A wave of removals hit the Steam Store, recently, as Valve revealed certain types of video games would no longer be sold on their storefront. A glance at SteamDB shows that the affected games are of a very particular variety featuring adult content. Valve issued a statement on the delistings, explaining that they were due to potential violations with "payment processors", and in order to continue taking payments for non-adult content, they would be removing those title that do not meet "rules and standards" put forth by companies such as Mastercard, PayPal, etc.

We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks. As a result, we are retiring those games from being sold on the Steam Store, because loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles and game content on Steam.

We are directly notifying developers of these games, and issuing app credits should they have another game they’d like to distribute on Steam in the future.

While all of the affected games are of a controversial variety, it has unnerved some, as the newly implemented "rules and standards" that led to the delisting of these titles is vague.

Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

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[Xzi]

A worrying precedent to set for sure. It wouldn't affect me personally even if they removed all porn games from Steam, but if payment processors are willing to cave on this issue, they're probably going to cave on others as well. Hypocritical right-wing loonies drumming up faux outrage over cartoons, while pushing for laws and policies that protect rapists and pedophiles IRL.

 

[Skv0ra]

"Collective Shout is a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls.

Collective Shout is for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture and the way its messages have become entrenched in mainstream society, presenting distorted and dishonest ideas about women and girls, sexuality and relationships.

Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate’s pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins. "

Decades? Have you no sense of history? Look up that term "puritans" you used. They've been trying to force their degenerate morality on everyone else for a very long time, often with the accompanying threat of torture and/or death. Want to talk censorship? I'll get banned here if I so much as mention the specific cult that has been doing this and more for over a millennia and question their right to continue to exist, but as a giant hint: they are the largest organized pedophile ring in human history and operate with impunity in all Western countries.

I have no issue with Valve or the payment processors. They are private companies and can "censor" "free speech" all they want because it is perfectly legal for them to do so, as it should be. But the collective cult scum for the last several thousand years that have been systematically going after the rest of us (and each other) and who now say things like "politically correct" or "woke" every time we stop them? Fck all of them. Has nothing whatsoever to do with the payment processors or companies like Valve. If you don't like their decisions, your remedy -- your only remedy -- is to boycott them.
As if that ever works.

^^^ absolutely THIS. Main issue in question are pedo porno games, right? The scope needs to stay so. There is LOTS of media that really doesn't add anything of value to the culture and it going instinct is right course. Morals ought to decide this one easily.

 

[mspy]

How many payment processors there are?
Surely there is one who doesn't care about ''adult games''?

Maybe it's time for crypto payments to shine.

 

[Ericzander]

R.I.P to Alien John 2.

 

[Captain-Z]

But we are. We are talking about them.



No you didn't.

Which is why I pointed out the bigotry.

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Okay, then I am using the right word. They are indeed acting like Puritan Christians, so I will call them that

And your comment was bigoted so I called it that.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Only on the internet would you find people saying rape and sexual violence games should be kept up.

Thank god someone did something - shame it took payment providers to actually do the work.

This is about defending women and stopping the escalating violence against them.

 

[NitroShell]

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A wave of removals hit the Steam Store, recently, as Valve revealed certain types of video games would no longer be sold on their storefront. A glance at SteamDB shows that the affected games are of a very particular variety featuring adult content. Valve issued a statement on the delistings, explaining that they were due to potential violations with "payment processors", and in order to continue taking payments for non-adult content, they would be removing those title that do not meet "rules and standards" put forth by companies such as Mastercard, PayPal, etc.



While all of the affected games are of a controversial variety, it has unnerved some, as the newly implemented "rules and standards" that led to the delisting of these titles is vague.



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Finally! No more slop!

 

[kingaz]

Which is why I pointed out the bigotry.

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And your comment was bigoted so I called it that.

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a bigot!" A guide to Internet discourse.

Only on the internet would you find people saying rape and sexual violence games should be kept up.

Thank god someone did something - shame it took payment providers to actually do the work.

This is about defending women and stopping the escalating violence against them.

I'm skeptical that this is actually protecting anyone, but regardless, I do not shed a single tear for weird slop being excised from a particular storefront.

If these types of "games" are the beginning and end of it, no complaints. If they convince payment processors to forbid sale of Grand Theft Auto (as they campaigned to do and successfully got some stores to pull the title), or other games that offend their particular sensibilities but are otherwise not at issue? I have concerns.

 

[yankii]

Only on the internet would you find people saying rape and sexual violence games should be kept up.

