[2][6] Active Shooter attracted controversy after its Steam store page was published in May 2018,[7] with parents of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victims campaigning against the game online.

[4] On May 29, it emerged that Revived Games and Acid Publishing Group were the trading names of Anton Makarevskiy[1] and Ata Berdyev, the latter of which had previously been removed from Steam by Valve for copyright infringement after the publication of a Rick and Morty parody called Piccled Ricc.

A spokesperson told Matthew Gault of Motherboard that Berdyev is "a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation".

[3] In a subsequent blog post, Acid Software argued that Steam had carried other video games with a focus on violence and murder, giving examples of Hatred, Postal, and Carmageddon.

[12] Later in June 2018, PayPal closed the account of Acid Software, citing that the game violated their Acceptable Use Policy.