Devotion, the Taiwanese horror game that brought about some controversy earlier this week, has been quickly pulled from Steam.
When Devotion gamers discovered an in-game Easter egg that references the Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh meme – which mocks China’s president – it brought about an enormous backlash that resulted in Chinese players review bombing the game on Steam.
After developer Red Candle apologised for the incident, the game mysteriously disappeared from Steam. Since then, the developer issued a statement saying that the choice to take the web page offline was resulting from “technical issues that cause unexpected crashes and among other reasons.”
“We are pulling Devotion off from Steam store to have another complete QA check,” it reads.
“At the identical time we’d prefer to take this chance to ease the heightened strain in our neighborhood resulted from our earlier artwork materials incident, our workforce would additionally overview our game materials as soon as once more ensuring no different unintended supplies was inserted in.
“Hopefully this might assist all viewers to concentrate on the game itself once more upon its return.”
It’s understood that the workforce misplaced its Chinese writer, which is probably going another excuse why the game isn’t at the moment accessible on the market on Steam.
At the time of writing, Devotion’s web page on Steam redirects to the shop’s homepage, which implies there’s no manner for gamers to buy it. The dialogue discussion board, nonetheless, remains online the place gamers proceed to voice their opinions about the entire state of affairs.
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