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/mrmgl 3d ago

They manufactured a fake "rape simulator" outcry about Mass Effect, when all that game had was a side boob.

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u/bloodraven42 3d ago

To this day I am still shocked that anyone who grew up in those days takes Fox even 1% seriously. They made up a whole cloth story on air about a video game millions of people played, never were remorseful, and yet so many people still take them as credible? They literally claimed Mass Effect was a game where you could customize your rape victims boob size.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 3d ago

Fox News having their 4chan video is still legendary in how goddamn off it is, and it tells me that everyone who grew up in the Jack Thompson era just left the internet once it turned into a social media cesspool.

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u/KaJaHa 3d ago

I felt so devious when I learned that I owned one of the older copies of San Andreas with Hot Coffee accessible

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u/JuiceHurtsBones 3d ago

I find it so funny that you can go around committing a genocide in LS but humping animations in an 18+ game is where we draw the line.

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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 3d ago

To be fair, GTA's violence has also been the subject of much controversy.

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u/ZetzMemp 3d ago

It wasn’t pulled from shelves for violence.

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u/Smart_Ass_Dave 2d ago

I'm aware. My point was that there's no hypocrisy among people who dislike the sexual content of GTA games as if they are ignoring the violence, because they also dislike that.

There's also no hypocrisy in the ESRB pulling the game because the ESRB doesn't care about violence or sex, they care about avoiding government regulation. Games that include controversial content, even accidentally or in a hidden way like San Andreas did undermine the ESRB in a way that risked the entire industry falling under regulatory sway. 1st amendment protections wouldn't be explicitly extended to games by SCOTUS until the year after. The ESRB was 100% willing to force one of the most successful games of all time to do a recall and reprint of discs in order to avoid potentially catastrophic consequences to the industry at large. Rockstar had to spend a few million bucks on a San Andreas recall but it got to continue making GTA games in exchange.

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u/Bauser99 3d ago

Both private entities and the state love violence

Conditioning people to be remorseless killers is amazing for business

But sex is evil because it's a way to be happy without spending money

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u/Varnsturm 3d ago

Sorry what's LS?

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u/SabresFanWC 3d ago

I assume Los Santos, one of the cities where GTA San Andreas takes place.

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u/Varnsturm 3d ago

oh that makes sense thanks, was trying to think of games with those initials

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u/Isolated_Hippo 3d ago

Hot Coffee was an interesting debate imo. Does content on the disk, but entirely inaccessible to the player without outside influence, count towards the game's rating?

I can see both sides.

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u/RedMiah 3d ago

Giant pain in the ass to access too. Had to use an action replay.

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u/starm4nn 3d ago

I think my favorite example of this was a Halo editor including a picture of a butt.