Why did this game get removed?

[level94836]

title says all

[boru]

It's 2019 and saying dung is forbidden now.

[kaisha_KTN]

I don't know why, but many games have been banned.

Steam just banned/deleted hundreds of game
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1744511953043009581/

3 of my games had just been banned from the Steam Store. My account has also been suspended without any kind of communication from Valve.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/e1q9ho/3_of_my_games_had_just_been_banned_from_the_steam/

[Aramax]

I think this game was part of a bundle that had some less desirable content... like poorly coded games, rushed games and games that were meant as a joke. I guess Steam wants to avoid another "notgta" incident.

[level94836]

Originally posted by Aramax:

I think this game was part of a bundle that had some less desirable content... like poorly coded games, rushed games and games that were meant as a joke. I guess Steam wants to avoid another "notgta" incident.

That's still really unfair. I don't see what harm that's done to steam, nor do i know what harm this has done to steam. If steam were transparent and explained themselves, i'd be okay. However them just being quiet like this is really just unacceptable.

[Fnord]

It looks like it was down to the publisher being naughty a few times too many. People have been doing a bit more digging, and found out that pretty much all the bannings that happened 3 days ago were in some way shape or form connected to Dagestan Technologies, or one of its sockpupets. A few games, like OutDrive have been restored since the big ban wave

[level94836]

Originally posted by Fnord:

It looks like it was down to the publisher being naughty a few times too many. People have been doing a bit more digging, and found out that pretty much all the bannings that happened 3 days ago were in some way shape or form connected to Dagestan Technologies, or one of its sockpupets. A few games, like OutDrive have been restored since the big ban wave

Well, at least some games are coming back. It's a shame too, Dagestan was starting to become good with its games.

[Fnord]

Originally posted by level94836:

Originally posted by Fnord:

It looks like it was down to the publisher being naughty a few times too many. People have been doing a bit more digging, and found out that pretty much all the bannings that happened 3 days ago were in some way shape or form connected to Dagestan Technologies, or one of its sockpupets. A few games, like OutDrive have been restored since the big ban wave

Well, at least some games are coming back. It's a shame too, Dagestan was starting to become good with its games.

Some of the games they published were fine, but the company itself seemed really shady.

At one point I criticized one of their games on a forum for just being a copy/paste of another game, and suddenly I started getting identical comments in Cyrillic script that google translate could not translate, from quite a few different accounts. No idea if they were trying to threaten me, or make things annoying enough for me so that I won't dare to say a bad word about them in the future, but it was mildly annoying.

I do hope that Valve restores all the decent developers who were just getting their games published through Dagestan or one of their sockpupets, like Siberian

[Garce]

What Fnord said. This is a fine game that deserves to be on Steam. Necro bump for the truth.

[level94836]

Originally posted by Garce:

What Fnord said. This is a fine game that deserves to be on Steam. Necro bump for the truth.

+1

[tstki]

Originally posted by Garce:

What Fnord said. This is a fine game that deserves to be on Steam. Necro bump for the truth.

Supposedly the publisher is to blame.
The dev never came back to get it unbanned.

[Captain Electric]

I still tell friends about this game and miss it dearly, it was a good game.

I also just discovered you can still buy it on the Nintendo Switch. But I don't have a Nintendo Switch. And besides, I paid for it on Steam