Steam, I would pass on this game... (game news)

Hello everyone,

Since this games storefront has been live, I have been stormed with accusations and heavy critics from people across the globe. While I see everyone's points of view and where are they coming from - I wanted to clarify a few things:

First of all, this game does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft of a mass shooting. As I said in the description of the game:

Active Shooter is essentially a dynamic SWAT simulator in which dynamic roles are offered to players.

Originally when this game started its course of the development, I have planned on having SWAT only based game-play. Then I thought about adding more gameplay to it by adding additional roles: of the shooter and the civilian. While I can see people's anger and why this might be a bad idea for the game, I still feel like this topic should be left alone. As I mentioned on steam discussion forums, there are games like Hatred, Postal, Carmageddon and etc., which are even worst compared to "Active Shooter" and literally focuses on mass shootings/killings of people.

I have wrote to Valve regarding this game and waiting for the reply. After receiving such high amount of critics and hate, I will more likely remove the shooters role in this game by the release, unless if it can be kept as it is right now.

Thanks a lot for taking your time to read and leave your responses!!!
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https://steamcommunity.com/games/866890/announcements/detail/1645382750018785881
 
At the end of the day, anyone who could/would be influenced by a game to go and kill people is completely capable of doing something like that anyway. Normal folk don't feel the compulsion to go out and destroy people after watching a violent movie or playing a game. Society loves, no make that needs to have something to blame. I recently watched a documentary on the 'video nasties' from the 80s and there was once a front page headline that a dog who attacked someone had watched one of the banned movies that day, I think the headline was something like 'Dog goes on rampage after watching video nasty'. So ridiculous.
 
The biggest problem here is not that it will drive a single person to carry out a spree shooting (it won't) but that the Second Amendment crowd will use it as yet another thing to add to the list of "Things that cause spree shooting that aren't guns. No sir, definitely the viseo games, not the guns. Now nice NRA, can I have my money". OK, some of that will be be implied, but the first part will be out loud.
 
Don't really think a game is going to sway anyone to become something they're not already. I mean they already have a solution available but clearly not enough people have died yet to implement it so it's all the devs fault really.

Good advertising for the company though.
 
It's just a poorly asset filled game where you can play both the shooter or the police. There are SWAT games. One of the biggest games right now is Rainbow Six Siege, then you have the whole GTA game series, even Counter Strike and a dozen more.

Nothing to be upset over, move along.
 
Every single Fallout game, you could slave people, kill them, use their bodies to make robotic parts, take their brains, you could put explosive collars around slaves and blow them up, you could nuke entire towns like Megaton.

Command & Conquer games had missions where you would kill civilians or capture them to turn resources for your robotic army.

Call of Duty no Russians, Battlefield 1 has chemical warfare.... Pretty sure that Pillars of Eternity has some evil stuff in it too. Witcher games... the list is endless.

I don't care about pixels in a game, if them pixels start looking like real people, then we might have a talk.
 
What...really?

So games like GTA are fine and go around mass killing cops but this not ok :D
Payday 2? You walk into a bank and can shoot every person inside or take them hostage...then shoot them lol.
 
games make people violent and makes them into killers
in that case i should be a right nut job
atari....kill
master system / nes.....kill
mega drive/snes.....kill
PC...i remember doom,wolfenstein,manhunt,

they use games because they are a easy target if anyone does that then they are not right in the head and a little push is all thats needed
 
The point here isn't that this game is going to turn anyone into a school shooter....it's that in the midst of a school shooting epidemic, someone is trying to profit from turning the killing of schoolchildren into entertainment.

I don't know if it's better or worse that it's a lame ass asset flip.
 
mid_gen said:
The point here isn't that this game is going to turn anyone into a school shooter....it's that in the midst of a school shooting epidemic, someone is trying to profit from turning the killing of schoolchildren into entertainment.

I don't know if it's better or worse that it's a lame ass asset flip.
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Is it any more wrong than western democracies profiting off of the continued conflict in the Middle-east?

/boom
 
mid_gen said:
The point here isn't that this game is going to turn anyone into a school shooter....it's that in the midst of a school shooting epidemic, someone is trying to profit from turning the killing of schoolchildren into entertainment.

I don't know if it's better or worse that it's a lame ass asset flip.
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Which is just the same as any war game?
 
I’d like to play it, I like the concept.

We have horrifically violent games everywhere, I love them. I have no interest in hurting an actual person, at all. And the violent games I’ve played over the years won’t change that.
 
Op, are you serious?

I am a grown adult, give me the choice to decide what is right or wrong.

Hollywood releases guff all the time and nobody complains.

Six hours later, Robinett got organized and created a petition on change.org.
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Right there, I lost interest in anything the stupid women had to say.

She said she only has one goal.

"I want them to pull the game. Simple, just pull it," said Robinett.

Robinett said with what’s going on in the world today, the game just crosses the line.
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ROFL.

She cannot be much of a gamer.
 
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