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.
