Earth: Year 2066 Removed From Steam, Valve Offering Refunds

In an interesting turn of events Valve has removed the Early Access game Earth: Year 2066 from Steam and stated refunds are possible.

I am not exactly sure what led to this, but it seems they weren't honest to Valve and everyone else about something:

Chris D, ValveOn Steam, developers make their own decisions about promotion, features, pricing and publication. However, Steam does require honesty from developers in the marketing of their games.

We have removed Earth: Year 2066 from Early Access on Steam. Customers who purchased the game will be able to get a refund on the store page until Monday May 19th.

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This is interesting since Valve are trying as they say to create an open store, but here they are doing some actual curating and protection their users. I can't say kudos to Valve yet, as it's not clear what happened exactly from that quote.

It seems Valve also wiped their entire forum, so it's going to be hard to get more info on this one.

It seems Reddit helped makes this happen with some campaign for a refund, see it here.

An apparent chat with the developer revealed he had fake accounts doing positive reviews & positive forum posts from his own friends and the game was using footage from another game in a trailer apparently.

Not only that, but the developer was editing forum posts changing what people where saying about the game, Steam however notes on a post when it has been edited and gamers also sent in screen-shots of that.

What a saga. Good on Valve for actually removing it, what a con.

You can see a video of the failure here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhbvDhPU7U Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.