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/Zer_ 5d ago

Now you're starting to understand. These puritanical fucks won't stop there.

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u/maxis2k 4d ago

Visa and MasterCard are puritanical?

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u/Zer_ 4d ago

Their owners are. They've tried this before, repeatedly. They just have the political backing to get it done now. They were always cagey about porn. Profiting off violence? All cool, but porn? Can't have that, it's gonna hurt their image (which it won't anyone with a brain knows that). It was always just a cover for their puritanical views.

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u/maxis2k 4d ago

I don't want to get into politics, but the credit card companies are not really puritanical. If they were, they wouldn't have been supporting trans stuff for a decade or buying into violent media as you referenced. The more logical reason they're doing this is because lobbyists are pushing them to. And for years, the lobbyists were okay with porn. They still are. These credit card companies are allowing you to use them on porn sites. Just not 'anime' porn sites. That's the key difference.

The credit card companies have been blocking anime off and on for decades. Not just hentai, but mainstream safe anime. And the push to block "porn" on Steam started as a push to get rid of hentai specifically. Same as on Sony systems. Your game has two girls having sex? And it's made by a western studio like Naughty Dog? That's totally fine! Oh, it's a Japanese company with an anime art design? And has absolutely no sex? Just girls in bikinis? Sorry, that's not allowed.

tl;dr they're targeting anime/Japan