The developer of a free shooter on Steam threatens influencers if they report wrongly about their game

Operation: Harsh DoorStop is a free tactical shooter on Steam, who as a competitor to First Person Shooters sees himself with a certain claim of realism like Battlefield. The creator’s demands on influencers seem rather unrealistic to many users.

What kind of game is that? Operation: Harsh Doorstop is a free tactical shooter that went to the early access on Steam on February 15, 2023. The idea behind the game is to play a kind of free alternative like Arma, but put it strongly on the community and put a big focus on mods.

For February 28, 2025, the largest update so far is planned to bring numerous features such as vehicles, construction and revival into play. In advance, the creator of the game, who appears under the name Bluedrake42, causes a stir with a warning to Content Creator who discuss the game.

Launch trailer for the early access of the free tactics shooter Operation: Harsh Doorstop

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Self-proclaimed Battlefield competitor threatens with legal problems

What did the developer say? Bluedrake42, which himself has more than a million subscribers on YouTube, said a warning to Content Creator in a post on X:

  • Influencers who have accepted more than $ 10,000 (around 9,645 euros) from competing studios in the past $ 12 months
  • Otherwise “you and I will get legal problems”, says the developer
  • He was tired of watching these influencers how they would put games down that did not allow them to grow up money.
  • The closer the release moves in more detail how exactly this should be done.

    The question of a user, which games he sees as his competition, answers Bluedrake42 with: “Squad, Delta Force, Battlefield, Arma. Every realistic/semi-realistic FPS. “

    The developer also makes it clear that he is very happy to accept criticism, just not from people who, in his opinion, have a financial interest in seeing them fail.

    How should content creators behave? In a video of February 11, 2025, Bluedrake42 explains that he is particularly concerned with content creator who compare his game with another without mentioning that you have a deal with this other game. He therefore suggests formulations such as:

    “Hey, I recently signed a $ 40,000 contract with this other game, so I might be biased. But here are my honest first impressions. ”(Via X)

    If it was the goal of the developer to avoid biased reviews of his game, the campaign should have had the opposite effect so far. On Steam, the reviews of Operation: Harsh Doorstep show a clear rash down: Of 44 reviews that were submitted on February 12, only 2 were positive.

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