Blue Archive Player Won’t Get Rewards After Event Canceled For Breaking Steam Rules

Following observations last week that the Blue Archive PC release could be breaking Steam policies, Nexon has announced that it has terminated a controversial in-game event. The Steam event incentivized players to leave reviews for Blue Archive on Valve’s storefront, which goes against the Steamworks documentation. Alongside the event’s termination, no rewards earned for reaching the goal will be distributed.

In a statement posted to the Steam news section for Blue Archive, Nexon says that “following the launch of the Steam client, we prepared this event and rewards for all Senseis as a way to create a better service together through your valuable feedback. However, during the process of announcing the reward distribution linked to review submissions, we discovered that certain aspects could potentially conflict with platform policies. As a result, we have decided to terminate the event early.”

It continues, “Please understand that, in order to comply with platform policies, the rewards for this event will not be distributed.” Nexon goes on to promise that it will “take even greater care” when planning future events to ensure it is not going against any other platform policies, while striving to “provide a better service” for its players.

Blue Archive was released on Steam last week, where it peaked at over 22,000 concurrent players. Alongside the reward event, it also amassed more than 10,000 Steam reviews, and despite the review event being terminated this number continues to rise. The game maintains a “very positive” overall rating on Steam so far.

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