This is actually the second time Dream Games has launched Operation Caucasus on Steam. The first time, it appeared as a full-priced game in late March for $9, despite the game proclaiming it was actually a “demo.”

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A few days after launch, according to Steam DB, the price dropped to $1. The game was mysteriously removed from Steam; selling a demo as a full game is not exactly truth in advertising, whether it’s for $9 or $1.

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In a post on Steam, the developers claimed this was all an accident.

“There was a button in Steam page,” the post reads. “It was ‘Share full project’. And our editor’ve [sic] pressed it. He said, ‘i tried to cancel, but it shared on Steam.(9.99$). After a few days we’ve set the demo price 0.99$ because, we couldn’t hide it. And, you know, it was our first experience. We were newly acquainting with Steam, and we saw there is a group for developers on Steam. We’ve wrote a message to them. And they helped us.”

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Dream Games then announced the project had been postponed because “development is a lot of hard work.” It was now coming in early May. The official launch came a little later, on May 26, with the game adopting a seasonal model. That’s when Dream Games started giving away keys.

None of this explains why a developer would tell a player to “f**k off,” let alone for the crime of supporting LGBT rights through a Facebook picture.

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2016! What a year for video games.

UPDATE: The company has since apologized via Facebook:

“At Dream Games we feel very sorry about current situation,” the company said in a statement. “We have fired both editor and managing director from team. We will make sure situations like this will never happen in the future.”