I just think they stopped caring about Greenlight.
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It's the exact same game. The one on the store is even called "Sledgehammer/GearGrinder" as if they didn't know which name to go with so they did a "and/or".
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Look at developers. At screeen
you've got buka enterteinment and target games
but in
greenlight it is head up games.
Maybe it's some kind of legal problem
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Lmao !!! Ok soo that dev added "Sledgehammer / Gear Grinder" with the help of a publisher straight to the steam store.
And while they were doing that, they still had "GearGrinder" on the GL list.
I'm sorry steam ... that's not a loophole, that's a bloody black hole.
They just changed the name of the game a little, and got to get on the steam front page 2 times, step aside Hammerpoint(think thats the name of the troll devs) There's a new kid on the block !
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Doing some research, here is what I have found! The game originally came out in 2008, although 'Sledgehammer / Gear Grinder' was only added to Steam a month ago. It appears like it was originally from Targem Games and Buka Entertainment who happens to be owned by everyone's favourite 1C Company!
On the Targem Games Wikipedia it states it was originally released in Russia and then a year later, it had a worldwide release. The odd thing is the citation from the worldwide release links to Headup Games' website.
My theory is that Targem and Buka released it in Russia, Headup Games helped with the worldwide release. Headup Games then put the game on Greenlight, Targem and Buka noticed this and used their connections to 1C in order to get the game on Steam before Headup did.
I have no real proof, but that's the only thing that's making any sense to me.
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That's looks to be an oversight as the game was Greenlit on October 29. The situation with GearGrinder is quite different as it involves multiple companies.
I already gave my theory of what happened and it seems quite likely.
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So they greenlight "devs" are just thiefs or they're the same ppl? they already greenlit some games before...http://steamcommunity.com/id/didl666/myworkshopfiles/?section=greenlight I don't understand how you can release a game on greenlight without having permission from the devs...
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There is that game Motor Rock that is removed from Steam but the developer is ?allowed? to sell Steam keys that still activate on Steam from his website.
So I would say it's a really wide gray zone.
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There was no theft, all companies involved are associated with the game.
I believe it's the result of different publishers having rights in different regions. As Steam is digital, there is no real "region" to define who is entitled to sell the game.
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I don't see why such a big deal out of it.
Again, why should i/we care????? whats the damn big deal? it happened, move along.
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that yes, but reading all posts here, some make too big deal out of it, like its the end of the world. Now that it happened and steam knows/will know soon, they will be more careful from now on, that still doesn't explain though why almost everyone is going crazy like the sky fall off on their heads. I suppose i need to get used that in this world there are lots of people that "want to make gold out of dust". :))
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Haha no one is making a big deal about anything! This is a forum about Steam and games, so if a funny thing happens with Steam and/or games you may end up seeing a post about it. It's not like this is a wildly off-topic thread for this site.
If you don't think it warrants discussion or you're not interested, then it should be you who just ignores it and "moves along" :)
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So, it looks like GearGrinder was just Greenlit, which is an odd thing to happen considering the game is already on Steam!
Good times.
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