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

[TapToo]

Originally posted by 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?

only copyright issue.

[Utplayer01]

I love this map... but in my opinion there are to much dead people... seems like iam in a horror show... remove the dead bodys from the dancefloor and steam will be ok :-)... the next censor is the Golden Dildo

[DerpyVenom]

saw on another thread that the name Prysm in the night club map is an actual nightclub in Chicago US. And Prizm with a Z from the UK

[ArmeT]

Next time Devs just do a quick google search cuz this can be avoided if U guys know that Nightclub name have been taken lol

[Moisture]

I wouldn't surprise me pretty much any nightclub name you could think of is taken 3 times over

[Rex Smashington]

Originally posted by Corrosion:

Originally posted by lemon:

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.

This is the first time the club is in with textures. If it's art that violated the trademark law with a logo or something, this is the first time anyone has seen the textured club. You're really stretching to make this more controversial than it is.

[Baron]

♥♥♥♥ move that they didn't even ask for the names removal and straight up did a take down request. what a bunch of jerks.

[Rocky McRockerson]

Originally posted by Baron:

♥♥♥♥ move that they didn't even ask for the names removal and straight up did a take down request. what a bunch of jerks.

Hard to do that nowadays

[Utplayer01]

RON is back on steam...

[Baron]

Originally posted by Rocky McRockerson:

Originally posted by Baron:

♥♥♥♥ move that they didn't even ask for the names removal and straight up did a take down request. what a bunch of jerks.

Hard to do that nowadays

They have emails set up you know?

[PRAET0R1AN™]

Originally posted by Baron:

Originally posted by Rocky McRockerson:

Hard to do that nowadays

They have emails set up you know?

Yeah it wasn't really a cool thing for them to issue a takedown notice for it..

My first port of call personally would be to drop an email with the gist of the email basically being

"Hey, so um, we've noticed certain elements of your product contains xxxxxxx, we identify this as part of our branding and thus would like to bring this to your attention for removal, otherwise we may have to seek counsel and take further action"

[Rocky McRockerson]

Easy to say, but often people don't listen to those kind of emails. A takedown notice to get it removed is probably the simplest way, it was only down for 12 hours after all.

[PURIFICATEUR]

Anal staircase was a cool name

[アーティフィシャルKaban]

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 really don't envy your position Kavinsky lol. I probably would have done the same thing IMO.
I appreciate the explanation though!

Still, really wished some players stop throwing wild speculations but that is internet for ya and 'journalists' don't really care about the problem. They are click driven after all.

Originally posted by Utplayer01:

I love this map... but in my opinion there are to much dead people... seems like iam in a horror show... remove the dead bodys from the dancefloor and steam will be ok :-)... the next censor is the Golden Dildo

I'd argue the fact it looks like a horror game make it all better. Morbidity aside, I don't mind these hyper-realism take on police situation. If allowing the devs to explore their visions to its fullest potential will provide the players a more richer and engaging experiences, then they have my full support!

As much as people shout for realism, I'd argue it shouldn't be the main point when it comes to crafting RON. The reason why I love SWAT 4 is because I was engrossed by the experienced of being in a shoe of a SWAT officer in an active situation. Looking back, the game was never that big on realism and it's OKAY. Whether by design, due to old technology, or lack of times, it still achieved its goal of providing GREAT entertainment value.
It was entertaining for me and most importantly, it made me fall in love with the FPS tactical genre.

My point is RON is still a game at the end of the day. Entertainment values/player's experiences comes first, messages second and graphic should be last.

OMG excuse this wall of text! Just wanna share my 2 cents.

[Satan]

Originally posted by Sir Dangle:

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.

There's no controversy, the map has been in game long before that date. It's just dumb people looking for drama, and Void seems to have ignored it, which is wise.