Brothers.....
something I've noticed alot lately is a alarming amount of petitions showing up in game forums to pull certain games from Steam for various reasons. I seem to recall the shocking amount of "official" requests only seem to have started after the "War Z" fiasco.
For those that don't know, a shady development company named Hammerpoint Interactive decided to cash in on the "Day Z" craze (and name) by rushing out a MMO style zombie game and then released a broken buggy pre-alpha product that contained almost NONE of the features listed on the store page. Result was noble gamers took to the Steam forums and demanded that the obvious scam product be removed for legal and ethical reasons. The strongest showing of this plea for removal came in the form of a petition. The game was then subsequently removed and a resounding cheer of victory over the tyranny of seedy game development was heard throughout the gaming world.

Then.....something strange happened.

It seemed that on almost every game forum some jackass would start a petition thread that would then get laughed off , trolled, or deleted my mods.
But some didn't.
Some started gaining alot of momentum, and apparently the criteria for certain games removal became less and less of justifications and more of just bad reviews, or people feeling ripped off because a game wasn't that good , or they did no research into the finished product to see what they were buying.
Now I agree that if a case like "war Z" happens again, where the devs lie about a games components and features, mislead with all marketing techniques, and generally commit what the law describes as fraud, then a petition is warranted and the games removal is justified.
But I saw a massive gathering around a petition to remove "Aliens : Colonial Marines" today and I was shocked. I love this game and can't find a bloody thing wrong with it. Steam has taken note of this petition because apparently some components were outsourced to 3rd party devs without credit on the storepage, and also because the game looks different from a bit of E3 footage a year ago......Really people?
I caught myself defending against a petition to remove "Ice Age 4" the other night based soley on the argument against the fact that hardcore gamers felt that preschool video games are "shovelware" and not worthy of the integrity of Steams service and the age demograph that it already targets. That was it. Game worked fine and nothing was wrong with it. I mean sure it's probably a horrible game, but thats just subjective opinion and not worth an actual petition for removal. (although the forum mods got involved)

I guess my whole observation since the War Z fiasco is that the petition created in that case, while completely justified , created a horrible precedent that empowered gamers with a sense that they had a new form of control over a games exsistance on the service.
It's getting ridiculous from where I'm standing, and I want to know what you guys feel about it.

Please agree or disagree but just leave a comment because I'm trying to get a feel for what people think about this. No judging I just want to know how you feel about game petitions for the good or bad, and maybe we can get a good dialogue or debate going here.

Any trolling here and i'll delete your post and get the banhammer out.