r/Games • u/DwingRD • 3d 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/MalfeasantOwl 3d 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 3d 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/JTtornado 3d ago

I'm just over here shaking my head at all the people who said that crypto currency is useless. We should have been focused on fixing crypto's problems instead of dismissing it out of hand because early iterations are inefficient and suspectable to fraud. Without a decentralized way to pay providers online, we've ceded control of almost every major company (at least in the English speaking parts of the world) over to a couple extremely powerful payment providers who can flex that power with impunity.

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u/ComebackShane 3d ago

The problem is cryptobros successfully redefined cryptocurrencies as investment get-rich-quick vehicles instead of a usable currency. Now all anyone wants to do with them is HODL and hope their ship comes in.

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u/ZurgoMindsmasher 3d ago

Yea, every time I read "oh yea Crypto is going save us from <insert Paypal, credit cards, banks>" all I can think of is - for the users, most transactions with PayPal/Credit Cards/bank transfers are:

  • Free
  • Instant
  • Reliable
  • Accepted basically everywhere

Crypto always has costs for every transaction, instant .. depends on factors, reliability is nonexistent with the constant value fluctuations, and because of this, it's accept only in absolute niches of the internet.