Valve Bans Another Shady Developer


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In what appears to be a more coordinated approach to quality assurance, Valve has banned yet another shady developer on Steam. Developer Kut Stupid, at least as he is credited on the game’s store page, has one title on Steam: Lemurzin. It’s been on sale since November 2015 at the price of $1.99 and carries a “mostly positive” 78% approval rating.

The game is also unavailable for purchase. I’ve noted Lemurzin a couple of times over the past week for the fact that the game has a highly suspicious DLC package, the “Pterodactyl Edition.” For $99.99, you receive an upgrade to the game that changes the propeller to a dead pterodactyl. Yep, that’s it.

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One hundred smackers for that. You may notice that Lemurzin is the exact same game as ZombieRush, another game that was recently shut down by Valve, down to the fact that both games even use the “dried pterodactyl” image. There have been allegations that Kut Stupid and Arthur Kariev may be the same person/group, but there is equal likelihood that both are using the same asset pack.

ZombieRush is credited to Arthur Kariev, however it was originally submitted by Rai Studio Games, another developer that recently had its games removed from Steam for unscrupulous activity including review botting. It is indeed possible that Arthur Kariev and Rai Studio Games are the same people, and by that understanding so could be Kut Stupid.

It’s important to note that since their games have been removed, there has been no comment from any of these developers.

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