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| Standoff | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Revived Games |
| Publisher(s) | Acid Publishing Group |
| Designer(s) | Anton Makarevskiy |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Standoff (previously titled Active Shooter) is a first person shooter video game developed by Russian video game developer Anton Makarevskiy[1] and publisher Ata Berdyev, working under the names Revived Games and Acid Publishing Group.[2][3] It was first scheduled for release on June 6, 2018 through the Steam distribution platform.[4] After Valve Corporation removed the publisher from the platform, the developer released the game independently.[2]
Gameplay[edit]
The game depicts a school shooting, and allows players to take the role of either the active shooter or a SWAT member responding to the event.[5] Players can choose to attack with guns, grenades or knives, and the number of civilian and police deaths are tallied on screen.[2][6]
Controversy[edit]
Standoff, then known as Active Shooter, attracted controversy after its Steam store page was published in May 2018,[7] with parents of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victims campaigning against the game online.[8][9] An online petition had attracted 100,000 signatures by the time of the game's cancellation.[4]
On May 29, it emerged that Revived Games and Acid Publishing Group were the trading names of Anton Makarevskiy[1] and Ata Berdyev, the latter of which had previously been removed from Steam by Valve Corporation for copyright infringement after the publication of a Rick and Morty parody called Piccled Ricc.[10] The company later announced that Revived Games and Acid Publishing Group would be removed from the Steam platform. A spokesperson told Matthew Gault of Motherboard that Berdyev is 'a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation'.[3] In a subsequent blog post, Acid Software argued that Steam had carried other video games with a focus on violence and murder, giving examples of Hatred, Postal, and Carmageddon.[9]
Following the media reaction to the game, Valve suggested a broader review of its content policies would take place 'soon'.[5][6] Valve issued this updated policy on June 6, 2018, which stated that they would allow any content on Steam as long as it was not illegal, or if the content was 'trolling'.[11] Valve's Doug Lombardi used Active Shooter as an example of such trolling, in that the game was 'designed to do nothing but generate outrage and cause conflict through its existence', and even if another developer, without the history of abusing Steam as they found with Berdyev, had released the same title, they still would have removed it for its trolling nature.[12]
Later in June 2018, PayPal closed the account of Acid Software, citing that the game violated their Acceptable Use Policy.[13]Indiegogo also dropped the title from their service near the same time.[14] The developers' websites for the game were shut down by Bluehost following a Sandy Hook Promise petition.[15]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Creator of 'Active Shooter' Speaks Out: I'm No Psychopath'. PCMAG. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- ^ abc''Active Shooter' game developer vows to continue selling online'. NY Post. 2018-06-13. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
- ^ ab'Valve Has Removed a School Shooting Simulator From Steam, Calling the Developer a 'Troll''. Motherboard. 2018-05-29. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ ab'Active Shooter Game Angers Parkland Parents: 'This Is Gross, This Is Profiteering''. The New York Times. 2018-05-29. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ ab'Active Shooter and its developer have been removed from Steam'. PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ ab'A new video game simulated school shootings. After outcry, it got taken down'. Vox. Archived from the original on 2018-05-31. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^'Steam store school-shooting game 'appalling''. BBC News. 2018-05-23. Archived from the original on 2018-05-27. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^Horton, Alex (2018-05-29). ''Active Shooter' video game let players shoot up a school. Parkland parents were horrified'. Washington Post. ISSN0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ ab''It's a disgrace': Parkland parents condemn video game that simulates school shootings'. miamiherald. Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^'Fan-made Rick and Morty game, Piccled Ricc, removed from Steam'. Polygon. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^Grayson, Nathan (June 6, 2018). 'Valve Says It Will Now Allow 'Everything' On Steam, Unless It's Illegal Or 'Straight Up Trolling''. Kotaku. Archived from the original on 2018-06-06. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
- ^Grubb, Jeff (June 7, 2018). 'Valve's confusing Steam policy is about Flappy Bird, not bigotry'. Venture Beat. Archived from the original on 2018-06-07. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ^Collins, Dave (June 20, 2018). 'PayPal move blocks sales of school shooting video game'. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^Jones, Ali (June 21, 2018). 'Active Shooter has been banned from PayPal'. PCGamesN. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^KALB. 'School shooting video game 'Active Shooter' websites back online'. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
A game where you can roam the halls of a school with an assault rifle has been removed from Steam, but not for the reason you might expect.
Valve has been heavily criticised recently for how it curates Steam, the leading PC digital distribution platform for video games. The company has been accused of double standards after cracking down on anime dating games while games such as Active Shooter exist unchallenged.
Active Shooter arrived in the aftermath of a recent mass shooting in a Texan school. As the Huffington Post pointed out earlier this year, Steam is a gathering point for self-identifying Nazis and would-be school shooters, so quite why Active Shooter was approved in the first place is anyone’s guess.
After a recent investigation of Active Shooter, however, Valve finally took action and removed it, along with every other game its creator had published on Steam. It wasn’t removed because of its content, however.
A Valve representative told Kotaku that Active Shooter’s creator, Ata Berdiyev, is 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 spokesperson said.
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This statement suggests the game wasn’t removed because of its content, but rather because of the actions of the developer previously.