Here is the first rule for video-game developers that want to keep their games on Steam; never, ever, send a death threat to Gabe Newell. I mean, you’d be really stupid to do such a thing, but that’s exactly what Paranautical Activity’s creator did. And as you’d expect, his game was dropped from Valve’s distribution service in the blink of an eye.
But what exactly happened and what forced Mike Maulbeck to threaten Valve’s boss, Gabe Newell? Well, Paranautical Activity has been available via its Early Access program for quite some time. Yesterday, Mike rolled out the final build of his game, meaning that the game was completed and was no longer an ‘Early Access’ game.
Unfortunately for Mike, Steam did not update immediately the status of his game (it took Steam 2 hours to remove the ‘Early Access’ banner), something that infuriated Mike.
Mike then threatened Gabe Newell, tweeting that he’d kill him. Naturally, Mike has now deleted that tweet but Player Attack has captured that tweet.
Valve decided to step in and end its business relationship with Mike and Code Avarice over that death threat. This means Valve that closed down Mike’s Steam admin accounts and it’s removing the game from purchase on Steam.
Bottom line? Never send a death threat to Newell if you are a video-game developer and want your game to be present on Steam.
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He could’ve very politely and calmly explained the situation to Valve, about what was wrong and they would’ve looked into it. Instead he rudely bursts out, and starts threatening the distributor. Horrible way of doing things.
What rustled his jimmies so much? Gabe never hurt anyone
another man-child idiot making a crap pixilated game? can’t say I’m disappointed by this news
Even though his reaction is not justified in any way, I can see where his anger is coming from. This man’s been royally screwed over by Steam last year. If you wanna know more about this, you can watch Total Biscuit’s video on it; first 10 minutes is about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2n1FVmOIL8
now everyone should ask for refunds. The guy sounds like a spoiled child in those comments he wrote.
This “twitter age of gaming” is getting more and more ridiculous by the day.
What does that even mean? People use Twitter for a lot of reasons and gaming happens to be one of them. I’ve learned a lot of news simply by reading other people’s tweets and re-tweets.
In my home country Russia we call this top kek