Valve Takes Out School Shooting Game For Steam

Photo: Active Shooter

Valve has deleted the controversial first-person school shooting game called Active Shooter and its developer from the Stream marketplace.

The company removed Active Shooter from Steam, and any game published by Revived Games and publisher Acid but it's not just because of the controversial game.

"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,'" a rep of Valve told Kotaku. He called the developer a "troll" with "a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation."

"We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve," the rep explained.

On Active Shooter, the rep also said that "the broader conversation about Steam's content policies is one that we'll be addressing soon."

According to the description of Active Shooter (not deleted), it's a "dynamic SWAT simulator in which dynamic roles are offered to players." The game lets you play as a shooter, a civilian, or a SWAT team member. Its trailer showed a shooter killing his way through school halls.

"We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve," the rep said. As for Active Shooter's content, the rep promised that "the broader conversation about Steam's content policies is one that we'll be addressing soon."

That's good to know that Steam doesn't tolerate offensive games like that. This isn't helping the United States' problem of school shootings.

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