Today I saw a news that irritated me, it was about Payday 2 , the game was pulled out from Steam only one day after release. I know, this might not be shocking to you all, but i got to say that Steam is trying to do their best for small developers by freeing them from Greenlight
But why would they do such a thing after all this good will?
Well, the reason is because the game has been stolen and re-released on Steam! Yes you got it right ! Someone made a clone of Payday 2 , and he released it on Steam under the same publisher ( 505Games ) and even using an almost identical cover and name ( “PAYDAY 2: .. ” instead of “PAYDAY 2: Crimewave edition” )
So, who would steal a game and release it on Steam?
Well , he is called Riley and he seem to be a re-seller from China . He even has a website where you can get your games for him! ( http://steam2fast.com) and he just released an album on imgur of all his “selling activities” (http://imgur.com/a/rNhTp ) I got to say, this is really unfair for the real devs, i mean 505Games actually took time and money to make a good game, while he just steal it and re-sell it for cheap!
Of course there is an update on steam that talk about this issue : http://steamcommunity.com/games/218620/announcements/detail/1201645208258709815 They said they are gonna take legal action to Riley , but i don’t know how it’ll end. Of course , i’m not saying this is the only reason why Riley did that, but his goal was to resell the game as fast as possible for cheap , so he just do it on Steam because thats where everyone can find you!
Why won’t payday 2 launch on steam anymore?
Some of you may know that i love Steam , they doing lots of good things for devs and gamers, so i hope this will help them to fix this issue !
So why won’t payday 2 launch anymore on steam?
Well , it seems Riley got scared because 505 games hired some guy to search him out ( http://steam2fast.com/BEWARE%20STEAMID_IDENTIFIER/) and he is gonna take legal action , so i think they got scared and decided to give back the game to 505 Games . He also closed his website steam2fast.com and maybe a lot of refunds were made on steam? Who knows!
As for now , i don’t think Steam will take any action against him because he gave back the game to 505 games, they are just gonna wait for a lawsuit or something like that. I hope Riley can get what he deserves!
And so, no more Payday 2 on steam
For those who got confused with all this stuff, here is a summary :
- He is called Riley , he is the re-seller from china who stole payday 2 and re-released it on steam.
- Payed for Steam, Payday 2 launched only one day on steam.
- Riley got scared after 505 games hired some guy to search him out , so he gave back the game and closed his website.
- No more Payday 2 on steam…
- 505 games gonna take legal action against Riley i guess, but we will know soon!
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Conclusion
I don’t think Riley is the only one who does this , he just got caught! This game thing is everywhere, but i’m not gonna say more about it so you can read on other websites. AND THIS IS WHY PAYDAY 2 GOT PULLED OUT FROM STEAM AFTER ONE DAY OF LAUNCHING THERE! Sorry for my bad english , i’m not a native speaker!