How is valve censoring devs?

引用自 Vaulty：

How is valve censoring devs?

By not telling every vendor/business partner with their own rules and terms of service to piss off, apparently.

But frankly Valve's target demographic isn't the clueless reactionary bad customer without any skin in the game.

... is that still about the purge of rape/incest "games" or is there some new outrage?

引用自 ReBoot：

... is that still about the purge of rape/incest "games" or is there some new outrage?

Lmao. Things have gone beyond that now. We're delving into rated M territory now. The purge has been expanded upon.

引用自 ManOfCulture：

引用自 ReBoot：

... is that still about the purge of rape/incest "games" or is there some new outrage?

Lmao. Things have gone beyond that now. We're delving into rated M territory now. The purge has been expanded upon.

What game?

There are a handful of games that Valve has not allowed on the store.

引用自 Etcha Sketchy：

Am I the only one unwilling to even consider purchasing a Steam dedicated piece of hardware knowing Valve is still actively censoring games and game creators?

I'm sure your not the only one, but your definitely in a very very very small group of people who care about obscure games that were denied to be released on steam because they often sexualize children.

引用自 eram：

引用自 ManOfCulture：

Lmao. Things have gone beyond that now. We're delving into rated M territory now. The purge has been expanded upon.

yet no one can even name 1 game

Red Pine Lake. (We had to fight for that one to come back.)

LoverR Kiss: Endless Memories. A harmless highschool dating sim where you play as a highschool boy. Delisted.

There's two already.

引用自 ManOfCulture：

引用自 eram：

yet no one can even name 1 game

Red Pine Lake. (We had to fight for that one to come back.)

LoverR Kiss: Endless Memories. A harmless highschool dating sim where you play as a highschool boy. Delisted.

There's two already.

Red Pine Lake was revealed to have had the developer lie about what the rejection reason was for.

引用自 ManOfCulture：

引用自 eram：

yet no one can even name 1 game

Red Pine Lake. (We had to fight for that one to come back.)

LoverR Kiss: Endless Memories. A harmless highschool dating sim where you play as a highschool boy. Delisted.

There's two already.

I know LoverR Kiss has fanservice involving middle schoolers. While it might not show anything graphic Valve decided not to touch it and can't blame them for not wanting it.

引用自 Etcha Sketchy：

Am I the only one unwilling to even consider purchasing a Steam dedicated piece of hardware knowing Valve is still actively censoring games and game creators?

Steam hardware is open, so even if Valve blocks certain games from coming to Steam, you can still get those games from elsewhere and play them on Steam hardware if you wish.

引用自 Etcha Sketchy：

I hate windows with a passion, but I can't get myself to support the censoring of content just to game without dealing with broken ass windows crashes, blue screens, etc. Am I just being too sensitive about this? Or does anyone else think this is kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

I get it. Valve's inconsistency and opaqueness when it comes to what is and isn't allowed on Steam can be frustrating. Some of those blocked games aren't even adult titles. They're ESRB rated and coming to the Switch for God's sake. In spite of that though, I still think that Steam is the best, most stable, and most reliable place to buy and play PC games. If anything, it's just reason to branch out with where you buy games a bit more. I find myself shopping on GOG and itch.io more than I used to, and since Steam hardware is open and free (as in 'freedom'), I can run whatever games I want, from wherever I want.

引用自 ManOfCulture：

引用自 eram：

yet no one can even name 1 game

Red Pine Lake. (We had to fight for that one to come back.)

LoverR Kiss: Endless Memories. A harmless highschool dating sim where you play as a highschool boy. Delisted.

There's two already.

Ah yes red pine lake

Developer: Submits the store picture
Valve: Change the picture or mark your game as NSFW (Steam store has to be PG-13 by default)
Developer: Starts crying
Valve: Reverses their choice

Big bad censorship, totally end of the world, especially when the game is back in store


Lover's kiss?
Dev said that "due to various circumstances, it has become difficult to release the game on Steam."
So no official reason shared, if it was unfair censorship im sure they would've voiced their opinion

引用自 ReBoot：

... is that still about the purge of rape/incest "games" or is there some new outrage?

Well there was that horror game that Valve refused entry because of showing woman's ass while they were wearing one piece swimsuit in one of the promotional materials was too explicit for Steam according to who ever reviewed the game on Valve. It was allowed on Steam after public outrage.

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/4129440/Aftermath_Z_Red_Pine_Lake/

There have been other psychological horror games (like VILE: Exhumed among others) that have been banned previously but Red Pine Lake was the most arbitrary banning so far. There are literally thousands of games with women in bikini/one piece swimsuits on Steam. The image wasn't explicit at all and games like Agony Unrated and Succubus are completely fine:

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/879420/Agony_UNRATED/

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/985830/SUCCUBUS/

if the price is right

it is on my shelf

Came for a thread about Steam censoring hardware. Was disappointed.

引用自 Etcha Sketchy：

I hate windows with a passion,`but I can't get myself to support the censoring of content just to game without dealing with broken ass windows crashes, blue screens, etc.

You are aware that you do not need to buy Hardware from valve to install Linux on your PC?