Destructive Creations, the game development studio behind the controversial “mass murder simulator,” Hatred, has responded to Valve’s recent decision to remove the game from Steam Greenlight, on the same day it went live on the company’s self-publishing service.
As a preface, Valve’s Doug Lombardi stated the following regarding the removal of Hatred from Steam Greenlight:
“Based on what we’ve seen on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam. As such we’ll be taking it down.”
Read Destructive Creations’ response to Hatred‘s takedown after the break.
Hatred Devs Respond to Greenlight Removal
Destructive Creations’ response to the situation came in the form of an official press release, which can be seen below:
“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.
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.”
In order to illustrate the points made in the above quote, Destructive Creations provided the following image:
What are your thoughts on Valve’s decision to remove Hatred from Steam Greenlight? What do you think of Hatred‘s premise in general? Should it ever be released? Why or why not?
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