Citybuilding is back on the table
Last month, city-builderWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republicwasremoved from Steamfollowing a DMCA takedown notice filed by a disgruntled player. The industrial management game is now back on Steam and available for purchase again. “We want to apologize to those who were looking to purchase the game and were unable to,” says the latestdeveloper blogposted to Steam. Studio 3Division continue to say, “We realise that we underestimated the situation, and it quickly escalated to a point that posed a threat to our game.”
The original dispute came from a community member who wrote a guide on the ‘Cosmonaut Mode’, which was essentially a ruleset to make Workers & Resources more challenging. 3Division later added a harder, more realistic game mode with a few similarities to Cosmonaut, which pushed the guide writer to ask for credit in-game. 3Division said this was something they would “probably do” after they finished making the game, allegedely angering the guide writer and prompting a DMCA filing.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is back onSteamfor £28. There’s also a new Waste Management update on the way and you can read all the details in the newestdev blog.
