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Developer Rejects Player Requesting Steam Key For Supporting LGBT Rights

Operation Caucasus developer Dream Games has given out tons of early access keys for their shooter. But when this player asked for one, sporting a colorful avatar signaling support for LGBT rights, the developer responded with a simple message: “We’re not support lgbt. Please, just f**k you.”

This exchange was posted as part of a negative review for Operation Caucasus on Steam yesterday. (You need to own the game to post a review, but since the game hasn’t officially launched, the player nabbed a key from a friend who managed to get one from the developer, through a Facebook giveaway. That friend didn’t have a rainbow-themed avatar, obviously.)

“If you also think that the developer[’s] homophobia must be clear to all,” wrote ||B.r.|| niveadc, “please check this review as helpful, to stay on top. thanks.”
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Instead of walking their comment back, knowing something like this could easily spread much further than a comment thread, they doubled down.

“We’ll never support ‘lgbt,” said a developer writing under and official Dream Games account. “We’re not a toy. This is our freewill.”

“We don’t need their and your money if you’re/they’re from ‘lgbt,’” the developer continued. “You don’t liked our this decide? You can flag this game. This is your freewill. And this decide [sic], our freewill.”
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The good thing is bad press isn't an issue since there isn't a lot of competition on Steam

Good on them for sticking to their beliefs and fighting for the cause

(lol fucking idiots)
 
This is just going to increase sales for the game - I would have never heard of this shit if it wasn't reported on Kotaku. Look at the comments for the review, we're going to get a horde of right wingers buying this shit to support it.

Other Steam reviews are saying that this is garbage anyway so it will blend in among all the other garbage on Steam. Being quiet would be the best action to take.
 
Why even give these tools an audience? They're making the type of games that only Jim Sterling plays to laugh at on his channel.

It's not like this can really "backfire" on them anyway because they had no audience to begin with. If anything giving them attention for this is bound to get a few purchases from the dregs of the internet that want to show how edgy they are.
 
Ha, thought that said Devolver for a minute! Glad it's not them as I like a lot of their games.

Fuck this employee in particular though. I don't want to damn the whole company as it all depends on how they react to this (assuming it's all one guy posting these messages)
 
I was betting this is a russian writing in english, jusging by the mistake. Couldn't find the location of the studio on my mobilw browaer, but the founder's name sounds russian. So I wouldn't be surprised.

Can anyone confirm?
 
Have statements like these ever *not* backfired??? It's such a fine line between reckless confidence and ignorance, sometimes.
 
We are living in an age where i genuinely feel the developers are doing this on purpose to direct attention to their game....which is working.
 
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
holy shit stay away from the comment section in the steam discussion forums
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Unfortunately, I think this should be applied in any comment section regarding LGBT+ topics.

I don't have the stomach to read some of the things some people say to/about people just because they're a part of the LGBT+ community. I fail to see how anyone can have such a lack of empathy.
 
orochi91 said:
Eh? Why?

Are posters on that forum defending the devs bigotry or bashing them?
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these are just from the FIRST of 12 pages and it's not even all of them

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jesus why isn't valve moderating this kind of shit?
 
Welp, this is what happens when you handle your own PR I guess.

Like geeze guy, why in the world would you have thought this would have been a good idea?

Enter the Dragon Punch said:
jesus why isn't valve moderating this kind of shit?
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Valve has never, EVER, cared.

We know the loop this undergoes. These guys will be shitheads about this for the next 12 hours. When they realize it's not going to disappear, they're going to nuke their forums and ban people who tried taking them to task, hoping that it'll all blow over and claiming that they never nuked their forums or banned anyone.

Valve lets this happen every single time.
 
“We’re not support lgbt. Please, just f**k you.”
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These guys are so stupid.

Not even just for the statement, but why do they feel the need to respond like this? Immature.

The grammar also.... definitely not from a English first language country (at least I would hope not).

