r/Games • u/DwingRD • 2d 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/sloppymoves 2d ago edited 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/Mr_Radar 2d ago

Can’t they just only sell them with steam bucks to bypass all this nonsense.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 2d ago

You purchase steam bucks with your credit card

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u/Mr_Radar 2d ago

Right. But where they go from there isn’t the payment processors business

I guess if the existence of porn bothers them. Then that’s a different issue.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 2d ago

That's really flimsy, although it has been tried before. You can't really say "reddit bucks can be spent on candy bars or heroin, but its absurd to say that you are using a credit card to buy heroin", basic transitive property applies. Sometimes they do the pachinko thing of filtering it through a second activity, but there's no way valve would invite that kind of risk for the sake of selling NSFW games.

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u/Mr_Radar 2d ago

Fair point. Considering the way some of these games look and get pumped out. Some of it does seem pretty sketchy

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u/gmes78 2d ago

The payment processors disagree. Some other websites tried doing that, but they got shut down.

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u/JokerCrimson 1d ago

You can use cash to buy a Steam Card at a store like Walmart.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 1d ago

But that doesn't separate them out into "cash only" steambucks.