Moscow-based Cats Who Play developers have reported that their “Syrian Warfare” strategy (Syria: Russian Storm) was removed from the Steam store without warning.
On the morning of March 1, the studio received a letter from the service about the fact of the removal of Syrian Warfare. The reason was a complaint about the violation of the rights of the copyright holders of the original Warfare game, the Russian company GFi.
As Vitaly Shutov, an employee of Cats Who Play, told the App2Top correspondent, studio representatives contacted the GFi management, and they reported that they had no complaints, and the company did not file any applications. GFi Studio was informed about the development of “Syrian Warfare” in advance.
“We have sent a counter-letter to Valve and are still waiting for a response. We are ready to defend our interests in court. We hope that the service will not delay the consideration of the appeal. It is still unclear who filed a complaint against us, and what relation he has to the original Warfare,” Vitaly added.
He did not rule out that the attack on the domestic project had a political background.
“At the time of disabling the game on Steam, we had 89% positive reviews. The players reacted to the project very well. Negative assessments mostly came with political overtones: propaganda, and so on,” Shutov said.
The real-time strategy “Syrian Warfare” is developed on the basis of the game Warfare studio GFI Russia. The game about the events of the civil war in Syria was released in the fall of 2016. The players noted the interesting tactical gameplay and the authentic atmosphere of the Middle East conflict. In the West, the game was criticized for “glorifying the actions of the Russian military space forces during the Syrian conflict.”
Source: App2Top