Fucking bigots.
Enter the Dragon Punch said:
these are just from the FIRST of 12 pages and it's not even all of them



jesus why isn't valve moderating this kind of shit?
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Calling people SJW is the shortcut to dog-whistle politics on any forum, not just internet, to "ignore everything that person says."

It's basically a trash term that people resort to when they have no argument in the first place.
 
This thread shows the issue with the topic. You better had not opened it.

No one gave a fuck about this game. No news outlet gave them space, no one talked about "Operation Caucasus" for even a second. This game is so generic and bad, it was deemed to fail. End of story. Now they got everyones attention. EVERYONES. Media, LGBT groups, the random guy on the internet. And they will have good sales soon, because there will be people who put down money just because they said that and media (including NeoGAF) made a big fuzz about it. The guys "who are against the mainstream" will support this shit game and shit words.

They won, regardless what you think, write or do about it. That is the only issue here.
 
That's such a weird thing to say. I don't think i've ever heard anyone say that they don't support LGBT, i mean i've seen people not supporting them but not making a point of it.
 
Given how Jim Sterling is part of the lgbtq community we are in for one hell of a jimquisiyion next week.

And also fuck these developers and I hope they never, ever obtain any success as a game developer while they hold these, or any, bigoted views. I hope your dream dies.
 
Apparently the game is garbage anyways. Read this review: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Tincup_The_Middleman/recommended/442180/

Well this game came along a few months ago and released exactly as what it released as now as well. A demo.

Last time they tried selling it off on Steam it was removed within a day because of this attempted scam. Now the game is back and it is EXACTLY the same. A 1 lvl stage no bigger then a football field. With around 15 enemies armed with guns and a few raised areas for decoration with a water area in the middle (water is fake and has no depth even though the menu states there is a swimming option.....) where you can walk on it a-la-Jesus.

Now if that wasn't enough , during the first attempt to pass off this scam. We the players tried helping them by telling them what NOT to do. Like censoring criticism when true , lying about the state of the game , selling a demo (that didn't work then) as a game (for a game not even started on...) (their store page never reflected that it was a demo even though it was on the released page).

They didn't listen and shortly during the out pour in the forums , Steam removed the entire store page.

Now they are back and yes the demo actually works now (somewhat...). Sadly its not a game or even much of a demo. It took me all of 2 mins to kill all enemies and realize that there was nothing else in this "game" , certainly not an hours worth of content. Much less any actual fun . Hell, any actual gaming to be done.
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This whole exchange is entertaining as well:

Tincup_the_Middleman: So is it true the game files have religious text in them ?
Dream Games: There is an english (language) editor
Tincup_the_Middleman: There is a quote talking about Allah in the game's files ?
Dream Games: :D
Tincup_the_Middleman: Yes or no ?
Dream Games: It was just some words
Tincup_the_Middleman: Which file folder ?
Tincup_the_Middleman: I wanna see it!
Dream Games: If you will download it, you'll see the don't open this file.bat
Dream Games: You saw?


This is after he posted this semi threat which I have since reported through email directly to Steam.

Tincup_the_Middleman: You won't listen now either so it doesn't matter :)
Dream Games: Yep. You are following a religion?
Tincup_the_Middleman: My beliefs are none of your business.
Dream Games: No. I just want to know it.
Tincup_the_Middleman: If you knew how to properly read in English you would know what it was I mentioned in my review about religion.
Tincup_the_Middleman: I don't care what you want to know lol
Dream Games: you mean, league of legends?
Tincup_the_Middleman: I sincerely don't care about you or your game at all. Its just a personal issue I have with scammers in general pushing abandonware out.
Dream Games: wow :D
Tincup_the_Middleman: Enjoy the time on Steam while it lasts. Last time Steam removed you guys in under a day.
Dream Games: you don't afraid?
Dream Games: you're not afraid?
Tincup_the_Middleman: Of nothing and no one.
Dream Games: :D Okay. We'll see the result. We're not believe to 3. :))))
Tincup_the_Middleman: Am I supposed to be afraid of something ?
Dream Games: Yes. You must.
Tincup_the_Middleman: Its fine if you don't believe me. The end result will be the same. You guys will go away soon enough.
Tincup_the_Middleman: Oh really ? I must ?
Dream Games: There is no ... but... you remember it , right? :D
Tincup_the_Middleman: Be scared of what then ?
Tincup_the_Middleman: Let me show you what true freedom is.
Tincup_the_Middleman: Religion is a joke used by the powerful to control the weak minded
Dream Games: Islam.


