'We have a few rules of conduct that have been in effect for the better part of a decade where racial slurs, among other things, are not allowed. Paradox COO Susana Meza Graham echoed the clarification in issuing what she said was Paradox's final comment on the matter through Twitter. We decided it was a step too far and removed it.' 'Then the creator of the mod decided to update the description of the mod to promote an 'agenda' not related to computer games at all, and this was being clearly displayed on our product page.

'We saw the mod, thought it wasn't in very good taste, but let it remain,' Paradoxal_Bear clarified. Over on Reddit, though, Paradox Community Manager Paradoxal_Bear said that the issue wasn't the in-game effect of the mod itself but 'several disturbing elements in its public description which we do not want to have clearly displayed on our product page.' He didn't go into detail on what elements were 'disturbing,' but screengrabs of that description from before it was removed suggest that the message 'no 'multiculturalism' here!' could have been the most problematic phrase. The spokesperson also encouraged users to continue flagging 'inappropriate mods' on the game's Steam Workshop page (which is controlled by Paradox and appears alongside the game's Steam sales page). The 'European Phenotype and Names Only (White Humans)' mod delivered just what it claimed, changing the portraits and names for the game's non-white human characters to read as 'European white.' After removing the mod from Steam Workshop, a Paradox spokesperson told Eurogamer that while the company 'embrace the idea that players mod the game to best represent how they want to play, we do not however wish to enable discriminatory practices.' The claimed reasoning behind that decision, and the reaction to it, are raising a lot of discussion over what is and isn't 'appropriate' content for a game's modding community. Further Reading How Stellaris fails to solve strategy gaming’s “bad luck” problem Stellaris publisher Paradox has removed a Steam Workshop mod that made all in-game humans white Europeans, altering the game's standard diverse population of planetary citizenry.

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