Infamous "shovelware" developer Silicon Echo Studios has been forced to shut down after Valve pulled over 200 of the company’s titles from Steam.
After a series of user reviews called Echo Studio’s titles “asset flips,” (games with pre-bought assets copy and pasted on to simple gameplay mechanics), Valve has stepped in and removed all of them.
In an email to Polygon, a representative for Echo Studios claims that this take down was done without warning and that the studio’s “reputation is destroyed beyond repair.” Silicon Echo claims that Valve told the studio is its games were consistently reported “primarily for practices that are deceptive to the customers,” and that they felt that this was not grounds for “complete account and business termination.”
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