ADDITION: So this just happened. I get added by the dev and have this wonderful conversation I have since reported to Steam for harassment as well.

Tincup_the_Middleman: Why did you add me again ? lol
Dream Games: If it's problem, i can remove. But, if it's not, stay in friend list.
Tincup_the_Middleman: Its not a problem. Just to inform you I reported your game directly to the cyber crimes unit of the FBI as well for the religious propaganda in the game's files.
Dream Games: There is no problem.
Dream Games: If valve'll see something going wrong, trust me, they'll remove it.
Tincup_the_Middleman: I also handed over all transcripts of all conversations including your ISlamic threat.
Dream Games: :D
Dream Games: "Islamic" threat? :D
Tincup_the_Middleman: Idk if you guys are really just some young muslim trolls or real extremists but either way , I really don't think you guys realize what you are doing is illegal
Tincup_the_Middleman: Putting religious propaganda on a game is 100% illegal
Tincup_the_Middleman: Telling people to be afraid of ISLAM... is a good way to have the FBI on your ♥♥♥
Tincup_the_Middleman: Either way idc. I did my part and properly reported it all to the proper authorities.
Dream Games: Do you know, what is the "propoganda"?
Dream Games: *propaganda
Tincup_the_Middleman: I could care less if Valve does anything to you or not. You escalated it to a whole nother level with your Islamic propaganda
Dream Games: We just added a file to game file side. And we've wrote " don't open this file" :)
Tincup_the_Middleman: Again. That is 100% illegal buddy.
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It seems like they feel they can do what they want under the guise of being Muslim.
 
In a world where we have laws passed in the USA to make life harder for LGBT...I'm not even surprised anymore.

Just saddened. =(
 
DoublePayje said:
This thread shows the issue with the topic.

No one gave a fuck about this game. No news outlet game them space, no one talked about "Operation Caucasus" for even a second. This game is so generic and bad, it was deemed to fail. End of story. Now they got everyones attention. EVERYONES. Media, LGBT groups, the random guy on the internet. And they will have good sales soon, because there will be people to put down money just because they said that and media (including NeoGAF) made a big fuzz about it.

They won, regardless what you think, write or do about it. That is the only issue here.
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Debatable. The game is clearly bad quality, I doubt it will get any meaningful sales.
 
This is horrible. I'm never going to buy anything from these guys.

Hamster Plugin said:
This is just going to increase sales for the game - I would have never heard of this shit if it wasn't reported on Kotaku. Look at the comments for the review, we're going to get a horde of right wingers buying this shit to support it.

Other Steam reviews are saying that this is garbage anyway so it will blend in among all the other garbage on Steam. Being quiet would be the best action to take.
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Homophobia in the industry and community shouldn't be hidden, in my opinion. It should always be brought to light, so it can be dealt with. In my case, now that I know this I won't be supporting this developer.
 
DoublePayje said:
This thread shows the issue with the topic.

No one gave a fuck about this game. No news outlet game them space. This game is so generic and bad, it was deemed to fail.

Now they got everyones attention. EVERYONES. Media, LGBT groups, the random guy on the internet. And they will have good sales soon, because there will be people to put down money just because they said that and media (including NeoGAF) made a big fuzz about it.

They won, regardless what you think, write or do about it. That is the only issue here.
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The Hatred approach, I could see it

Though that one was worse because you had geniuses going through their facebooks and shit to dig up anything for articles. "they wore black metal shirts and the one guy likes a Neo-Nazi thing on facebook, wowwwww"

Hopefully it ends with people seeing this and saying "yeah that's dumb"
 
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