Reason for the Steam Page being removed.

[Kaminsky]

To the Ready or Not Community,

We’d like to address the rumors surrounding the takedown of Ready or Not and its associated pages on Steam that occurred on Thursday, June 16th.

A takedown request was issued via Steam concerning a suggested trademark infringement in our recent Night Club map that was shared as part of our most recent Steam update. We take IP concerns very seriously, and in a show of good faith, we have decided to remove the subject materials and any reference to them from Ready or Not and from any of our social media or other publications.

Ready or Not will return to the Steam store once we complete the changes. We have also removed the AI update video from our Youtube channel and from our Steam Store page, and anticipate that these will be restored after an editing process is completed

Sincerely,
The VOID Interactive Team

[Turkleton]

Originally posted by Kaminsky:

Originally posted by Sir Dangle:

So, first, you guys say it's a Steam backend issue and you're investigating it.

Now, it's a trademark issue? You guys could have been more upfront about it. Not to mention, you guys didn't exactly do a good job of addressing the external controversy surrounding the June 12th release of the nightclub map.

I'm happy it's going to be resolved, but frankly there were better ways to handle all this. I just hope the game stays up.

I will 100% own up to that. With the earliest information we had and what I could see from the dev console, the fair assumption was that it was a backend issue was made by me and I said something to give the community to latch onto as quick as possible.

I accept that Kaminsky, thank you for clarifying.

[lemon]

Originally posted by Sir Dangle:

Originally posted by lemon:

Confirming that it was trademark issue pretty much confirms that it was nothing about the release of the nightclub map release though... Also, the nightclub map was released months ago, and went through multiple visual updates within those past months. The normal update of an already existing map was probably coincidental. The map is going to get even more updates after this as well.

You're right about the map going through multiple revisions, I completely forgot about that.

I just think it would have been better handled/generated less controversy if the devs were upfront about the trademark issue from the start. I don't know why they mentioned they were investigating a Steam backend problem.

Also, again, while the map itself clearly wasn't the problem, they didn't address the coinciding dates. Cause a lot of publications took issue with that and have been spreading misinformation about the game.

I am not 100% sure, but I think according to what the mods are saying on the discord, they didn't know that it was a trademark issue at the time yet either because it happened so fast. The community was who informed VOID about the store takedown, as evident by the previous posts. It took a while for them to find out what went wrong, which lead them to private the AI video, then making this post afterwards. Again, only VOID knows what truly happened.

As for the publications, its a problem/speculation that the news articles made up based on nothing. No need for anyone to give them publicity. It started with one article, then the rest of the articles piggy backed off of that one article. This post basically debunked everything without acknowledging the misinformation.

[Cryptic]

i dont buy the trademark thing one bit. it was almost certainly people freaking out about the nightclub being in game at all - especially given the date. i would bet money on it.

[lemon]

Originally posted by Corrosion:

i dont buy the trademark thing one bit. it was almost certainly people freaking out about the nightclub being in game at all - especially given the date. i would bet money on it.

The club map has been in the game for months now. It has been receiving updates every patch as well. Are people now just caring about it since a polish version of the club map is releasing with a major update, along with other finished maps as well?

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by lemon:

Originally posted by Corrosion:

i dont buy the trademark thing one bit. it was almost certainly people freaking out about the nightclub being in game at all - especially given the date. i would bet money on it.

The club map has been in the game for months now. It has been receiving updates every patch as well. Are people now just caring about it since a polish version of the club map is releasing with a major update, along with other finished maps as well?

exactly. they suddenly care? yeah right.

[shadowsc133]

Whatever the reason, it sucks to be censored. Doesn`t it?

[Mokinokaro]

Trademark infringement isn't really censorship.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Mokinokaro:

Trademark infringement isn't really censorship.

okay. either way. that's a stretch

[wildgoose]

Originally posted by lemon:

Originally posted by Corrosion:

i dont buy the trademark thing one bit. it was almost certainly people freaking out about the nightclub being in game at all - especially given the date. i would bet money on it.

The club map has been in the game for months now. It has been receiving updates every patch as well. Are people now just caring about it since a polish version of the club map is releasing with a major update, along with other finished maps as well?

Kinda hard to infringe on trademarks when there's not any textures on anything. Sounds like an issue where there's a branded product in the scene and the particular company doesn't want their product in the game.

[Lachlan]

Store page is back!

[TapToo]

Originally posted by x0Z3ro0x:

What content was trademarked and will you release the nightclub map once it's removed?

the name was(pryzm), they changed the name to neon.

[TapToo]

Originally posted by x0Z3ro0x:

Originally posted by TapToo:

the name was(pryzm), they changed the name to neon.

The nightclub changed their name or the devs changed the name?

devs changed the nightclub's name

[Famousbasic13]

My game wont even load properly, Gets stuck on black screen before main menu. Is that because of all this>? We can't play the game until its fixed? And yes i have already verified integ

[Sgt_Bauer_FR]

What was the "subject materials and any reference" please be more specific. Was there only a copyright issue or is there also censorship?

[alxmstr]

RoN is back on Steam as of now.