Share. PayPal has closed the publisher's account. PayPal has closed the publisher's account.

Controversial school shooting game, Active Shooter, can no longer be purchased online as PayPal has shut down the account of publisher Acid Software.

Earlier this week, Acid Software tweeted it was experiencing a "few issues" with PayPal which were preventing Active Shooter from being purchased. A follow-up tweet announced the publisher has disabled purchases of all their titles until it can "figure out the whole situation with PayPal."

In a statement made the following day (via Associated Press), PayPal confirmed it has closed the account of Acid Software and condemned the title for promoting violence.

“PayPal has a longstanding, well-defined and consistently enforced Acceptable Use Policy," a PayPal spokesperson explained. "Regardless of the individual or organisation in question, we work to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments for activities that promote violence.”

Active Shooter sees you playing as either a shooter, SWAT team member, or a civilian, in a school shooting. The game and its publisher Acid Software were removed from Steam and Indiegogo shortly after release.

Its removal from Steam was due to poor conduct from the developer, according to Valve, rather than its content. Valve's policy on what should, and shouldn't, be allowed on Steam has since been called into question – resulting in the company claiming they will "allow everything onto the Steam Store."

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