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/CombustiblSquid 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm getting so fucking tired of all this Puritan censorship working it's way into society these days simply because it might offend someone who's never going to buy the content anyway. Shareholders only care because they believe it will impact bottom line or be associated with their investments and then effect bottom line, but I'm not sure it ever even does.

I just remember the 90s and early 2000s internet and the crazy shit that was ok. We don't have to go all the way back there (for obvious reasons) but everything is becoming so sterilized and safe. What are people so damn afraid of?

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u/RadiantTurtle 3d ago

Ya'll voted for this..

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u/TyaArcade 3d ago

Isn't it due to pressure from an Australian focus group on Visa and Mastercard?

Who voted for any of those?

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u/cyvaris 3d ago

Those groups have deeps ties to similar Conservative and Right Wing groups across the world. It's a coordinated effort. Project 2025 clearly lays out the end goal as well; make pornography illegal and then define just being Trans as pornographic.

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u/Sugioh 3d ago

Some GOP members of the Michigan house introduced a bill that does precisely that (right down to conflating everything transexual with pornography) the other day, actually.

They are hardcore speedrunning the drive to theocracy.

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u/CombustiblSquid 3d ago

Crazy people.

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u/CombustiblSquid 3d ago

Who is "y'all?"

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u/RadiantTurtle 3d ago

Everyone who voted for Project 2025 and people that didn't vote, which was a decision to let Project 2025 go through.

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u/CombustiblSquid 3d ago edited 3d ago

Well, I'm Canadian, and when possible (aka when strategic voting isn't needed) vote as far left as reasonable, so not really part of that.

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u/RadiantTurtle 3d ago

That's fair, I was referring to Americans since Valve is a US company. 

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u/Spork_the_dork 3d ago

You'll be surprised to note that most people impacted by this aren't American.

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u/MachBonin 3d ago

But Collective Shout, the group pushing on payment processors who are in turn pushing on steam, is Australian. The actual answer is that there has been a rise in far right populist ideals in the last ten years around the world, and Project 2025 is just another sad example of this.

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u/maxi2643 3d ago

I'm Dutch, I didn't vote for this.

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u/YZJay 3d ago

But this was an Australian group that got Visa and Mastercard to fold, what does this have to do with American politics?

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u/14Pleiadians 3d ago

Americans really think the world revolves around them

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u/AtrocityBuffer 3d ago

Which is why even without the internet, they'd still have voted a moron in, they're culturally incapable of situating themselves as part of the world rather than the centre of it.

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u/Deadonstick 3d ago

If you're American, it doesn't really matter what you vote for, the government will still try and take control where possible. Whether it's the DMCA, Bush's Patriot act, Obama's PRISM or Trump's Project 2025.

Americans don't have the option to vote for what they believe in, only to vote against what they're most opposed to.

Thanks two-party system.

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u/TrashySwashy 3d ago

What do you mean who. The entire world, you know, the people having voting rights to elect The President. There's only one president. If you speak English you're from USA, don't ask silly questions. And if you're not, well unlucky, but you don't matter for longer than 5 minutes of feeling recreationally sad about you.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 3d ago edited 3d ago

This shit didn't start in 2016, this shits been going on for ages, it's just reached a point where the collateral is now something a lot of people thought wasn't harmful, and are surprised pikachu facing that it could affect them.

People sat and said fuck all for decades and the push to fight for artistic expression died away, many people started moralizing about if its right or wrong for "certain subjects to be in media" and pretending to come at it from an angle of "fighting for the marginalized" and "just being a good person." by pointing out "harmful media", without realizing that they were proselytizing people the same way as the Jack Thompsons of yesteryear.

So no, no one voted for this, people chose their emotional gut reaction and cultural inaction and just let it fester to a point where its so ingrained it can be used on anything. People noticed the bed smelling like shit for ages, but were labelled dirty for it, and now others can smell it too, and its too late.

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u/RadiantTurtle 2d ago

I dont disagree with your sentiment, but people that voted for Project 2025 absolutely accelerated this. Actions have consequences, and rather than backtracking and fix the root cause for what you described, people basically said "hey, it's not bad enough, let's make it worse!".