Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores

• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah and what I am saying is this is stupid shit to do that for.

  You need to work on your reading comprehension.

  So what you are arguing for really is for Steam and Epic to distribute this.

  Yes, I am. There doesn’t appear to be a non-moral-panic reason for it to be barred, and being barred from steam will have a deleterious effect on the game and on the studio’s ability to keep making games. I wish company didn’t have that power, but they do.

  source

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its their platform. In what world can you force people to sell shit they dont want to sell? You can literally go buy it and experience the art right now. But its not on Steam with achievements and friends seeing me play it so fuck it? Lmao what logic is this?

    source

    • Feyd@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are getting loads of marketing from this

      This particular game is. It won’t always apply to every game, which is why I want digital marketplaces that have so much market dominance they can make or break studios to not choose which games they allow on their platforms to not be based on vibes.

      This seems pretty straightforward and your argument is incoherent at this point. They are getting loads of marketing from this

      My argument isn’t incoherent just because you have terrible reading comprehension.

      source

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here: https://www.gog.com/en/game/horses play the game. There, thats a major marketplace right there and literally the best one.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m with you until I got here. What world can you force people to sell shit they don’t want to sell? In a world with anti trust laws.

      I like steam, but arbitrary decisions like this is going to get them under fire by the FTC sooner rather than later.

      source

      • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This all happened because they had a literal child riding one of the naked adults on a lead and then wanted to play dumb. I dont agree with Steam practically controlling the PC market, but this one is a case of the developers stepping on their own rake and then turning around and saying “look what they’ve done to me!” I don’t know why this is such an unpopular opinion. But I digress. Because in actuality I would simply not buy the game, I don’t actually care if it is available on Steam, I’m just saying having a kid ride a naked adults shoulders is very obviously not going to pass their content checks.

        source

        • -> View More Comments