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Pandemic was discontinued from Steam because it shows how normal people deal with pandemics (www.thegamer.com)
posted 4 years ago by Conspirologist 4 years ago by Conspirologist +55 / -0
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– bamboozler1 30 points 4 years ago +30 / -0

Perhaps because Pandemic features a real pandemic that actually behaves like a pandemic, and kills en masse, rather than a fucking media pandemic that we mostly only know exists thanks to television, radio, newspapers, smartphones and the fucking internet..??

Perhaps because they didn’t want us to question the fact that, “Hmm, gee, this whole Covid malarkey sure don’t feel like one of those fictional pandemics we all know about…”

I’m willing to assume there is shitty politics at play, here, rather than whatever bullshit justification others might think up…

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– GimmeFuelGimmeFire 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

"Weird, this highly rated game claims viruses become weaker after they mutate to infect more people, and viruses that are actually super deadly tend to burn out rapidly. Maybe there's something else going on here..."

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– Galean 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

I never played so I have no idea why it would be considered "politically incorrect"

What seems kind of strange is them pulling down the game without virtue signaling.

Looking at the screen shot of diversity in the article , the company is probably as left as most other companies, you would expect it to be happy to say it is removing the game to save the world from COVID. I'm a bit suspicious and I do not like jumping to conclusions without learning more on the situation.

And you can still buy the boardgame. that is the bases for the app.

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– BandageBandolier 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Nothing politically incorrect about it, it's a pretty simple token management boardgame in its base form and appropriately doomsdayish in tone for the covidian's tastes.

With the original boardgame still for sale, I'd say it's more likely there's a problem with the licencing agreement with the 3rd party publisher for the video game version than wildly speculate any other reasons.

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– FrostedCricketFlakes 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

They could have just thought it was in poor taste recently. Possibly lost someone, and just wanted to be done with it, or were pressured by someone else for similar reasons. I don't agree, but would understand.

There could be a licensing issue, but that would have been reported.

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– Knife-TotingRat 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

Well, Plauge, Inc is still a thing. I mean, it's a game where you get to play the disease.

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– Caesah 20 points 4 years ago +20 / -0

It's because Plague Inc teaches people that diseases present with no symptoms, infect everyone, and turn into Super-Ebola.

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– TakenusernameA 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Maybe your actually playing as Fauci in plague inc and your just doing a little gain of function research.

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– acp_k2win 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

still appears to be available on piratebay and other trackers

few seeds though so get it while its hot!

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– SupremeReader 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

You made me give a click to The Gamer, you fay gaggot.

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– deleted 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0
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– DomitiusOfMassilia [M] 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Post Reported for: Unarchived link to the gamer, delete the post

Reporter has a point. Please don't post unarchived links to these freaks.

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– Conspirologist [S] 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

I'm sorry, I have no experience with unfriendly sites.

Do you have a list of unfriendly sites?

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– DomitiusOfMassilia 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Well, examine some of them. TheGamer is a SJW Leftist shithole. But we do have a list on the Reddit sub: here

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– Conspirologist [S] 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Thanks, mate. I bookmarked it. I only know about CNN and Guardian.

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– deleted 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

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