Hardcore Gamer: The games getting the physical treatment this time around are: Beat Blades Haruka, euphoria, Kindred Spirits on the Roof, and Kara no Shojo 2. Of all these, only Kindred Spirits of the Roof is available via Steam.
After Valve threatened publishers and developers of visual novels with mild adult content, MangaGamer has found a new home for its titles.
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I love GOG and I hope they make themselves a home for visual novels, especially ones with a little fan service.
It looks like Steam is going to regulate itself to death. On one hand they can't stop the influx of cheap crap games and unfinished games, on the other hand they crack down on legit games because of fan service. It's kind of sad to watch.
Agreed, Valve is becoming too complacent. I miss the time limited deals or buy indie games to unlock a major game, etc. I am still pissed that Steam Greenlight is gone. I hate they censored games due to fan service or nudity 😞
Come On Gabe and his team. What is the point of the media touting that majority of gamers are in their 30s or older and still treated like kids. What is wrong with adult content on games?
After a couple of rather tense days for independent visual novel developers, it appears that Steam is taking a softer approach to the issue.
Good. I don't need Steam to be moral puritans that tell me what's appropriate for me to buy and play.
There was a thread on one of the forums about this, and it had 84 pages(when I perused it last night) of mostly people upset that Steam was doing this for what seemed to be no apparent reason, and having a double standard in terms of what is considered appropriate.
I don't think Steam as a whole tries to be arbiters of the type of content appropriate for the platform. They outright refuse porn, but this kind of stuff is more akin to late night cinemax....although usually with better stories. They sometimes make decisions which don't make sense, but for the most part, they just want to make money.
This all started because some group trying to prevent the trafficking of children decided to make a fuss, and likely started a campaign that flagged these games as inappropriate. I have a feeling this whole thing wasn't some systematic thing by Steam where they actively decided to remove these games.
I have to give it to huniepot devs they really push and fight back to defend their products. It’s a shame that the puritan disease has spread into the valve storefront. Adult games have a right to exist especially in a digital download store. What’s the problem with putting the games behind a credit card access area to avoid young prying eyes? I don’t know any 10 yr olds with credit cards. It’s infuriating to me that this bs continues to happen. That dismembered heads and gore is ok but sex and nudity is not. That murder porn thrives but sexual content is shunned. I can understand the ban on consoles but this should not be an issue on PC.
Anything can be modded and patched on PC. Valve is stupid. What exactly they trying to avoid? Being sued? Why skirt around the adult content of games? Just dip your toes in the sexual currents of adult content with games like elven love and a censored VR konojo? It’s rediculous just jump in already there’s money to be made in this area. Leave the censorship to consoles games. PC games can be modded and patched for sexual content but that requires navigation to other sites and a bit of knowledge on modding games. This should not even be necessary with PC games. Just sell the dam games as is use the rating system.
At any rate should steam continue with their non inclusive contradictory way of dealing with the sexual content of games because they have no spine in dealing with a few raging puritans who can’t deal with nudity. Go to FAKKU or DSLITE among others who thrive selling sexualized games for ADULTS who can deal with such content as ADULTS. Because apparently steam thinks only kids buy games.
Drugs,foul language,extreme violence are ok but sexuality is bad? Steam spilled the milk bad.
Hunie pops trash only reason it got famous was because pubic hair and markymark made the game famous.
Digital download portals specialized in adult video games reach out to help developers affected by Valve's recent crackdown.
Valve what are you going to do to stop school shootings?
“We’re gunna ban naked women, cause women are the root of man’s evils”
Honestly disgusting that Valve would pull this kind of stunt literally overnight for developers and publishers. Especially the games that got express permission beforehand and have been on the storefront for years now.
Right of the bat, Steam/Valve is not in the adult entertainment industry and that was made clear as F. This decision was not just a Steam thing. It was feedback, ethics and professionalism. Sorry. We don’t want your wackoff material on the gamespace. We don’t want any instances/data/etc. of that material on the site/app. Upset with that? Go confide in your sticky anime pillow or take your hairy palm (just one for obvious reasons) off the keyboard and go upstairs and ask your mom to write in a letter.
Great. So from now on, any game with any bit of nudity or sexual content we'll just take off steam as well.
I mean, it's never really necessary in any game or TV show. I can count on one hand(not a euphemism), the number of times a sex scene or nudity in a movie was actually done well and added to the story. Can't think of a single time where it was needed in games.
Obviously, you and Steam are the arbiters of what is appropriate, and how much is too much.
But, I feel I'm more in the right, and I say that all nudity and sex need to go. Next any skimpy clothing that barely covers up the naughty bits. Because only my opinion matters. I'm sure you'll agree being that you obviously think any and all portrayals of sex or sexuality is somehow immoral and disruptive to society in some way.
So should we ban The Witcher 2/3 now? How about God of War should PS4 ban that from their platform? How about Duke Nukem games? How about Dead Island since it has references of rape? Lets just go ahead and shred any instance of art, media, or games with potential nudity or perverse content. At this point there is little difference in utterance between you and the very people that have burned books, art and culture in the name of regimes, and religion. It is essentially the same line of thinking and is the antithesis to individual expression or thought.
