'Active Shooter' Video Game That Allows Player To Be School Shooter Will Be Removed From Valve Afte

[riversedge]

I can't believe the company put this game out in the first place but anything for for some money I suppose.
Now they are being praised for removing the game finally!! (sounds like ABC putting on the remake of Roseanne when they knew the bigot she was, and now getting praise for promptly cancelling the second season)!!!!


‘Active Shooter’ Video Game That Allows Player To Be School Shooter Will Be Removed From Valve After Being Denounced
by Anita Busch

http://deadline.com/2018/05/active-shooter-video-game-denounced-mass-shooting-families-1202399159/


May 29, 2018 3:51pm

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Active Shooter Video Game

Parkland

Acid Publishing

UPDATED, 3:51 PM: Facing harsh criticism from families of mass shooting victims as well as an online petition and negative press reports, Valve, Inc. has decided to pull the Active Shooter video game from its online gaming store, Steam. It has also removed content from publisher ACID and its game developer. A spokesperson for the Valve, Inc, just issued this statement to Deadline:

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We have removed the developer Revived Games and publisher ACID from Steam.

This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall when he was operating as “[bc]Interactive” and “Elusive Team”. Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation. His subsequent return under new business names was a fact that came to light as we investigated the controversy around his upcoming title. We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve.

The broader conversation about Steam’s content policies is one that we’ll be addressing soon.

“We applaud Valve for acting so quickly to remove this game and to realize how wrong and irresponsible it was,” said Stacie Armentrout, a parent whose family survived the Las Vegas mass shooting on October 1, 2017 where 58 people were shot and killed and hundreds others injured both physically and mentally.

PREVIOUSLY, 11:26 AM: Parents of those murdered and those who survived from multiple mass shootings are denouncing a video game published by Valve, Inc. called Active Shooter where a player can choose to play as a school shooter so they can racked up kill numbers. Published by Acid Publishing out of Moscow and ready for debut on June 6 on Windows PC through Valve Corp.’s online gaming store Steam, the game allows the player to kill cops and civilians (students, teachers) as they walk through a school with an assault rifle.

Parkland parents Ryan Petty, the father of Alaina Petty who was only 14 when she and 16 others were slaughtered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and her murdered classmate’s father Andrew Pollack (his 18-year-old daughter, Meadow Pollack, was shot and killed) have taken to social media about the video game. Both have condemned the game as it “crosses a line” and also that it’s “a disgrace.” But they are not alone as other families across the country have also weighed in.

The video game carries a disclaimer: “Please do not take any of this seriously. This is only meant to be the simulation and nothing else. If you feel like hurting someone or people around you, please seek help from local psychiatrists or dial 911 (or applicable). Thank you.”

“This is another definition of ‘blood money.’ The release of this game is simply cruel-intentioned,” Christopher Hansen told Deadline. Hansen survived the mass shooting in the Pulse Club in Orlando before helping others who were injured that day; 49 were murdered. “As we move forward in our techno ways through virtual reality, new ways of gaming through role playing, live-action, or in the comfort of your own home with the ability to train yourself as being an active shooter … this can’t be the new age of America. Our reality has become someone else’s virtual playground on the broken hearts and homes of others as real-life active, shooter gaming scenarios. Schools, churches, movie theaters, and even night clubs have all been victimized by such tragedy and now to allow young minds to be filled with the corruption of how to carry out an active shooter situation is inhumane.”

The game also allows the player the option to become a SWAT member. “Yes, there is an option to be the ‘Good Guy’ but honestly that should be the only option in this ‘game’ if it is produced,” said Stacie Armentrout, a parent whose family all survived the Las Vegas mass shooting on October 1, 2017. Fifty-eight people were murdered and hundreds injured that day....................................


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[manor321]

1. FYI

Just an FYI, any developer who wants to pay the $100 fee can upload their game to be sold on Valve's Steam website. I'm not excusing Valve of course but they have the same issue as Apple and Google do regarding the management of their store fronts.

[Blue_Adept]

2. This

A lot of folks don't understand how these stores often work as it's almost like a forum or social media to a degree, the idea being to let new ideas find their market. Steam's been refining things recently, for the worse when it comes to adult games but that just gets new services started, and games like this from known trolls means they need to refine and fix things more.

[gratuitous]

5. Maybe they could hire someone to serve as gatekeeper?

I know, it's so hard to create a position and pay someone money that would otherwise just go into the hosts' pockets, but this episode should persuade some of these self-styled geniuses to be more responsible corporate citizens. That is, if that's part of their business plan at all.

[Blue_Adept]

7. There'll always be shit that gets through

The important part is how you deal with it after the fact and what you can tweak. But as you can ask anyone who runs a forum or a shop like this, it's a constant battle.

[gratuitous]

11. Yes, some stuff will get through

But a first person active shooter game taking place in a school in a country where we average a school shooting every week? That takes a special brand of cluelessness, the kind cultivated in the dark of a poorly lit and poorly ventilated basement.

[Locrian]

3. smdh

Active Shooter where a player can choose to play as a school shooter so they can racked up kill numbers. Published by Acid Publishing out of Moscow

[Blue_Adept]

4. That's what you get from a known troll like that.

It's not their first rodeo.

[riversedge]

6. I am not familiar with games. Do a few simple ones with

young 6 year nephew. He mostly beats me and has a good laugh.

[Blue_Adept]

8. Only a handful for me

Mostly just the LEGO games because they're fun and not online multiplayer pieces. All I keep on my phone is solitaire to play when I don't feel like reading when waiting. My big gaming days are long behind me.

[catsudon]

9. well

the game is in poor test and crossed the line (with the killing of kids) , but i do not believe games create school shooters anymore than porn causes more rape.

remember a mission in call of duty that have you kill as many civilians in an airport? no one are blaming that game for giving ideas to terrorists for shooting up an airport.

[Blue_Tires]

10. k+r

[TheBlackAdder]

12. They should leave that up there to identify future school shooters, based on the game's downloads.