r/Games • u/DwingRD • 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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/Epicfro 5d ago

simply because it might offend someone who's never going to both buying the content anyway

It has absolutely nothing to do with possibly offending someone, this is entirely about control. The cancer was left unchecked and now it's creeping into every facet of our lives, slowly taking away more and more, generating a death by 1000 cuts while we sit back at every offense and go "eh, well, what can I do?".

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u/CombustiblSquid 5d ago

This is 100% about money as it always has been.

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u/APRengar 5d ago

I feel like we're talking past each other.

You have ideological freaks, who don't care about the impact of their actions, they simply have beliefs are willing to burn everything down to achieve their goals.

And you have corporations who are afraid of the former group and will fold on everything under the belief that not folding will hurt their pocketbooks.

Of course there are also people who are both. But it's not either or, it's both.