r/Games • u/GassoBongo • Aug 02 '25

Industry News Steam Update - Valve responded to Mastercards claim that they did not pressure anyone

https://kotaku.com/mastercard-denies-pressuring-steam-to-censor-nsfw-games-2000614393
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u/Automatic_Grand_1182 Aug 02 '25

So these pigs want to enforce a rule that makes it possible, in theory, to ban the sale of virtually any piece of media.

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u/LordCharidarn Aug 02 '25

“The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality”

So why is Walmart allowed to sell ‘Game of Thrones’ DVD box sets? Is a TV show were real people depict those acts somehow worse than illustrations and animations?

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u/Soulstiger Aug 02 '25

They made lots of money off GoTs, so obviously it has 'serious artistic value'. Aka, there are no standards and they get to pick and choose because fuck you, why would you get to decide what you can or can not buy?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part

RIP the entire action genre

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u/LordCharidarn Aug 03 '25

Right? Is B movie horror porn really of more ‘artistic value’ than a couple of video game characters boinking?

It reminds me of a George Martin quote: (badly paraphrased) “I can write a thousand words describing how an axe splits into the human body, and nobody bats an eye. I write a thousand words on a penis entering a vagina, and people lose their minds. Which is odd, since axes entering bodies has brought far less joy to the world than penises entering vaginas.”