Valve say controversial Mount & Blade: Warband mod accused of historical revisionism was taken down by creator

Previous reports appeared to suggest the level holders mightiness person heavy sixed 'Gwangju Running Man'

Valve accidental a Mount & Blade: Warband mod which reportedly misrepresented the events of the South Korean Gwangju Uprising was pulled offline worldwide by its creator, with the folks down Steam lone having blocked its organisation successful South Korea.

The mod, reported connected by Automaton yesterday, was called "Gwangju Running Man" and was a full conversion that turned Mount and Blade's medieval warfare into an seemingly warped depiction of 1980's student-led protests against the subject coup of Chun Doo-hwan, which were violently supressed by the country's army. Around 200 radical are estimated to person been killed during the uprising.

However, contempt records to the contrary, arsenic good arsenic the South Korean authorities apologising successful 2018 for subject atrocities during the protests, Automaton cites the Korean Yonhap News Agency arsenic reporting that Gwangju Running Man "depicted protesters arsenic equipped and convulsive criminals, frankincense framing the subject regime’s brutality arsenic justified."

As you tin imagine, deliberately rewriting a cardinal infinitesimal successful South Korea's past and combat against being ruled by US-backed dictatorships successful specified a mode made the mod precise controversial.

It's since disappeared from Steam Workshop, with Valve having clarified that the mod's creator was liable for it being pulled worldwide, portion the institution had lone moved to artifact entree to the mod successful South Korea. Initial reports had appeared to suggest Valve whitethorn person been down the worldwide takedown, astatine the petition of South Korea's Game Rating and Administration Committee, but alternatively it seems the institution person dealt with this successful a mode that much intimately mirrors their antecedently established modus operandi.

That modus operandi, for amended oregon worse, is to "allow everything onto the Steam Store, but for things that we determine are illegal, oregon consecutive up trolling", with this mod looking similar it fell into the archetypal class successful South Korea specifically.

Here's hoping the adjacent clip Mount & Blade: Warband modding hits the news, it's for thing cool, alternatively than what looks to person been violative and far-right leaning utter bollocks.