On Monday, Destructive Creations'
Hatred was
removed from Steam Greenlight because it didn't meet Valve's publishing standards.
Now the game has been reinstated to Greenlight and the developers have published a
screenshot to their Facebook page of what they claim is a direct apology from Gabe Newell.
"Yesterday I heard that we were taking
Hatred down from Greenlight," reads the note. "Since I wasn't up to speed, I asked around internally to find out why we had done that. It turns out that it wasn't a good decision, and we'll be putting
Hatred back up. My apologies to you and your team. Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers."
Steam Greenlight's
developer guidelines -- which
Hatred was presumably seen to breach earlier this week -- still include only the vague restriction that submissions "must not contain offensive material or violate copyright or intellectual property rights."
Hatred --
described by its creators as "an isometric shooter with disturbing atmosphere of mass killing" -- certainly seems to cross that line, but (as the developers pointed out in an email earlier this week) so too does
Postal, which has been available for purchase on Steam for some time.
