News doing the rounds at the moment, is that Valve seem to be tightening their rules concerning games with sexual content.
Here's developer Lupiesoft as an example, who made Mutiny!!, a visual novel with puzzle mini-games, ship combat and it even supports Linux:
We've just received some troubling news today that @steam_games has decided to pull down our titled "Mutiny!!" within 2 weeks for 'reports of pornographic content'. Now those of you who know @Lupiesoft know that we don't put that on Steam, or advertise that content on Steam.
— Lupiesoft (@Lupiesoft) May 18, 2018
The developer continued on from this tweet, to mention that their publisher even met with Valve previously and apparently they didn't have a problem then.
Here's another example from developer HuniePot, who made HuniePop which also supports Linux:
- IMPORTANT NOTICE -
— HunieDev (@HuniePotDev) May 17, 2018
I've received an e-mail from Valve stating that HuniePop violates the rules & guidelines for pornographic content on Steam and will be removed from the store unless the game is updated to remove said content.
Honestly, I don't really get what Valve's doing. There must be some ridiculous business-type decision behind it. Perhaps they think such games are putting off some bigger publishers, as if somehow they think it makes Steam look less attractive? I do always find this odd, that content of a sexual nature is so often frowned upon, when games where you brutally murder people for 90% of the gameplay are often promoted by Valve.
Worth point out, that itch.io is a rather open store, as I understand it developers themselves set the amount they wish to give to itch out of their sales (even if it's nothing) and they even have an open source client which is due a big upgrade soon. As much as I personally like Steam (it is my favourite store), I do wish more games were available on itch.io. Competition is healthy, the bigger players need it to keep them on the straight and narrow and we all know this.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
then some nudity is so bad. If i had children, i think violence would be much much worse than some soft nudity.
but meh we are living in a weird world i guess.
Quoting: XpanderI don't really get it. its all wrong way imo. Violence seems to be fine, blood, gore, killing.Sex has been involved in all deaths that have happened. Violence has only been involved in some deaths that have happened. Therefore sex is more dangerous than violence and should thus be kept out of sight and out of mind as much as possible.
then some nudity is so bad. If i had children, i think violence would be much much worse than some soft nudity.
but meh we are living in a weird world i guess.
(The joke is that sex is required for people to exist and therefore for there to be death there has to have been sex.)
Quoting: XpanderI don't really get it. its all wrong way imo. Violence seems to be fine, blood, gore, killing.
Not in Germany. By the way: Thanks again for gifting me L4D2. ;)
Do you remember? L4D2 (uncut) and some other Games like Dying Light are Court seized in Germany until today. I can't buy them normally on Steam. Also I can't buy a Game like Attentat 1942 in Germany without tricks.
Every country has maybe its idiosyncrasies. And the censors are pursuing their targets with an uncanny energy when it comes to computer games. At some point you just don't feel like it anymore and take it. After all, we all have other things to do in life. But it is a very worrying development.
Last edited by 1xok on 19 May 2018 at 9:19 am UTC
Quoting: SamsaiI'm usually too dumb for jokes, but properly explained ones always make me roflmao so hard!Quoting: XpanderI don't really get it. its all wrong way imo. Violence seems to be fine, blood, gore, killing.Sex has been involved in all deaths that have happened. Violence has only been involved in some deaths that have happened. Therefore sex is more dangerous than violence and should thus be kept out of sight and out of mind as much as possible.
then some nudity is so bad. If i had children, i think violence would be much much worse than some soft nudity.
but meh we are living in a weird world i guess.
(The joke is that sex is required for people to exist and therefore for there to be death there has to have been sex.)
Quoting: TheRiddickSEX!?¿ THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!I believe that's exactly what they did and was so horrified in the process that they banned everything that might look as a child.
On a positive note, the overpuritanic times are always followed by sexual revolutions. The pendulum always swings back, it's a universal law.
Quoting: WarpigIt's because pedophilia is a huge problem right now...world wide. Did you see the news about the bishops in Chile? They all resigned over sex abuse. Maybe your not paying attention...There is an elite pedophilia ring that traffics children for sex and then engages in organ harvesting. It's a dark, dark time...and we better wake up. I support valves decision to eliminate games that depict underage girls or boys engaging in sexual acts. Maybe I'm old fashioned. Witcher and GTA do not have what look to be underage girls having sexual relations...IMO.Not sure if you are serious or not? How is pedophilia any bigger problem right now than it was like 20 years ago? And how are Valves actions going to solve any of that?
Quoting: WarpigIt's because pedophilia is a huge problem right now...world wide. Did you see the news about the bishops in Chile? They all resigned over sex abuse. Maybe your not paying attention...There is an elite pedophilia ring that traffics children for sex and then engages in organ harvesting.And I'm sure they all got the idea from playing HuniePop.
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