Valve haalt Hatred van Steam Greenlight
Valve heeft ingegrepen op Steam. De controversiële game Hatred, die bezig was aan een Steam Greenlight-campagne en daarbij al heel wat stemmen wist te halen, is immers van de service gehaald. Valve legt uit dat men de game bekeken heeft en dat men op basis van die informatie de game nooit op Steam zou laten uitkomen. Bijgevolg heeft het de game dus weggehaald.
Ook de makers hebben ondertussen gereageerd met een open brief. Daarin laat men weten dat games als Manhunt en Postal nog wel steeds beschikbaar zijn, maar dat men de beslissing van Valve zal respecteren. De game zal echter nog steeds uitkomen, belooft men, en men zal de inhoud niet aanpassen omwille van Valves houding. Wie dus interesse heeft in Hatred kan uitkijken naar het tweede kwartaal van 2015.
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Dear Hatred Fans, As you know today we’ve launched our Steam Greenlight campaign for Hatred. Unfortunately after couple of hours Steam shut it down giving the below as reasons behind their decision: “We wanted you guys to know that based on what we see on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam. As such we’ll be taking it down.” Even though games like Manhunt or Postal are still available on Steam we of course fully respect Valve’s decision, as they have the right to do so. In the same time we want to assure you that this won’t in any way impact the game's development, game’s vision or gameplay features we’re aiming for. The game is still to be released in Q2 2015 as planned. Moreover we don’t treat this as a failure because yet again this showed us a huge community support we’re totally overwhelmed with. After only a couple of hours Greenlight campaign being live, Hatred gathered 13,148 up votes and ended up on a #7 on Top 100 list. This is the best proof for us that there are diehard Hatred fans out there, waiting for this game to be released. And that we need to keep going to deliver them a game that offers exciting and challenging gameplay. The whole situation only pushes us forward to go against any adversity and not to give up. It also makes us want to provide our fans Hatred pre-orders sooner, as many of you have asked for them. At the end of the day you, gamers will judge if we were able to do a game that’s simply fun to play. |
