It might be famous for it, but there really isn't much sexually explicit stuff despite advertisement otherwise....No? They sell Cyberpunk 2077, and that game is famous for its explicit content.
Is Life is Strange a VN that whole plot is potentially going from Minor to Minor having sex?But there have been anime-styled games which don't feature any sexual content get deleted over this, and the fact of the mater is, "Life is Strange" does feature sexual content which depicts minors - so that argument just isn't going to fly.
But there have been anime-styled games which don't feature any sexual content get deleted over this, and the fact of the mater is, "Life is Strange" does feature sexual content which depicts minors - so that argument just isn't going to fly.
But there have been anime-styled games which don't feature any sexual content get deleted over this, and the fact of the mater is, "Life is Strange" does feature sexual content which depicts minors - so that argument just isn't going to fly.
It might be famous for it, but there really isn't much sexually explicit stuff despite advertisement otherwise.
It's been months, and they aren't the type of games I play anyway, so I don't know the name of them off hand. I just remember that it happened and that everyone was confused at the reasoning behind it.
Is it a full blown sex scene that you control?And so is "Life is Strange," in spite of depicting sex between minors.
And so is "Life is Strange," in spite of depicting sex between minors.
Does it really matter when the argument is over depicting sex between minors? Y'all are really going to split hairs over a woke game vs. anime trash?
It actually does depend heavily.Does it really matter when the argument is over depicting sex between minors? Y'all are really going to split hairs over a woke game vs. anime trash?
And yet, as I said, this involves games which had no sexual content in them at all getting deleted, seemingly just over the art style.
Whatever your feelings are on the bans, or the content being banned, the fact remains that they appear to be arbitrary. Case in point; they blocked Evenicle 2 from being sold, and yet the first Evenicle is still available for purchase on their platform. If Valve doesn't want certain content on Steam, that's their prerogative; the problem is they refuse to commit and tell anyone specifically what they won't allow, meaning developers have to roll the dice on potentially wasting a great deal of time and money, trying to get their game onto a platform that doesn't want it.And again, I call extreme skepticism.
Its far more likely the developers are likely than that Steam is banning random games. Especially since they have a bunch of incentives to lie.
And again, if art style were the issue, you'd expect these game bans to be far more common, because the content admin group at Valve Corp is very, very small.
Whatever your feelings are on the bans, or the content being banned, the fact remains that they appear to be arbitrary. Case in point; they blocked Evenicle 2 from being sold, and yet the first Evenicle is still available for purchase on their platform.
If Valve doesn't want certain content on Steam, that's their prerogative; the problem is they refuse to commit and tell anyone specifically what they won't allow, meaning developers have to roll the dice on potentially wasting a great deal of time and money, trying to get their game onto a platform that doesn't want it.
And what rules exactly did Evenicle 2 violate that the first game did not?That doesn't prove its arbitrary. Its entirely possible for one entry to run afoul of the rules and another not too.
And yet they seem to be banning games that don't violate those standards.They do. They literally have a bunch of standards set out; you can google them.
Neither of which are actually against the stated rules of the platform.You can also look at the general trend of games that have been removed. In every case I've seen its either loli-esque characters or gratuitous amounts of rape.
I'm starting to think the reason you're defending Steam is because of a combination of company loyalty, and personal bias.Neither of which I blame Steam for removing.
We're talking about people here, not statistics; people who rely on these games selling to put food on their tables. You can't just dismiss complaints about wrongdoing on Valve's part, simply because it's not affecting enough people in your opinion to matter.The reality is that maybe 1 out of every 100 devs (and I'm just talking VN devs here) is running into this problem. This is making banditos out of molehills.
You do remember that "transition" was started in response to people complaining about them cracking down exclusively on risque (as well as perfectly tame) games containing anime and anime-esque art, don't you? Games that didn't even violate their guidelines at the time; exactly the thing we're complaining about now?Also, honestly, I'd expect these kinds of issues from any company going through the transition that Steam is - IE, going from not allowing any adult content to allowing adult content generally.