Soviet city-builder game taken off Steam due to "nonsense" DMCA strike from rogue fan
Soviet city-builder PC game Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic has been struck by a DMCA copyright violation issued by an angry fan.
As a result, the game from Slovakian developer 3Division is currently unavailable to purchase on Steam and does not appear in searches, though is still playable by those who have already purchased it.
The claim has been made by a fan of the game who wanted to be included in the game's credits, but has since gone rogue.
«Recently we got the first enemy of our Soviet Republic,» a statement on Steam from 3Division's Peter Adamcik reads in response. «This enemy is making our life harder and significantly slowing down the development process. He is, ehm, he WAS once a respected member of our community and one of the best party members, but he decided to betray our Republic, our Party and our ideals.»
3Division began work on a realistic mode for the game, something the developer said was intended from the start but was not a critical feature to be included in Early Access.
The fan has published a guide on how to play the game more realistically. While the developer said it would be happy to include the fan in the credits, he instead has issued a number of copyright strikes.
«As he chose to use extortion and abuse, we became angry about this, and decided to never mention the name of the challenge he allegedly 'invented' again, and ignore him,» reads Adamcik's post, which details the points of the claim.
«But this guy reported our website, and the website was taken down. He also reported our video about the last content update where realistic mode was introduced, and the video was taken down. He was successful because those reports are handled by BOTs, not humans. We will issue our reactions, and
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