At Vortex, we have repeatedly addressed the Slovak construction strategy Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, reminded of its new generous updates, as well as the numerous successes and popularity it enjoys among players. Now, unfortunately, its authors from the studio 3Division is dealing with a serious problem and the current situation is not pleasant at all. The game disappeared from Steam and her official Web now redirects the player to presentation of the study itself. The situation is quite complicated. So what actually happened?
One of the players who in the past came up with instructions for an alternative way to play, now claims that he owns the rights to Societ Republic, or rather its realistic mode.
The developers are trying to explain the whole problem in comprehensive post. The important thing is that at the moment the game cannot be bought on Steam, because paradoxically one of their fans turned against it and the authors. One of the players who in the past came up with instructions for an alternative way to play, now claims that he owns the rights to Societ Republic, or rather its realistic mode.
The head of the project, Peter Adamčík, is of course already working to resolve the situation and in the meantime lets the player take a deeper look into the entire problem that complicated the entire development. Peter himself says that their rival has become a former respected member of the community.
The writers were still willing to include him in the headlines as a gesture of goodwill, like other clever fans who came up with their own inspirational ideas, but instead the situation quickly escalated.
According to him, it all started when they started work on the realistic mode. The fan in question believes that he himself previously invented it or allowed it to exist. He came up with his own process to make the strategy even more hardcore, but the authors disagree that he was the actual author of their update or directly influenced their work. He said he didn’t help them in any way with development. The team just admits that the popularity of its tutorial has shown the developers how many people really want to play Soviet Republic in a realistic and even more challenging mode than the default one.
The writers were still willing to include him in the headlines as a gesture of goodwill, like other clever fans who came up with their own inspirational ideas, but instead the situation quickly escalated. Before they even had time to update the subtitles, according to them, the person in question started abusing the reporting of videos from the game on YouTube. The developers perceived this as blackmail and decided to cut off communication with the fan and not deal with his alleged invention any further.
The studio is also in contact with Valve, as a former fan later pulled the game from the store, as the team feared.
But it didn’t end there, as you no doubt correctly guessed. The player started reporting the game’s official website as well as a video about the content update, where the authors introduced their own realistic mode to the Soviet Republic. His activity was successful, according to 3Division, because these reports are primarily handled by bots and not humans. At the same time, the team believes that, thanks to communication with specific representatives of YouTube and Wix, they will finally defend that these claims were not justified.
The studio is also in contact with Valve, as a former fan later pulled the game from the store, as the team feared. Peter Adamčík thanked the community for their understanding and promised that they are working hard to solve the problem. For more details on the entire case, see a comprehensive statement.
