tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Meanwhile, there are “all-ages” anime visual-novel games on steam with official patches hosted by the developers off-site which turn them into full-on pornos.
And not a peep from Valve on that because it’s off-site.
Must be very frustrating to developers of mainline games that by being honest and engaging with valve openly, they face far more hassle than groups who designed their game specifically to circumvent the rules.
Sabata11792@ani.social 15 hours ago
Steam is OK with porn games. Banks are not. Banks have the power. Steam has to not get debanked.
I fully expect to have to download a patch from the dev when buying a porn game because of the censorship. If its not on Steam or a few other trusted platforms I won’t bother paying.
arules@retrofed.com 6 hours ago
Then why isn’t Valve a Bank⸮
CalemitousVariantK@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They probably have more cash money than a lot of banks who haven’t fully marked the value of their assets to market value since about 2008. I don’t actually have a list of who’s who, but creative accounting has been an open secret for some time and will likely become fashionable again either this year or next. Unless someone wants a banking crash or (more likely) is just too stupid to hire anyone that can stop one.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Let’s be clear, I have no problems with valve’s policies.
I’m only remarking on the irony that porn developers might have an easier time because they can intentionally develop the clean version of their game to pass review without having to declare any contents at all.