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Earth: Year 2066 Removed From Steam, Valve Offering Refunds

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In an interesting turn of events Valve has removed the Early Access game Earth: Year 2066 from Steam and stated refunds are possible.

I am not exactly sure what led to this, but it seems they weren't honest to Valve and everyone else about something:
Chris D, ValveOn Steam, developers make their own decisions about promotion, features, pricing and publication. However, Steam does require honesty from developers in the marketing of their games.

We have removed Earth: Year 2066 from Early Access on Steam. Customers who purchased the game will be able to get a refund on the store page until Monday May 19th.

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This is interesting since Valve are trying as they say to create an open store, but here they are doing some actual curating and protection their users. I can't say kudos to Valve yet, as it's not clear what happened exactly from that quote.

It seems Valve also wiped their entire forum, so it's going to be hard to get more info on this one.

It seems Reddit helped makes this happen with some campaign for a refund, see it here.

An apparent chat with the developer revealed he had fake accounts doing positive reviews & positive forum posts from his own friends and the game was using footage from another game in a trailer apparently.

Not only that, but the developer was editing forum posts changing what people where saying about the game, Steam however notes on a post when it has been edited and gamers also sent in screen-shots of that.

What a saga. Good on Valve for actually removing it, what a con.

You can see a video of the failure here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhbvDhPU7U Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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10 comments

sobkas May 6, 2014
Words can't describe how bad this game was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhbvDhPU7U
loggfreak May 6, 2014
Quoting: sobkasWords can't describe how bad this game was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhbvDhPU7U
is it worse than day one, gary's incident?
Nezchan May 6, 2014
Good on Valve for stepping up on this one. Though I'm a bit amazed the "game" made it as far as it did.
Bomyne May 6, 2014
Valve really does need some community managers. People that can keep an eye on everything, and also to play games (only an hour or two needed) to weed out the trash.

Steam is an awesome place to buy games, and to talk about those games, but when you're buying a game from a publisher that isn't one of the big ones, you run the risk that you paid a lot of money for 5 minute trash.
HadBabits May 6, 2014
I saw this boiling over on the Jimquisition:

View video on youtube.com

Afterwards on the forums the dev was offering (jokingly) the "Jim Sterling edition" for $100 a pop for Jim's fans. Quite the troll, this Muxwell.
Maokei May 6, 2014
Quoting: loggfreak
Quoting: sobkasWords can't describe how bad this game was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhbvDhPU7U
is it worse than day one, gary's incident?

Much worst!
Guest May 6, 2014
Quoting: sobkascough, cough
http://gamingonlinux.com/articles/earth-year-2066-survival-adventure-game-released-in-steams-early-access.3506

I'm so glad I was put off by their description immediately.
toor May 6, 2014
Best game ever!


sponsorised by Muxwell
Nezchan May 7, 2014
Quoting: toorBest game ever!


sponsorised by Muxwell

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