WarZ pulled from Steam

Kind of..

No purchase option

Edit:

Yep

Official Statement

Finally, glad it cannot be bought anymore.

I think all the NON VIDEOGAME sites doign articles about this helped ALOT.

Same with that wonderfully written gamespy article/interview! That was true journalism!

First time I ever lost respect for steam was this whole thing with WarZ, but them doing teh right thing and taking away the ability to sell mroe copies of the game was nice. I gained some of that respect back for steam after taking that crap down.

We as PC gamers TRUST steam to tell the truth in the games descriptions. not allow some scam to lie.

No purchase option and removed from front page and top sellers.

However now everyone seems to be praising Valve on the Steam discussion page, failing to remember that Valve allowed this to happen in the first place, it shouldn't have happened.

• We still need answers as to what took so long (2 days) when the problems were apparent after a few hours on the store.
• Why they allowed lies to be on the store page
• Why the edit still had lies
• Why searching "dayz" found War Z but searching "warz" found nothing

Valve are also in the wrong here, they were a complicit to this whole thing and took a 30% cut from this scam.

No purchase option and removed from front page and top sellers.

However now everyone seems to be praising Valve on the Steam discussion page, failing to remember that Valve allowed this to happen in the first place, it shouldn't have happened.

• We still need answers as to what took so long (2 days) when the problems were apparent after a few hours on the store.
• Why they allowed lies to be on the store page
• Why the edit still had lies
• Why searching "dayz" found War Z but searching "warz" found nothing

Valve are also in the wrong here, they were a complicit to this whole thing and took a 30% cut from this scam.

SaltyMeatballs

Forbes already commented on this...

It was casued by the fact that this comany has another game on steam ALREADY (WAR INC). And steam has a process where if a company releases a game that doesnt have alot of complaints that there next game wotn need AS MUCH checking.

They obviously need to work on ther epolicy after this though.

[QUOTE="SaltyMeatballs"]

No purchase option and removed from front page and top sellers.

However now everyone seems to be praising Valve on the Steam discussion page, failing to remember that Valve allowed this to happen in the first place, it shouldn't have happened.

• We still need answers as to what took so long (2 days) when the problems were apparent after a few hours on the store.
• Why they allowed lies to be on the store page
• Why the edit still had lies
• Why searching "dayz" found War Z but searching "warz" found nothing

Valve are also in the wrong here, they were a complicit to this whole thing and took a 30% cut from this scam.

kozzy1234

Forbes already commented on this...

It was casued by the fact that this comany has another game on steam ALREADY (WAR INC). And steam has a process where if a company releases a game that doesnt have alot of complaints that there next game wotn need AS MUCH checking.

They obviously need to work on ther epolicy after this though.

Valve are also in the wrong here, they were a complicit to this whole thing and took a 30% cut from this scam.

SaltyMeatballs

Full refunds available

Valve, you did the right thing.

valve is awesome!

Thank you valve

This entire project keeps getting even more ridiculous the longer I look at it.SKaREO

This entire project keeps getting even more ridiculous the longer I look at it.SKaREO

Pulling the game and offering refunds is the only thing they could've done and I'm glad they did it.

VICTORY!

FLAWLESS VICTORY!

This has been possibly the most entertaining game launch I've seen.

Oh man.:lol: Well good of Valve for pulling this off.

Oh man.:lol: Well good of Valve for pulling this off.

Wanderer5

They had to do the right thing, every hour the game was on Steam it was hugely damaging there reputation. I am happy about a full refund though.

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Oh man.:lol: Well good of Valve for pulling this off.

Toxic-Seahorse

They're handing out refunds left and right. I think they're doing the right thing, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I still don't fully understand what the huge problem was. Yeah they had misleading info of the game on the store page that listed features of the game that weren't in YET. All they had to do was write a simple line saying the game is in beta and not all features are currently present. The guy in that interview was kind of right, but then all he had to do was admit the mistake and apologise. Twisted14

I think it's half the beta state of the game, half their draconian policies (bans, censoring, etc), and half that the game seems like a low effort (read: copied) money grab. Yes, 3 halves!

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="Wanderer5"]

Oh man.:lol: Well good of Valve for pulling this off.

the_bi99man

They're handing out refunds left and right. I think they're doing the right thing, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Valve messed up but I ain't even mad for when they saw their consumers were not satisfied they made sure they do everything so that we could be satisfied once again. And that is what I love most on Valve, because it is a company that cares about the consumers.

at the risk of sounding like a Steam fanboy,

don't people do research before buying a game? Specifically, from third-party sites and stuff? You gotta do more than just look at the product description and go "oh, that looks good".

buyer beware.

As for Steam, theyre still my personal god, but hopefully they no make mistake like this again! No no no!

at the risk of sounding like a Steam fanboy,

don't people do research before buying a game? Specifically, from third-party sites and stuff? You gotta do more than just look at the product description and go "oh, that looks good".

buyer beware.

As for Steam, theyre still my personal god, but hopefully they no make mistake like this again! No no no!

mrbojangles25

best review for the game...ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BUrKdAjN4DM

This is great news. Me and countless others have been basically occupying the The War Z steam forums ever since it's been released.

My main issue is that all three store page updates(the first original listing, and the two updates) were falsely advertising the game.

I'm glad Steam took notice and did something about it.

haha wis3boi that review was hilarious. "I give this a score of NO"Rattlesnake_8

I still don't fully understand what the huge problem was. Yeah they had misleading info of the game on the store page that listed features of the game that weren't in YET. All they had to do was write a simple line saying the game is in beta and not all features are currently present. The guy in that interview was kind of right, but then all he had to do was admit the mistake and apologise. It wouldn't have been so bad if they just said they screwed up with the wording It doesn't seem like fraud to me, it just seems like they messed up. But then I guess there is the high possibility that they intentionally left that info out. More people would buy what they think is a full game rather than a beta. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt so don't think I'm purely defending them, I'm just trying to look at both sides here. But all this, along with stories of many random bans as well as some ridiculous microtransaction rip-offs. This is not a game I would want to buy and it's not a game that should be bought by anyone until it's finished. I also don't believe in paying for a beta in general, this should have just been free.Twisted14

Even after they edited the page some of the information was still wrong.

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[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"] They only did it after the outrage spread to global news sites. Hopefully now everyone that thought Valve were gods and better that everyone else in the gaming industry will shut up. They're a business like every other and will only do "the right thing" when they could potentially lose money.Toxic-Seahorse

They're handing out refunds left and right. I think they're doing the right thing, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

They probably had to actually investigate things before they pulled the game. They couldn't just go off the internet rage of a bunch of nerds on reddit