Probably the most in style new video games on Twitch can not be bought on Steam. It isn’t recognized why Solely Up was delisted, nevertheless it occurred after an artist accused the game of utilizing a 3D mannequin they made with out permission, resulting in hypothesis that Valve gave it the boot over copyright infringement considerations.
Shortly after the delisting, developer SCKRgames mentioned on Twitter that Solely Up will return to Steam “quickly.”
Solely Up takes after video games like Getting Over It and QWOP, and extra instantly the Counter-Strike impediment course map-making custom. It is a type of finicky platforming video games that retains the participant in fixed suspense and ends repeatedly in catastrophic failure, which makes it enjoyable to look at. Though Solely Up’s Steam evaluations have been “Combined” earlier than its retailer web page was zapped, it stays some of the watched video games on Twitch, with over 85,000 viewers on the time of writing.
A day earlier than Solely Up’s retailer web page disappeared from Steam, digital artist Aboulicious accused it of utilizing a 3D mannequin that they made. “The at present very profitable game #OnlyUp has at the least one asset from me,” tweeted the artist (machine translated from German) alongside a picture of their mannequin and one among Solely Up’s promotional screenshots, wherein the mannequin clearly seems.
The 3D mannequin, which depicts an anime-style character holding a blanket within the wind, is free to download on Sketchfab, however Aboulicious authorized it for non-commercial use solely below the Artistic Commons licensing construction. Solely Up is decidedly business: It price $10 at full value, and its Twitch reputation despatched it to the Steam prime sellers checklist. It had been discounted for the Steam Summer time Sale earlier than it was pulled.
Developer SCKRgames reportedly eliminated Aboulicious’ mannequin in an Solely Up update yesterday. It is attainable different unlicensed artwork or music resulted within the takedown, however the trigger hasn’t been confirmed by Valve or the developer but.
I’ve seen hypothesis that Solely Up’s in-game NFT promotion—Andy mentioned extra about that in his article from final week—might have been the trigger, however Steam’s guidelines do not forbid the point out of NFTs, solely video games that “problem or enable change of cryptocurrencies or NFTs,” in order that’s unlikely to be the perpetrator.
PC Gamer has requested Valve and the builders of Solely Up why the game has been delisted. We’ll update this story if we hear extra.
Der Second, wenn @venom_virtual einem erzählt, dass das aktuell sehr erfolgreiche Spiel #OnlyUp , mindestens ein Asset von mir #gerippt hat.Tja… was soll ich dazu sagen… macht euch selbst ein Bild davon.#steal #3d #ripped #geklaut #noComercialUse #sprachlos pic.twitter.com/VDBwf8hX0wJune 29, 2023
