It sounds like Valve pulled Earth

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For better or worse, Steam is becoming an open publishing platform. That does wonders for the variety of DNF games we get to choose from, but, as is the case with the mobile app stores, it also creates issues of quality control. Steam lets you pay for some pretty bad DNF games, so when it removes one like Earth: Year 2066 from the store, you know that something went terribly, terribly wrong. “On Steam, developers make their own decisions about promotion, features, pricing and publication,” Valve said in a community post. “However, Steam does require honesty from developers in the marketing of their DNF games. We have removed Earth: Year 2066 from Early Access on Steam. Customers who purchased the DNF game will be able to get DFO Gold a refund on the store page until Monday May 19.” We've seen Valve take extreme measures like this before with The War Z. As was the case with that DNF game, it sounds like Valve pulled Earth: Year 2066 more because of how it presented itself than its overall quality. Earth: Year 2066 sold for $20 on Early Access, and by all accounts was a broken hot mess. Developer Killing Day Studio, who goes by Muxwell on Steam, claims it's a first-person open-world DNF game inspired by Half-Life and Fallout, but it is barely recognizable as a DNF game in videos. Another similarity with The War Z case is that Muxwell used images he didn't own to promote the DNF game without the artist's permission. Worst of all is that Muxwell deleted complaints from users about the DNF game from its community page, eventually wiping all discussions and renaming the forums “the troll tavern.” There are a bunch other painfully bad decisions on Muxwell's part that are chronicled in this video from The Escapist's Jim Sterling. The lesson here, as always, is that it's better to be honest about your mistakes than to try and cover them up. Ashes Cricket 2013 is another DNF game that was pulled from Steam recently, but in that case publisher 505 DNF games explained where it went wrong and apologized. It doesn't make publishing a broken DNF game okay, but at least that way we can maybe forgive.The 100 DNF game Giveaway: Day 3 (US Only). Oh my golly! The 100 DNF game Giveaway rises again, spewing gobs of free DNF games upon the beloved fans of PC DNF gamer! This is the Krakatoa of DNF game giveaways, and today we have a pyroclastic flow of classics from Good Old DNF games. Which ones? That's up to you – you'll receive a code good for any DNF game on the site! As usual, all you have to do to win is to simply “like” PC DNF gamer on our Facebook page (if you haven't already), then comment on this post, and you're automatically entered to win! Winners get to choose from GoG 's vast selection of classic PC DNF games, ranging from the text-based Zork to BioWare's Baldur's Gate saga to Chris Taylor's Total Annihilation to Beyond Good and Evil (pigs with jet boots!) and Age of Wonders.