Article 3RXNX AIDS Simulator kicked off Steam as Valve grapples with “trolling” definition

AIDS Simulator kicked off Steam as Valve grapples with “trolling” definition

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Enlarge / Games like Active Shooter will still be banned from Steam for "outright trolling," Valve's Doug Lombardi says.

Yesterday, we noted that Valve's new "almost-anything-goes" policy for games on the Steam Store still includes a bit of subjective wiggle room in its ban on "outright trolling." Since then, a few things have happened that provide some hints as to what Valve might mean by that nebulous term.

First, in a statement to GamesBeat, Valve spokesperson Doug Lombardi clarified that a game like Active Shooter-which was removed from Steam last week after generating days of outraged mainstream headlines-would still be disallowed under the new policy.

"We rejected Active Shooter because it was a troll, designed to do nothing but generate outrage and cause conflict through its existence," Lombardi told the site. "In addition, the developer had been involved in numerous misrepresentations, copyright violations, and customer abuses. There are no second chances for Active Shooter, or its developers. And to be explicit, while the developer behind it was also a troll, we'd reject Active Shooter if it had been submitted by any other developer."

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