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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[Deleted member 753700]

did you just not finish the sentence?

It’s America. No there wouldn’t be an equivalent. Land of the entitled.

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So horrifying to realise the people in this thread are in society and see woman as objects. It’s time like this you realise why men are lonely and deserve to be. Zero regard for woman or their safety.

All about their porn and being right. Least we know they won’t be meeting anyone soon.

 

[Xzi]

It’s America. No there wouldn’t be an equivalent. Land of the entitled.

It took two seconds to Google it. North-East England has almost double the reported incidences of domestic violence relative to the rest of the nation, and I'd bet my bottom dollar that applies to rape and incest too. These are problems that have been around as long as humanity has, they didn't suddenly appear after the first porno magazine or nude anime girl was published.

So horrifying to realise the people in this thread are in society and see woman as objects.

Support for the evangelical church is support for objectification of women. Maybe next time you'll do a little more research before siding with an organization you know nothing about.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

It took two seconds to Google it. North-East England has almost double the reported incidences of domestic violence relative to the rest of the nation, and I'd bet my bottom dollar that applies to rape and incest too. These are problems that have been around as long as humanity has, they didn't suddenly appear after the first porno magazine or nude anime girl was published.

I’m not English. You are so entitled to be right it’s terrifying.

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Support for the evangelical church is support for objectification of women. Maybe next time you'll do a littlemore research before siding with an organization you know nothing about.

Ah silly American. So simple.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

so many incels here - baffling they will defend the rape and incest games…

So many people want to censorhip pixel games like postal,blasphemous,fear&hunger series,sf6,diablo,GTA games,hatred,duke nukem,doom games,mary skelter games,dungeon travelers and fate stay night games etc

Careful your wish.Because those games will dissapear because some puritan people cant watch people have fun with nsfw,religious,gore and fighting games.

For the record collective shout have their brains severe damage. Prefers to save people in fictional games instead for real humans than have real cases like the epstein files.

 

[kingaz]

It’s called empathy g - imagine being a woman knowing men are consuming games about murdering and raping them. Even if it is shit quality. It’s scary. You don’t know this fear as you are a man. Consider the fact it’s not even strangers. Incest too. It could be any man in your life. This is a real fear for many woman. Maybe if you spoke to woman you would understand this.

Before we get further sidetracked by these histrionics, know that there are much more pressing concerns regarding gender and sexual violence than the impure thoughts you imagine random strangers might be thinking.

Seriously, this reads like someone LARPing a caricature of a feminist activist.

They don’t have rape in GTA?

Tell that to Collective Shout, they're the ones campaigning against its distribution.

This is what you're not getting. No one gives a crap about the games that have been banned. We're leery of what they might try to ban next. If they stop with these games/these types of games? Fantastic. No complaints.

 

[Xzi]

I’m not English.

I don't see what the point is in trying to hide your country of origin/residence, but it's irrelevant. The point is that there are real victims out there that you could be helping instead of virtue signalling over fictional content. You're not gonna fix humanity through censorship, and you're far from the first person foolish enough to try.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

So many people want to censorhip pixel games like postal,blasphemous,fear&hunger series,sf6,diablo,GTA games,hatred,duke nukem,doom games,mary skelter games,dungeon travelers and fate stay night games etc

Careful your wish.Because those games will dissapear because some puritan people cant watch people have fun with nsfw,religious,gore and fighting games.

Except those games haven’t been banned. They just want their access to their sick porn. When that other stuff happens we can talk.

And normalising war and gore is not normal for the human brain. Don’t get me started on war games paid for by the US ARMY… Video games are propaganda. Like tf guns aren’t cool but games make them seem that way. They are horrific and cause nothing but suffering. Not that I don’t enjoy these games but the damage / change in human psyche is there for sure.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

Except those games haven’t been banned. They just want their access to their sick porn. When that other stuff happens we can talk.

And normalising war and gore is not normal for the human brain. Don’t get me started on war games paid for by the US ARMY… Video games are propaganda. Like tf guns aren’t cool but games make them seem that way. They are horrific and cause nothing but suffering…

Not now, but will be banned soon.

You are giving much power to collective shout. First they will be eat your hand ,in the future will be eat the whole arm.You dont give too much power to any organization to do censorphip.Never allow it.

For the gore,i play many survival horror games for many years so im psychotic and want to kill people right now?

I disagree with you utterly broken stance.

 

[Xzi]

And normalising war and gore is not normal for the human brain.

