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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by jimbob45 on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:23PM (#44611674)
I suspect Valve is blaming the credit card companies for something they really wanted for themselves. Steam is a big store open to everyone and you’re going to scare away a big chunk of seniors, Christians, etc with stuff like incest, ageplay, and rape just so that a small minority uses you instead of…itch.io? Better to keep the big safe names like Being a Dik and Eternum on Steam and flush the rest so that you can have the best of both worlds.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by maxbond on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:35PM (#44611744)
I think that for better or worse Valve is genuinely committed to lassies faire moderation, they have historically been very hesitant to remove really heinous games. I don't think they're using this as cover.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by Dracophoenix on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:48PM (#44612428)
That changed with Hatred in 2015. There have been a number of them since. It seems that anything that gives Valve bad press is on its shit list, even if the premise theme has been done before by a bigger or more well-known company stateside. If the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game has full frontal nudity and realistically depicted sex scenes, I doubt Valve would give it a second look.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by maxbond on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:28AM (#44612599)
That was ten years ago, there have been tons of really objectionable games on Steam in recent years. Eg I just checked and the game where you roleplay as Kyle Rittenhouse shooting protestors is still on Steam.

Per Wikipedia:

> [Hatred] was shortly removed by Valve from their Steam Greenlight service due to its extremely violent content but was later brought back with a personal apology from [Valve's co-founder] Gabe Newell.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by Dracophoenix on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:13PM (#44620698)
The fact that it was removed at all was a sea-change from Valve's previous stance. Temporary or not, it set a precedent for other removals. For example, Valve had unceremoniously prevented the publication of Super Seducer 3 and retroactively de-published its prequels as a result of a campaign launched by a group of British feminists. (https://happymag.tv/super-seducer-3-steam/)
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by daedrdev on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:59PM (#44612175)
Valve made the conscious choice to allow porn games in the first place, they knew what they were getting into imo
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by theshackleford on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:03AM (#44613516)
> I suspect

Based upon what evidence?

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