( The petition ended up gathering more than 200,000 signatures.) Valve only pulled that after a Mercer Island mom gathered tens of thousands of signatures to get it removed. In May last year, we told you about the game 'Active Shooter,' which simulated a school mass shooting. It's not the first time Valve has come under fire over a third-party developer's game on its platform. “Kudos to Valve for saying we're not going to move forward on this,” Stone said. We know that when we look at a lot of preconditions of people likely to harm other people, to commit sexual assault, normalized violence is part of their experience,” Stone said.Īfter days of controversy, Valve pulled the game around noon Wednesday, saying in part in a statement posted online, 'After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think 'rape day' poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on steam.' “It (the game) normalizes really horrific behavior.