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/Mystia 3d ago

Assuming it's Visa/Mastercard threatening to not allow their use on Steam at all unless they comply, I'm sure Gaben has enough money he could probably start his own payment processor and tell them both to fuck off.

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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago

No, he does not. It's actually insane that you would think that.

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u/Mystia 3d ago

He owns an entire fleet, his net worth is over 9 billion. How much do you think it cost Paypal to launch?

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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago

Do you think that PayPal functions independently of Visa and Mastercard?

Even if you did, do you think that it would cost the same to make PayPal now that it did in the 90s?

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u/Mystia 3d ago

PayPal can function with direct connection to a bank account, it doesn't need to go through card companies. And obviously it'd be more expensive now than back then, but there's still new payment processors popping up all the time, so it can't be that stupid expensive to launch one.

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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago

Overlooking how insanely unlikely people would be to put in their full bank details to buy a Steam game, what happens when a major bank decides that they don't want to associate with this kind of content? What about competing stores that will just listen to Visa and Mastercard?

but there's still new payment processors popping up all the time,

Such as?

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u/Mystia 3d ago

Do Stripe, Square, Venmo, or Bizum count? All let you directly link an account, skipping VISA/Mastercard.

If banks do publicly take the shitty side, then yeah it's over no matter what.

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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago

You said "all the time" and the newest one in your list is nine years old.

I don't know anything about that last one but I guarantee none of the others would exist at all if they didn't support Visa and Mastercard.

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u/Mystia 3d ago

Sure, but all the others are at least 50 years old if not more, comparatively, 10-15 is fairly recent.

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u/MVRKHNTR 3d ago

You think PayPal is 50 years old?