So then let's prosecute Putin and Netanyahu for trying to normalize them. A properly-functioning human brain has no problem separating fictional violence from real-world violence, and I'm all for funding mental health services to help those who can't.

Video games are propaganda

Ah there it is, the mask off moment. Nobody on a video game-centric site is gonna side with you after an ignorant blanket statement like that. There are so, SO many games with an anti-war, anti-capitalist, or anti-authoritarian message.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Not now, but will be banned soon.

You are giving much power to collective shout. First they will be eat your hand ,in the future will be eat the whole arm.You dont give too much power to any organization to do censorphip.Never allow it.

For the gore,i play many survival horror games for many years so im psychotic and want to kill people right now?

I disagree with you utterly broken stance.

You lack the understanding of the bigger picture. Society shouldn’t normalise war or gore. I used to think like you but I realise now more. I see the failures of capitalism to protect people and only seek profit. Sorry to hear about your mental issues.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

You lack the understanding of the bigger picture. Society shouldn’t normalise war or gore. I used to think like you but I realise now more. I see the failures of capitalism to protect people and only seek profit. Sorry to hear about your mental issues.

Like i said collective shout and the people that support them need go to mental health institution.You cant separate a pixel people videogame to the real life. Real life are the cases of rape from the epstein files,people that needs to save them.

For the record never give power to censorhip.Thats a big issue now for the damage done thanks to collective shout.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Like i said collective shout and the people that support them need go to mental health institution.You cant separate a pixel people videogame to the real life. Real life are the cases of rape from the epstein files,people that needs to save them.

Sounds like you don’t understand mental health nor do you understand real life my friend.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

Sounds like you don’t understand mental health nor do you understand real life my friend.

if you really think that can i laugh you? asking first to not hurt your unreal life pixel feelings.

 

[kingaz]

Sounds like you don’t understand mental health nor do you understand real life my friend.

They're not the one preoccupied by the hypothetical immoral thoughts of strangers in place of actual real world issues my friend.

 

[Deleted member 753700]

if you really think that can i laugh you? asking first to not hurt your unreal life pixel feelings.

I mean you joked about having a mental health issue. If that isn’t a sure sign of lack of respect I don’t think you need to ask

 

[Captain-Z]

So this isn't a conservative Christian organization seeking to impose their cultural norms on society at large as is their wont?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

Get as offended as you want, the facts are what they are.

The organization behind this is not exclusively Christian. But even if it was that's still no reason to stereotype and criticize all Christians, or even just all Puritans. The vast majority of people who identity as Christians don't do this sort of stuff.

If I said "I hate Jews because they're greedy" and then gave an example of a single greedy Jew everyone would still rightly call that statement bigoted.

 

[Viri]

The payment providers aren't going to stop at these games, and you know it. They're just going after some adult games that most people(including me) don't give a shit about, so they can "test the waters". Power tripping payment providers scare me. Valve didn't "willingly" remove these games, they were threatened and bullied into it.

 

[Captain-Z]

The payment providers aren't going to stop at these games, and you know it. They're just going after some adult games that most people(including me) don't give a shit about, so they can "test the waters". Power tripping payment providers scare me. Valve didn't "willingly" remove these games, they were threatened and bullied into it.

Honesty, I really doubt that. Payment providers have had bans for this kind of content for years for other forms of media. They're finally just taking notice of video games. Collective shout may have been the thing that brought attention to the issue, but the payment providers are the ones who made the call. The bans haven't escalated in other media yet so I'm confident they won't for video games either.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

I mean you joked about having a mental health issue. If that isn’t a sure sign of lack of respect I don’t think you need to ask

I clearly state why people of the collective shout needs go to mental institution because from this:

*They cant separate the fiction from reality.People cant do that need to go mental health institution.This point not need to debate it.

*You are imposing censorship from the whole world.Not all of them will agree with this kind of stuff.Neither adopt easy your propaganda.

*The games i listen before this post will be banned with the new rules. Not now but in the future will be delisted.Thats huge problem because those are good games.

and yes you are supportin collective shout so im asking again can i laugh hard about you unreal pixel fictional feelings?

 

[Deleted member 753700]

Honesty, I really doubt that. Payment providers have had bans for this kind of content for years for other forms of media. They're finally just taking notice of video games. Collective shout may have been the thing that brought attention to the issue, but the payment providers are the ones who made the call. The bans haven't escalated in other media yet so I'm confident they won't for video games either.

Pretty obvious they won’t when GTA makes absolute bankroll and these makes nothing. Money talks.