Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is an urban planner with a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. So it’s not for everyone, but it certainly has its fans.
Unfortunately, these fans are now the only ones who can play the game as it is now unavailable to purchase by anyone else after a DMCA Disable The game has reportedly been removed from the Steam marketplace.
In a post It is claimed by the game’s developers, Slovakian studio 3Division, that a player “once a respected member of our community” has gone rogue and started attacking the game’s online presence, attempting to download everything from trailers to the website of the game to remove.
Why? It is alleged that this player had written a guide on how to play the game more realistically and that while the developers were already working on a game mode that would do just that, they agreed to include it in the credits of the game as goodwill Game’s gesture given his notoriety in the community.
3Division says that after being told that he would not be added to the credits until this new mode was completed and released, this player then “began abusing the YouTube reporting system by issuing copyright strikes against one of our most helpful influencers.” ”, and so on. As a result of this behavior, they withdrew their offer to officially thank him.
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As answer to Theit is claimed the player then reported the game’s website and had it taken down (the link now yoursback to the main page of the company of 3Division), then began reporting on other official YouTube videos from the studio as well. Matters have now escalated to the point that the game itself has been removed from Steam due to a DMCA request and the player “now claims that they own the rights to the [realistic] Game Mode”. For what it’s worth, 3Division says they’re “working on fixing the issue”.
