The War Z Removed from Steam Store After Valve Investigation into Wrongful Community Bans and Censorship

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  • Shawn Zipay
    Managing Communities 24/7
    • Apr 2003
    • 69279

    #1

    The War Z Removed from Steam Store After Valve Investigation into Wrongful Community Bans and Censorship

    It seems as though The War Z can no longer be purchased through Steam, at least for the time being. This move seems to have happened a few minutes ago now and may actually be due to an investigation into moderation concerns on the War Z's Steam Community page.

    Valve's Al Farnsworth posted this in a discussion thread on The War Z Steam Community page.
    Several users have raised concerns about censorship or other posters being banned unfairly. We take these complaints seriously and are investigating the issue.

    If you have specific examples of what you feel was unfair or incorrect moderation on this forum, please post them in this thread (or on my profile) and we'll have a look. There has been a lot of traffic in this forum - a new topic every minute for the last day and a half, with thousands of replies. All that makes moderation a very difficult task.

    If you have concerns or criticisms about the game, you are free to post those in this forum. However, please keep your posts on-topic and about the game. There's no reason to personally insult other posters, the developers, or the moderators. Please keep the discussion rules and guidelines in mind when posting.

    What followed was 24 pages of examples, links, and rational anger over the actions of what moderator, kewk, did to a number of players and those merely commenting in the Community.

    About 15 minutes ago (at the time of this posting), The War Z can no longer be purchased through Steam. It no longer shows up under Steam's "New Releases" on the main page. Accessing The War Z's Steam page directly yields no means to purchase the game, though the landing page still remains.

    This may very well simply be a temporary removal while Valve continues their investigation into the matter.
  • jimykx
    No, I AM your father!
    • Jan 2010
    • 6641

    #2
    what happens to the people who already own the game on steam? I remember something similar happening to the game Breach

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    • Shawn Zipay
      Managing Communities 24/7
      • Apr 2003
      • 69279

      #3
      Originally posted by jimykx
      what happens to the people who already own the game on steam? I remember something similar happening to the game Breach
      It remains on their Steam list and they can still play the game. It's still on my list (no, I didn't purchase it) and I'm assuming still playable (it better be for the "review" I'm working on).

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      • K-16
        ...
        • Sep 2026
        • 2018

        #4
        Looks like karma hit the moderator pretty hard according to forum poster frankbrowest. I wish the guy in the frontlines responsible for maintaining communications between the developers and the customers a Happy Holiday and a safe and fun trip. Multitasking between forum/Twitter posting to calm the angry mobs down, and trying to relax on a trip should be an interesting challenge for him. Professor Farnsworth, you have your work cut out for you and thank you for doing so.

        Update: Looks like Kotaku received comments from their requests from both VALVe and Mr. Titov explaining the reason behind the sale removal.

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        • Nya`
          Member
          • Dec 2003
          • 24

          #5
          These guys really screwed the pooch on so many things, unbelievably unprofessional.

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