap decision of someone in steam greenlight to remove the game without so much as addressing the likes it got from the users and then Gabe N. intervening to put it back in Steam just made Hatred to have more exposure. Man the Hatred devs must be happy. Free marketing because of people putting this game too much in the spotlight. I’ll probably play this when it comes.