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IMHO, releasing a new pandemic game (where I assume your goal is to kill as many people as possible with a virus) in the middle of a real-life pandemic is tone-

IMHO, releasing a new pandemic game (where I assume your goal is to kill as many people as possible with a virus) in the middle of a real-life pandemic is tone-deaf. It also very much looks like "appearing to profit from a tragic event with no discernible benefit to the victims" which is an example of banned content at https://play.google.com/about/restricted-content/inappropriate-content/ https://play.google.com/about/restricted-content/inappropria... If you really want to release this right now on a different platform, maybe follow the example of Plague Inc's developer: https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/news/175-plague-inc-gives-a-quarter-of-a-million-dollars-to-fight-covid-19 https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/news/175-plague-inc-gives...

JacksonGariety 6y ago
Aren't a lot of people profiting off of coronavirus? Zoom, Nintendo, Netflix, etc.? And what about viral apocalypse movies like 'Contagion'? This stuff helps people cope with stress.
LukaszO 6y ago
"where I assume your goal is to kill as many people as possible with a virus" Game goal is the opposite. I can't imagine i can run funds or donate anything, i am a single private person, ndemic creations is a professional company. You can check out the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305370/Pandemia_Virus_Outbreak/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305370/Pandemia_Virus_Ou...
- rnotaro 6y ago
  Your main trailer when I open the steam store page is not in english. You should present the english trailer first. Does steam allows different screenshot / videos for different languages?
  - LukaszO 6y ago
    Thanks for the info, i changed videos order. You can set the language for the video and screenshots but it somehow displays for everyone.
arsenide 6y ago
"releasing a new pandemic game" Developed across the last 3 years? This seems like an inapt description of what OP described here.
runawaybottle 6y ago
I’ll argue that it is not tasteless because it is a natural phenomena. Tone deaf would be a Columbine FPS (which the shooters I think made themselves).
- lopmotr 6y ago
  natural disasters are explicitly listed as banned by the Play Store link the GP posted. "We don't allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event." Seems like a clear violation even if it is a stupid rule.
  - runawaybottle 6y ago
    Doesn’t make sense, what if you simulate a virus spread or Hurricane?
andromeduck 6y ago
Who are you to judge what content we can and can't enjoy?

JacksonGariety 6y ago

Aren't a lot of people profiting off of coronavirus? Zoom, Nintendo, Netflix, etc.? And what about viral apocalypse movies like 'Contagion'? This stuff helps people cope with stress.

LukaszO 6y ago

"where I assume your goal is to kill as many people as possible with a virus" Game goal is the opposite. I can't imagine i can run funds or donate anything, i am a single private person, ndemic creations is a professional company. You can check out the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305370/Pandemia_Virus_Outbreak/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305370/Pandemia_Virus_Ou...

rnotaro 6y ago
Your main trailer when I open the steam store page is not in english. You should present the english trailer first. Does steam allows different screenshot / videos for different languages?
- LukaszO 6y ago
  Thanks for the info, i changed videos order. You can set the language for the video and screenshots but it somehow displays for everyone.

arsenide 6y ago

"releasing a new pandemic game" Developed across the last 3 years? This seems like an inapt description of what OP described here.

runawaybottle 6y ago

I’ll argue that it is not tasteless because it is a natural phenomena. Tone deaf would be a Columbine FPS (which the shooters I think made themselves).

lopmotr 6y ago
natural disasters are explicitly listed as banned by the Play Store link the GP posted. "We don't allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event." Seems like a clear violation even if it is a stupid rule.
- runawaybottle 6y ago
  Doesn’t make sense, what if you simulate a virus spread or Hurricane?

andromeduck 6y ago

Who are you to judge what content we can and can't enjoy?