Steam Removes Game from Sale After Dev Includes Transphobic Rant in Patch Notes
Popular Twitch streamer Clara «Keffals» Sorrenti is known to be the target of harassment from time to time, and a game developer has had their game removed from Steam after a transphobic rant pointing to the trans livestreamer. This rant was spotted in Domina's patch notes by several fans that read the text that was mostly irrelevant to the changes made to the game before Steam promptly took action.
Keffals is among a growing list of swatted Twitch streamers to publicly speak about their experiences, but the negativity towards the livestreamer continues despite such a risk being taken with her life already. The Twitch community quickly discovered that those targeting Keffals came from a group called Kiwi Farms, but the popular Twitch streamer may face a new threat in Nicholas Gorissen from Dolphin Barn Incorporated. Because of the statements made in Domina's patch notes, Steam users can no longer purchase the simulation strategy game and Dolphin Barn Incorporated has been promptly removed as a developer on the storefront as well.
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Domina's recent patch notes that called it Dominus attacked Keffals and the transgender community with slurs and reference to dead naming, which may have stoked the negativity that the popular Twitch streamer has already experienced. The rant goes on multiple tangents and almost entirely ignores Domina and even suggests that the game itself didn't exist prior to its removal from Steam. Nicholas Gorissen publicly disclosed Valve's given reason for removing the game from Steam, and it largely revolves around «insults targeting another person,» though the game may have still been banned if the transphobia remained vague given how
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