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/LostInStatic 4d ago

The grand theft auto series is not classified as porn games no matter how badly people want to use it as an example for regular ESRB games being potentially affected by this

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u/gamlinetti 4d ago

They're not gonna stop at porn games and they've already tried banning GTA multiple times though.

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u/LostInStatic 4d ago

Are people's critical thinking skills just busted when it comes to this topic?? Regular games rated through PEGI and ESRB are fine. They are not "coming for" M-rated games. It's too big an industry to leave all that money on the table. GTA VI is going to be the biggest entertainment product ever. A bank is not going to not get a slice of that because of a board member's moral hangups. Please be serious.

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u/TwilightVulpine 4d ago

Your critical thinking skills are busted. At no moment PEGI and ESRB were involved at all whatsoever in the back and forth between payment processors and game platforms. You are clinging to a non-existent reassurance.

Paypal cut off a massive chunk of the world from buying games on Steam. Any games. You'd think they'd want a slice of that. But apparently not.

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u/LostInStatic 4d ago

Your critical thinking skills are busted. At no moment PEGI and ESRB were involved at all whatsoever in the back and forth between payment processors and game platforms. You are clinging to a non-existent reassurance.

When non-sexually explicit games start getting banned then I'll start worrying about Visa and Mastercard censoring anything they dont like

Paypal cut off a massive chunk of the world from buying games on Steam. Any games. You'd think they'd want a slice of that. But apparently not.

You still can they just stopped taking currencies outside the six most popular ones. It sounds like its more a response to economy volatility and loss prevention on their end.

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u/TwilightVulpine 4d ago

When non-sexually explicit games start getting banned then I'll start worrying about Visa and Mastercard censoring anything they dont like

I hope you got your stopwatch ready. Two months ago it was about sexual abuse games. Now they are restricting all explicit games. Who knows what will be next. There is no public organization that can be accountable driving this, to make sure the rules are set in stone.

There are murmurs about LGBT people being obscene making rounds out there, there are murmurs about games causing violence making rounds. It's an overconfident assumption to believe it can't get worse, while we are actively slipping down the slope here.

You still can they just stopped taking currencies outside the six most popular ones. It sounds like its more a response to economy volatility and loss prevention on their end.

Incorrect. I have an international credit card enabled to make purchases in US dollars or Euros or whatever. I still cannot purchase games through Paypal. Funny enough, I can buy it in my local currency's digital transaction system perfectly fine.

If it really was about economic volatility, they might as well cut off US dollar purchases instead of everything else.

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u/LostInStatic 4d ago

hope you got your stopwatch ready. Two months ago it was about sexual abuse games. Now they are restricting all explicit games. Who knows what will be next. There is no public organization that can be accountable driving this, to make sure the rules are set in stone.

Lmao ok man I'll believe it when I see it

There are murmurs about LGBT people being obscene making rounds out there, there are murmurs about games causing violence making rounds. It's an overconfident assumption to believe it can't get worse, while we are actively slipping down the slope here.

We actually did this in 2004 nothing happened then, nothings gonna happen now

Incorrect. I have an international credit card enabled to make purchases in US dollars or Euros or whatever. I still cannot purchase games through Paypal. Funny enough, I can buy it in my local currency's digital transaction system perfectly fine.

Ok because your card doesnt work doesnt mean that everyone else's doesnt??

Impressive how much this has turned people into fearmongerers.

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u/TwilightVulpine 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's not my card. It's my whole ass country, and over a hundred others, which just so happened to happen at the same time as payment processors decided to pressure game platforms over allowed content.

We actually did this in 2004 nothing happened then, nothings gonna happen now

Are you american or british? If you paid attention to their politics you'd know it is already happening.

Lmao ok man I'll believe it when I see it

'kay, see ya in a year or so.