Valve faces backlash with "Active Shooter" video game - Valve content control at work

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Part two of Valve's content control hitting the news.

http://abc7ny.com/entertainment/active-shooter-video-game-draws-backlash-from-parents/3524668/

A video game allowing players to play as an "active shooter" is drawing backlash from parents.

"It turns my stomach it makes me sick to watch it," said parent Stephanie Robinett.

Around noon on Friday, Stephanie Robinett found out about the video game titled "Active Shooter." The mother of three said she couldn't believe a game like this exists, reports KCPQ.

"How could anyone think this is ok?" she said.

Active Shooter is set to be available for download on Steam, a digital distribution platform for video games. Steam is developed by the Bellevue, Wash.- based company Valve.

Valve itself did not create the game, but is providing the platform for people to access it.

"It's not ok to do it in a school and any reasonable company should know that," Robinett said.

Robinett says she cant just sit by and do nothing. In about six hours, Robinett got organized, creating a petition on Change.org.

The petition already has more than a thousand signatures. She says she has only one goal.

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

Robinett said in the world we live in today, this game just crosses the line.
 
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The developer is smart as fuck; Google sees "active shooter" as an important news keyword and puts the game on the first page when you search for "Steam" on Google.

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I predict that this will go as well as the attempt to remove Hatred.
 
Everyone knows Gabe Newell's been in a diabetic coma since Portal 2 came out. They had to use his evil twin to run the company, and this is the result.
 
I remember a news report from the 1990s that White Supremacist computer games were cropping up and something had to be done to stop them.

One of them was a concentration camp simulator if I remember correctly.
 
Tbh I don't know what the hell they were expecting. The only semi-legit reason I see for launching this is to attention whore.
 
All these children running about trying to make their own edgy shooter games keep forgetting about the OG.
 
Secret Asshole said:
I remember a news report from the 1990s that White Supremacist computer games were cropping up and something had to be done to stop them.

One of them was a concentration camp simulator if I remember correctly.
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KZ Manager Millennium? I heard about that on a like a top 10 disturbing game video on Youtube.
 
Man. Theyre going to make a shitton of cash from the exposure and then the game is going to disappear from the servers and they'll be gone without a trace.

BrunoMattei said:
Uhm, have they completely forgotten about Hatred?
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Or the MW2 level where you shoot up an entire airport. That game is like $2 now at most used places that don't ID for games.
 
i'm just disappointed that the "shooter" isn't limited to what's available believably. may as well just make the bad guy some generic terrorist rather than some loser with a semi auto or a pump shotgun or something, a pistol of some kind, and pure virgin rage.
 
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