Yeah yeah beep boop every taxi company will have issues because crazies can infiltrate any business, we can't expect perfection blah blah.

This comment is a thing of beauty. Not only do you shame someone for acting badly in a thread about "What was the worst thing you've ever done at a New Years party?" where the acting badly = stealing a bottle of off-brand juice with no other bad outcome, but you manage to shade the former Corcoran, obviously dredging…

Hmm...in my experience, fivesomes are like student group projects - two or three people do all of the good work, while the rest do a little busy work and then grow bored or lazy and later brag to their friends about feats they never did.

My kid is going to be watching me donate his fun gifts (non-necessities) to a charity because he can't stop stealing.

I suppose a rock could be used to manage outbursts from kids...definitely don't need a $49.99 one though.

Maybe this is my impractical preggo brain thinking crazy talk, but mothers of Jezebel - is there a way that I can tactfully tell parents of my future children's friends that if their kids aren't vaccinated, they can't play with my kids? Mostly because I don't want a younger not-yet-inoculated sibling to get sick, but…

to be fair, jenny mcCarthy hasn't definitely proven that she's NOT to blame.

You're not really making sense any more. It's Steam's store, they have the right to stock any game they want to stock. The developers can still sell the game through their site and other methods, it's completely up to Valve if they sell it or not -as it is with any type of store.

But it didn't pass Greenlight...

...what? They did refuse to stock it, it was on Greenlight (as in, not on the storefront) and they took it off rather than moving it to the storefront. That is refusing to stock it.

All they do every day is pick and choose which games they should sell. It's part of the damn job, they don't offer every PC game in existence.

It's not censorship. This is the equivalent of not stocking a book in your bookstore because it advocates Nazi behaviour or something. It's their store, they can do what they want, it's not like the game is being pulled from the internet or actually censored at all.

Exactly. You only have to look up and down these comments to see what would happen. Valve could give the best-argued, most perfect riposte to explain why they stock Postal but don't want to stock Hatred, and that wouldn't satisfy these people anyway. It would just lead to more "But whyyyyyyy?" and "Janey gets to go…

So other than semantics why would this game be targeted yet the other 50 thousand games where I can murder people are not?

this is what i first thought, too.

You offer something on the marketplace, the consumer chooses to buy it or not. The only reason they pulled the game was because of the pearl clutching pc police.

I guess so, but in horror and gore movies, the guys responsible for all this is the bad guy, nearly 100% of the time. And while I do agree that games shouldn't always play it safe, this is more akin to jumping off a cliff rather than running alongside it. It's offensive for the sheer purpose of trying to be offensive,…

If they want to take a stand against needlessly harmful games or, at the very least, make a statement about their stance on these matters so developers/gamers can act accordingly, they need to be more specific. It's not that hard, either. Just a few paragraphs would get the job done.

There are plenty of legit reasons to not want to be involved with this project that don't involve cowardice. They have every right to decide what they publish. You might as well call gamers who choose not to buy the game cowards as well, and for the same reason. And you'd be just as wrong.

"Won't somebody please think about the poor men!"