Thank god someone did something - shame it took payment providers to actually do the work.

This is about defending women and stopping the escalating violence against them.

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I hope they get anime banned too

 

[LanHikariDS]

1. The things I mentioned are pretty much illegal in a lot of places in the context in which they are presented, even if fictional.

Murder is illegal in most places as well, therefore Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Wolfenstein should all be delisted from Steam as well

 

[Xzi]

If these types of "games" are the beginning and end of it, no complaints. If they convince payment processors to forbid sale of Grand Theft Auto (as they campaigned to do and successfully got some stores to pull the title), or other games that offend their particular sensibilities but are otherwise not at issue? I have concerns.

Exactly. If we're gonna start applying real-world morality to works of fiction, why stop there? Assault and murder are wrong, so any game with any sort of violence in it has to go.

 

[Moe87]

It should same for shovelware games.

Members in this forum is going to talk about whichever games are shovelware.

 

[yankii]

It should same for shovelware games.

Members in this forum is going to talk about whichever games are shovelware.

Honestly, anything not made by Nintendo = shovelware, but people aren't ready for that conversation.

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[HarveyHouston]

"We don't want your money. Please don't buy these games we think suck." Wait, what?

 

[Xzi]

Honestly, anything not made by Nintendo = shovelware, but people aren't ready for that conversation.

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Not only does Nintendo release about 50% shovelware, they charge full price for it too. Scarlet/Violet, ARMS, Princess Peach Showtime, the list goes on and on. They haven't released a good Mario sports game since Gamecube, or a good sports game in general since Wii. Bananza is a certified banger along with the other 50% of Nintendo releases, but if not for Retro Studios and FromSoft padding out the year one lineup, I wouldn't have bothered buying a Switch 2 at all.

 

[baylen]

who is ur pfp

Actually, it means "whatever games we feel like." They pick the most heinous examples first in a "won't somebody think of the children" move so they get away with it. They then get to say anyone saying its wrong to do that is defending heinous content and are horrible people, then once they've gotten away with it, they have precedent to take down whatever they want. Games with different political views? Games with homosexuals or any kind of lgbt content? Games with any kind of violence? All on the table because they already got away with it once.

 

[yankii]

Not only does Nintendo release about 50% shovelware, they charge full price for it too. Scarlet/Violet, ARMS, Princess Peach Showtime, the list goes on and on. They haven't released a good Mario sports game since Gamecube, or a good sports game in general since Wii. Bananza is a certified banger along with the other 50% of Nintendo releases, but if not for Retro Studios and FromSoft padding out the year one lineup, I wouldn't have bothered buying a Switch 2 at all.

This is the part where I come to Miyamoto's defense, but like I said

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[ftjiso]

PayPal has some problems for a while. For example: I always used to topup using iDEAL (a Dutch secure payment method) That isn't working for months.

i mean i've been using paypal on steam summer sale. when this news hit, i cant seem to buy sekiro, ai the somnium files or pacman world on steam this week. i don't think it's a coincidence but i don't know

 

[KingVamp]

This is about defending women and stopping the escalating violence against them.

No, no, he has a point. It is much easier to just ban pixels than actually protect anyone.

Not only does Nintendo release about 50% shovelware, they charge full price for it too. Scarlet/Violet, ARMS, Princess Peach Showtime, the list goes on and on. They haven't released a good Mario sports game since Gamecube, or a good sports game in general since Wii. Bananza is a certified banger along with the other 50% of Nintendo releases, but if not for Retro Studios and FromSoft padding out the year one lineup, I wouldn't have bothered buying a Switch 2 at all.

While I agree with the unfortunate status of the sport games (in general actually, not just Nintendo) and you could argue the prices of some of those games, but I think saying all those other games are shovelware is a bit much.

 

[Xzi]

While I agree with the unfortunate status of the sport games (in general actually, not just Nintendo) and you could argue the prices of some of those games, but I think saying all those other games are shovelware is a bit much.

It might be more like 60/40, and we can argue on the specific titles, but overall my point still stands. Even as a Nintendo die-hard in the SNES versus Genesis days I wouldn't have agreed with Nintendo games being the only good ones, the console wouldn't have been half as well-regarded without games like Mega Man X and Turtles in Time.

Hell, Nintendo doesn't even dabble in certain genres, and to call everything in those genres shovelware is just plain ignorant. It's a mindset that comes from being unwilling to explore anything outside of one's own tiny comfort zone.