SWAT-esque shooter Ready or Not has been briefly pulled from Steam – update – Gaming – News

First-person shooter Ready or Not has disappeared from Steam. The developer initially stated that it did not know why this was happening and then stated that it was a copyright issue related to the new Night Club map. It depicts the aftermath of a mass shooting.

after first place that it didn’t know why this happened, reported developer Void Interactive that it “takes intellectual property concerns very seriously” and therefore “removes the materials in question and all references thereto from the game and from all social media and other publications.” The game should then reappear on Steam. Who the takedown request submitted, the studio does not report. At one point, the creator also said that it was ‘a problem with the backend of Steam’, but that post removed it again.

Gaming Publication NME signs up that the game went offline shortly after the addition of the Night Club map. In that nightclub, a mass shooting has taken place and players take on the role of the SWAT team going inside. Valve has before a game with such content taken offline. That was Active Shooter.

The Night Club map was added to the game on July 12th. On that date, it would have been exactly six years since the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 49 people were killed. In addition, the Night Club map has been compared to the mass shooting at the Bataclan theater in Paris in 2015. 90 people were killed.

Publisher Team17 hasn’t worked together since last year with Void Interactive. That news came with striking timing: just hours after Void revealed a school shootinglevel in the making. However, neither Team17 nor Void have actually confirmed that was the reason for the split.

If the Night Club map and plans for a school shooting mission are indeed too offensive for Valve, it’s striking that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with its No Russianmission is still on Steam, commenters posted on Twitter and Steam. In that mission, the player himself commits a mass shooting at a busy airport.

In Ready or Not, players take on the role of SWAT teams and similar groups. Their missions are typical of this group: confront barricaded suspects, raid commit, stop a shooting, dismantle a bomb and free hostages. Players get more points for arrests than for kills. Tweakers also has a review written for the game. It is still in early access. The game is heavily inspired by the SWAT games, the last of which came out in 2005.

Update, 11:05: the game is back to find on the Steam Store. A user reports in the appropriate Steam subforum: “All appear from the entrance to the corridors leading to the main club [sic] lead have been adjusted. Bullet holes are gone, as are bloodstains.” There are also said to be more surviving civilians.

Update 2, 11:43: the Steam user now reports that he was unable to see bullet holes and bloodstains due to his graphics settings. As for the explicit nature of the images, nothing seems to have changed. However, the name of the nightclub has been changed. Perhaps that is the copyright issue being discussed.

Video from the Night Club for the changes mentioned in the update to this article (Warning: Video contains images of the aftermath of a mass shooting and may be experienced as shocking)

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