Comments on: (Updated) Valve cooperates in blocking Steam mod in Korea for depicting “historical revisionism”

By: Joshua Brandenburg

Joshua Brandenburg — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:59:46 +0000

I mean Valve didn’t really cooperate, the mod would be illegal in Korea anyway. I bet it’s not blocked in other countries. I’ve even seen a lot of sites saying Valve agreed to take it off the steam page in every country and Valve got a ton of backlash for it which makes no sense to me, anyone that’s been on Valve for years should know Gabe Newell better than that. It’s stupid. Valve has said in like 2018 they’d officially allow any game or mod as long as it wasn’t illegal and as long as it wasn’t just a trolling game.

By: 마닐라 여행

마닐라 여행 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:22:25 +0000

The South Korean Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) initially blocked the mod’s distribution within the country.

By: Lsy

Lsy — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:42:59 +0000

@Alexander R. N.

You can display any flag you want on your Steam profile. It has no bearing on reality.

By: pet

pet — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:29:21 +0000

Video games initially used to be censored to supposedly protect kids. But it was obvious in the first place that this was not the reason

By: marz

marz — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:37:45 +0000

bruh

By: westernersaremorons

westernersaremorons — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:40:45 +0000

@ToTo

yes lets “balance” historical events to fit your restrictive worldwiew.

hyuck hyuck.

By: Gorgonzola

Gorgonzola — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:51:09 +0000

So what if, aren’t games exactly the place for this nonsense? To alter reality? Everything n eds to be censored…. Can’t even fkn breath on this crust

By: Wigga

Wigga — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:56:47 +0000

I appreciate the historical sensitivities especially as this is recent history, but I do think it was wrong to go along with this. South Korea is not as democratic as we like to pretend, so I understand going along with the regime’s wishes in local servers but I don’t think people in other countries should be told what they can and can’t create by the Korean government.

By: Kek.kek

Kek.kek — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:52:15 +0000

New Tiananmen Square mod just dropped
Do tank joyrides over agressive protesters
Get 64 bonus points for drawing the communist china party flag in blood red tank tracks

By: SekTheFirst

SekTheFirst — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:08:15 +0000

@Glhbb

So because Valve supposedly allows Nazi historical revisionism mods on the workshop (they don’t, you’re literally just lying, but ok), them taking down this specific Korean historical revisionism mod…makes them “natonazi”…?

Do you even hear yourself?

Do you even have a brain? You should consider growing one, and not talking out of your ass and lying about there being nazi mods on the workshop. There are none, those get taken down even faster than this mod was.

By: ToTo

ToTo — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:01:26 +0000

Mods have been removed on nexus from any game that race swaps/gender swaps established white male characters.

All of this is political. If it was a historical event based on a Communist uprising, where the protestors were armed and destuctive, and the mod made them out to be peaceful with no guns, the mod would remain.

All we ask is for balance, for consistency.

By: MikoNoPants

MikoNoPants — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:23:28 +0000

If they were sent a legal request by a government board that demanded removal and it was legitimate and recognized, they don’t have a choice in the matter but to remove it .

By: meatballs

meatballs — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 02:15:57 +0000

Plenty of mods for hoi4 have been taken down for nazi revisionism. At least name an example of your complaints.

By: Alexander R. N.

Alexander R. N. — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:41:38 +0000

Correction: The mod author is from Hong Kong (So no question that they’re Chinese at least nationally) as displayed on their steam profile

By: Glhbb

Glhbb — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:38:59 +0000

There are thousands of mods on the workshop for just about every game involving war or politics that do revisionism, curious that all those mods where you play as nazi germany that deny war crimes or rewrite the history of war to make nazis sound better are fine, but this is too far. Seems like valve is just an extension of natonazi thought.