It is available on other, quite popular, stores. GOG and itch.io are household names in PC gaming.
Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
No place for challenging art in video games. Books and movies have been pushing boundaries for millennia, but this new medium is way too effective at affecting people
-Valve, probably
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
Zorque@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
As long as that house exclusively uses Linux.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 minutes ago
Lol what?
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 15 hours ago
GOG and Itch sell mostly windows games.
markz@suppo.fi 20 hours ago
I guess you wouldn’t be wrong to say that CSAM is challenging and pushes boundaries.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
CSAM has nothing to do with this conversation. Are you lost?
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
I’m on the fence about the topic, but you’ve gotta be dense to believe CSAM has nothing to do here. The accusation is one of CSAM, so the argument is whether the scene is CSAM or not.
In a perfect world the question would be simple, but in the reality we live in, you have to consider if the art will be misused - and that’s assuming the artist is honest about their intentions in the first place.
Stabbitha@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Maybe look up why the game was rejected from Steam in the first place.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
The distinction may seem like nitpicking but no, CSAM is a legally defined term of depicting actual children being sexually abused.
This game does not feature any such content. Not just because there are no depictions of real children, but also because the fictional children depicted aren’t sexually abused.
Valve’s language cites “sexual conduct” which in this case reportedly (I didn’t watch it myself) has been stretched to include nudity that is non-sexual in nature.
I get why Valve would err on the side of caution, but that TOS decision is no basis to turn around and make the legally relevant claim that the game features actual CSAM.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
If that was true, why would the game removing fictional minors for a distinctly unsexual situation not remedy the rejection? Come on now
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 15 hours ago
CSAM is literally why the game was banned from Steam.