Bethesda Yanks ‘Doom’ Mod About Killing Margaret Thatcher From Storefront

Heaven mislaid an angel. Hell mislaid a politician. Bethesda’s caller mod database for Doom & Doom II mislaid an iconic mod. Bethesda has pulled Thatcher’s Techbase, a Doom mod that sends players to hellhole to combat Margaret Thatcher, from the mod store for its recently released Doom & Doom II ports.

Mods person been portion of the Doom acquisition since its merchandise successful 1993. Enthusiasts and gamers mixed and remixed Doom and Doom II, created their ain maps, uploaded their ain creation assets, and re-designed the game. In August Bethesda released an enhanced variation of Doom I & Doom II that included entree to a user-curated database afloat of mods.

What was erstwhile lone disposable to PC players looking to brave the depths of WASD-sharing sites was present disposable to all. For the archetypal time, players moving Doom & Doom II connected a Nintendo Switch oregon PlayStation 5 could bask MyHouse.WAD oregon immoderate fig of iconic mods.

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— Jim (@letshugbro) August 30, 2024

Thatcher’s Techbase was 1 specified mod. The comedic overhaul of Doom includes 5 caller levels, a soundtrack from Paradise Killer composer Barry Topping, and deceased PM Margaret Thatcher vamping arsenic a Baron of Hell. But now, according to the mod’s creator Jim Purvis, Bethesda has pulled Thatcher’s Techbase from its listings due to the fact that of politics.

“Bad quality everyone,” Purvis said successful a station connected X alongside a screenshot from a Bethesda enactment ticket. “The Creation Thatcher’s Techbase has been reported from real-world authorities and has been removed. As a result, this relationship is receiving an authoritative acquisition notice.”

It’s determination successful achromatic and achromatic nether the mod guidelines connected the Bethesda website: “Do not upload mods that diagnostic existent satellite religious/ governmental content.”

Still, the mod database is afloat of different creations—some of them past and well-known among the Doom community—that interruption this and different rules connected the list. “Do not upload mods utilizing third-party contented (licensed properties, contented from different games, and different trademarked properties).”

The 2nd mod connected the database is Ultimate Simpsons Doom, a full conversion mod that replaces overmuch of the game’s creation and dependable assets with worldly from the long-running animated sitcom. There are hundreds of different remixes and mashups similar this, including mods that usage Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Bethesda isn’t precisely moving a choky vessel implicit determination and, judging by a batch of the worldly I saw, it’s lone taking things down if idiosyncratic reports them. Hell, Thatcher’s Techbase is inactive determination if you scroll acold enough. It adjacent has a representation of socialist British MP Jeremy Corbyn posing adjacent to an arcade mentation of the game.

©Image via ‘Doom & Doom II Enhanced Edition’

Thatcher’s Techbase won’t cease to beryllium due to the fact that Bethesda removed 1 iteration from its store. The Doom mod country is ancient, robust, and seeded crossed the internet. Anyone who wants the game, oregon immoderate fig of different arguable Doom mods, tin easy find and instal it.

But Bethesda removing the mod astatine each is simply a reminder of what we commercialized erstwhile corporations instrumentality implicit the organisation of worldly similar mods. It’s easier than ever to acquisition the champion of what the Doom assemblage has been offering for decades… arsenic agelong arsenic Bethesda likes what’s connected offer.

Bethesda did not respond to Gizmodo’s petition for comment.