After Steam's Crackdown on Adult Content, Portals Rally to Offer New Home to Impacted Developers

Digital download portals specialized in adult video games reach out to help developers affected by Valve's recent crackdown.

[Uglyday]

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”

[narsaku]

"Gabe Newel uncomfortably skirts back into the Valve food bar."

I'M NOT HERE!

[mojack411]

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.

[mastershredder]

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.

[rainslacker]

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.

[iggsta3o5]

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.

[TheOttomatic91]

Thank God these games deserve an opportunity to shine.

[WelkinCole]

Since when did Valve become prudes?

[inxine]

so are games like gta etc affected too?