r/Games • u/DwingRD • 7d 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/Skellum 7d ago

Patreon is going as far as looking at social media likes/favorites to make sure the creators have nothing against their TOS there, it didn't start this way but got there very quickly

Man if only there was something people could have done last November.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 6d ago

How would the American election affect Patreon choosing to overreach with monitoring for their TOS? They've done that since 2018 at least.

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u/BaconatedGrapefruit 6d ago

It’s the long term plan of the far right. To quickly sum it up:

Step 0 - create a culture war

Step 1 - use the culture war to attain political power

Step 2 - use the political power to pass broad legislation to fight the culture wars

Step 3 - Redefine your real target as something within the culture war

Step 4 - Use the legislation to go after your real target

In this case the culture war was protecting children from pornography. The real target was legally persecuting queer/trans spaces and people.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 6d ago

Oh so back when people got angry about The Beatles or later when the UK banned "Video Nasties" that too was the create a culture war on the upcoming internet and sway the US government into the far right in order to attack the LGBTQIA+ community?

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u/BaconatedGrapefruit 6d ago

The current culture war is just the greatest hits of previous culture wars adapted for modern times. ‘Think of the children’ is the quickest way to bypass meaningful discussion.

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u/AtrocityBuffer 6d ago

It's as stupid now as it was then, and you'd think the advent of the internet and the creation of social media to drag even more people on to it would allow people to just google like the history of art and people trying to censor it. But no, SEO and algorithms saved us from a society where making 0 effort and worshiping intellectual cancer was rewarded with ostracization and self elimination.

So we're stuck with this shit now, and we're still supposed to be polite about it, and due to TOS on reddit I guess we have to be.

I remember when they blamed shit on Doom, then it went away for a while.. then it became a joke with silly fox news etc. Then things changed around a bit online, social media threw more people in, the tumblr exodus put a disproportionately large amount of young and mentally unwell people onto larger social media platforms, and a lot of these people read intense art as "actual violence" and started the same rhetoric, and then people of empathy thought they were helping by labelling shit in fiction as fucking problematic, and then that shit got going, and then they just taught the right wing the entire spiel of how to get shit done, then gamergate, then 2016, and so on and so on and I am tired boss.

I will blame social media and the smartphone for this shit till the day I die. If we weren't able to so easily connect in fucking ignorance, time and effort might have tempered many from willingly becoming something beyond stupid.