Thorny Times remake by Belarusians removed from Steam due to developer conflict

Problems have arisen with the return of Thorny Times. Valve had to take action after a complaint.

Recently, the return of Thorny Times was announced. The game received a Steam page, but it was subsequently removed.

The reason was a conflict between the developers: the game is being developed by Nikolay Armonik (the author of the original “Discord Times”), while former employee Alexander Dergay filed a complaint with Valve because the name “Aterdux Entertainment” is being used.

Nikolay Armonik commented on the situation on Discord (invite — https://discord.com/invite/wmMksmWFDM):

“...The game will still be distributed under the name Aterdux :)

Even though Sasha might own a Steam account named Aterdux, he cannot create and release new games because he is not a game developer. Such a "dog in the manger".

Or maybe he thought we would contact him and offer him money to withdraw the strike… but he miscalculated there”.

And then added: “...Steam also deleted my avatar and profile name (all because of complaints, naturally). And domain name services also wrote to me saying a complaint was filed claiming that I am a Russian citizen, and they do not work with Russia and are asking me to urgently take away all my domains. That is, someone has really taken this seriously. Who could that be?...”.

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Cover author: Aterdux Entertainment. Image source: store.steampowered.com