Thousands have signed an online petition trying to block the game’s planned June 6th release. “To be using such a serious situation as an active shooter or a school shooting type situation, for entertainment? For pleasure? For enjoyment? For me, it just goes against everything that our society represents, everything that our community represents, says Lt. People who play something like that… they’re going to be really young and don’t understand what they’re interacting with, they just think it’s cool.”īut, area police say ‘cruel’ and ‘crass’ are better descriptions. “Gamers are just normal people, who are trying to have fun with the game. “I don’t think this is something that a lot of people are going to accept,” adds Vince Bowery. Screen shot 2018 05 28 at 5 14 22 pm Outrage, Disbelief Over Active Shooter Video Game Other gamers at a Carrollton game lounge also weighed in, suspecting that the game called ‘Active Shooter’ looks to profit off of shock value.
“It’s probably not a good time to have a game where you’re running around shooting civilians in a school setting,” says local gamer Evan Kice. That online petition, created Friday by a Seattle-area mom, now has over 200,000 signatures.ĬARROLLTON, Texas ( CBSDFW.COM) – Even as families at the center of the nation’s most recent school shooting continue to bury their dead, the backlash is building over a new video game that allows players to simulate the role of gunman in an active school shooting. Sign this petition to DEMAND the game isn't launched, " Jaclyn Corin, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, tweeted Tuesday. Everyone that cares about school & public safety should be OUTRAGED. Sign this petition to DEMAND the game isn’t launched: - Jaclyn Corin May 29, 2018 Valve Corporation of Bellevue is launching a video game on June 6th that’s a school shooting simulator. News of the game's upcoming release had drawn fierce criticism in recent days from classmates and parents of students slain in Parkland, who demanded Valve remove the game from its platforms. Revived Games and Acid did not respond Wednesday to requests for comment. Valve will be holding broader conversations soon about Steam's content policies, Lombardi said. "We are not going to do business with people who act like this towards our customers or Valve," he added. Valve discovered the man was the developer behind "Active Shooter" when they began investigating amid controversy surrounding the upcoming game, Lombardi said. Lombardi described the developer as "a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation." In the statement, Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi said the game's developer and publisher is a man who had been banned from Steam last fall when he was operating under a different name. Valve sent a statement to CNN on Wednesday saying they removed Revived Games and Acid from its Steam platform due to past misbehavior. Marketing materials for the game, developed by Revived Games and published by a Russian company called Acid, promised to let players choose between portraying a SWAT team member responding to a shooting or portraying an actual shooter whose objective was to "hunt and destroy." News of the game's release had sparked widespread outrage, including among students and parents at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died in a shooting in February.
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The PC game, "Active Shooter," was set to be released June 6 on Steam, an online gaming store and platform owned by Valve Corp., a video game developer. (CNN) - A much-criticized video game that would let players shoot up a school has been pulled from a digital storefront just days before its release.
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