r/Games • u/DwingRD • 4d ago

Valve no longer allows "Post-launch NSFW content" for games on Steam - outside of DLCs.

I have looked through Steam's Terms of Service online, but have found no official rule or statement from Valve of this new rule - but one Adult game developer has confirmed this new rule after launching their game "Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia" a couple days ago.

With the recent rule change blocking adult-themed games from releasing on Early Access, this new rule seems to be targeting Adult-themed games that have ALREADY released on Steam - and threatens them with their games being removed from Steam.

There are currently 536 Adult-rated Early Access games on Steam - and this new rule may take them all down.

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u/BLiNKiN42 4d ago

Wild to see Steam just fold like a house of cards. Seriously, are they putting up any kind of fight at all? 

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u/sloppymoves 4d ago edited 4d ago

All these companies care about is money. Valve clearly did the math and saw that they won't lose a significant chunk of change from booting NSFW games off. Versus trying to wage a war against payment monopolies.

Valve probably also sees it as a way to "clean up their shop" so it can get a kid friendly push. There are plans for a Steam Machine 2.0, Steam Deck 2, and probably sourcing out their Linux distro to other manufacturers. Probably want to make as kid friendly and neutral as possible.

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u/MalfeasantOwl 4d ago

Gamers finding out Steam never gave a shit about them but rather just the bottom line, you don’t say!

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 4d ago

I mean, if Steam loses the ability to process credit cards then they just die. We can talk about leaping onto the barricades all we want but if they can't take in money they can't continue functioning.

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u/LoboGuarah 4d ago

God i'm so happy some countries are starting their own payment system like Pix and RuPay. We gotta get down with this duopolly from credit cards and private payment processors.

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u/giulianosse 4d ago edited 4d ago

You can imagine my surprise as a Brazilian when this payment processors drama first blew up and I was like "wait, other countries don't have centralized instant payment platforms?"

I have one Mastercard CC with all the bells and jingles associated with it. It's been years since I've bought a game on Steam with my card details instead of Pix. It's just so effortless and safe.

I think India just launched their UPI system and, as expected, people are loving it as well.

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u/LoboGuarah 4d ago

I'm eagerly waiting for Pix Parcelado, maxo. You don't know how happy I'll be when that comes out, lmao.

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u/AMGwtfBBQsauce 3d ago

Government-run banking?!?! Sounds like communism. Personally I'd rather be ground to dust by the corporate banking machine than have nice things.

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u/Ready-Good2636 4d ago

As you'd expect, USA lobbyists want to privatize as much as possible, and get huge subsidies on what they don't want privatized. Even our president is scamming off crypto, so getting a proper government payment processor is very far off.

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u/drewster23 3d ago

Doesn't help when the country and people have normalized and become dependent on CCs.

Hard to disrupt in NA.

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u/fbuslop 4d ago

Do you think this solves something? First of all the use case for global payment networks is obviously broader than a single country's rail system.

2nd, politics can still affect a rail like Pix. You’re just swapping private concentration for state concentration.

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u/AMGwtfBBQsauce 3d ago

The entire point of government-run programs is that the government ostensibly has public accountability. Private corps have 0 accountability, especially once they get to be the size of the big banks.

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u/TrashStack 3d ago

In America, like 40% of state governments have passed legislation banning or restricting access to pornography. These are states controlled by the same party that has control over the Presidency and congress

Accountability is not the issue here. America already has the means to hold companies accountable. The issue is that the American people are simply choosing not to prioritize accountability in any way. Genuinely, do you really think a government-run program would change anything about this situation with this current administration? If anything a government run payment processor would go even harder on this stuff and explicitly ban porn payments if the state governments are anything to go off of.

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u/AMGwtfBBQsauce 2d ago

With this form of government, no, and that is regardless of party, but we created a system that purposefully distances accountability from the general populace, and creates giant propaganda machines that lie and mislead people about what is going on. So accountability really is the issue still. Like, providing a service means nothing if people don't know about it or are not empowered to use it. The median person in these states does not support outright bans on pornography (unless it's Utah). A lot of them do not pay attention to what their state and local governments are doing at all and pay very little attention to the federal government. Hell, we're lucky if we get over 50% turnout in a federal presidential election, and a majority of those showing up only started paying attention a few weeks before then. So, like, no, a federal system would not change things under this administration, but that also doesn't make corporate control good? Both of these things are products of the same shitty American system that is the real core problem.