#Creator of well-liked ‘Cedar Hill’ Venture Zomboid mod bricks upwards of 200,000 saves after a ton of drama – Destructoid

Let me preface this entire shebang by acknowledging that modders do largely thankless, unpaid work so the remainder of us can benefit from the video games we love just a bit bit extra.

With that out of the way in which: Archived in a now locked Reddit thread, the stress of neighborhood calls for and evaluate bombing was sufficient for Cedar Hill mod creator Strive Truthfully to push an replace to their mod, with over 200,000 subscribers on Steam, corrupting the save recordsdata of each participant concerned.

“I’ve not often acquired any help from the neighborhood,” Strive Truthfully mentioned on the now-deleted Steam Workshop web page of their mod. “This mod is my creation, and I can do no matter I need with it. Sharing it doesn’t entitle anybody to sit down again and throw unsolicited opinions.” See the total assertion beneath:

Together with feeling burned by a couple of neighborhood members’ overzealous calls for and threats, Strive Truthfully additionally mentions that a number of people started review-bombing their different mods. What initially started as a easy delisting of the mod on account of a need to maneuver on shortly turned bitter, with gamers who hadn’t but been capable of obtain the mod hurtling threats on the creator.

Strive Truthfully will definitely be banned by Steam for this outburst, per the Subscriber Settlement:

“…you agree that any Subscriber receiving distribution of your Workshop Contribution may have the identical rights to make use of your Workshop Contribution (and can be topic to the identical restrictions) as are set out on this Settlement for every other Subscriptions.”

Fortunately, should you had been one of many gamers affected, there could also be an answer. A mirror of the mod remains to be accessible for obtain from Sky Mods. I want everybody affected a really “your save masses correctly and you may benefit from the recreation once more.”