Hatred removed from Steam Greenlight by Valve

Hatred game removed from Steam Greenlight

Hatred, the controversial mass killing ultra-violent video game was removed from Steam Greenlight by Valve. Shortly after making its debut in Steam, the page was removed by Valve, who issued a statement saying “We wanted you guys to know that based on what we see on Greenlight we would not publish Hatred on Steam. As such we’ll be taking it down.”

Hatred’s developer, Destructive Creations, quickly pointed out the availability of games like Postal and Manhunt, which features similar violence to that shown in Hatred. However, they did not want to focus on arguing, as it is within Valve’s right to remove any game they like from their store. Instead they wanted to share some stats from the extremely short amount of time the Greenlight page was available. They released a statement saying,

“We don’t treat this as a failure because yet again this showed us a huge community support we’re totally overwhelmed with. After only a couple of hours Greenlight campaign being live, Hatred gathered 13,148 up votes and ended up on a #7 on Top 100 list.”

The response from fans for the game’s removal has been massive, with Hatred, Steam, and Valve currently trending on Twitter. Many fans and critics tweeted in favour of Hatred, like,

“Come on grow up you have tons of other violent crud games you hypocrites”,

“Hatred received more than 13,000 votes via greenlight in one day. Unless there were concerns over the build, this is a joke.”

The game developers, Destructive Creations closed their message by saying,

“At the end of the day you, gamers will judge if we were able to do a game that’s simply fun to play.”