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Steam informs developers to disregard previous 18+ content mandate, pending possible review
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I'm actually wondering if this was from a group of specific people mass-reporting these games, since there didn't seem to be a common thread/infraction amongst them.
Then when real people at Valve actually started looking at the content they didn't find any issues.
Then when real people at Valve actually started looking at the content they didn't find any issues.
I'm still confused about this. Is Valve now backpedaling on slowly applying their policies to offending(?) materials, or did these flags represent selective applications of some new policy that is now being rescinded? In other words, what's the logic for both the flags and undoing them?
Cool as it seemed very ham fisted and without nuance. Valve tossing the baby out with the bathwater.
Obviously a few bad eggs there though. I kinda hope this is just a temporary stay and Valve maybe just goes "if your game has sex with minors or you offer a official patch available elsewhere to Unlock sex with minors then we dont want you here"
I feel like being the willing middle man for animated child porn is a bomb waiting to explode and cause Valve a lot of trouble.
Obviously a few bad eggs there though. I kinda hope this is just a temporary stay and Valve maybe just goes "if your game has sex with minors or you offer a official patch available elsewhere to Unlock sex with minors then we dont want you here"
I feel like being the willing middle man for animated child porn is a bomb waiting to explode and cause Valve a lot of trouble.
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Very good. Hopefully the people at Morality in Media or whatever they call themselves nowadays are crying right now.
Well, being looked at by humans has made everything better again.
I swear, if the Terminator were made now, it'd be Valve not CyberDyne Systems that pushed the envelope.
Yeah, but hard to say if the mobilisation sped things up or helped somehow, so not going to say they 100% shouldn't have done it.
I swear, if the Terminator were made now, it'd be Valve not CyberDyne Systems that pushed the envelope.
Yeah, but hard to say if the mobilisation sped things up or helped somehow, so not going to say they 100% shouldn't have done it.
ye there is def some games that should be reviewed not just nudity but well they might be crossing some lines.
It's not as though the ban was immediate and removed all those games off Steam immediately - they had two weeks. They decided to create outrage on minute 1, day 1.
It could easily have been a million things from automated response from mass reports to some sort of new law that Valve needed to adhere to. But no, first thing people did was go on Twitter to rant. Pathetic.
Valve needs to be more open, but this idiocy of trying to create open flame wars and hostility is even worse.
Which is good, because it resulted in Valve going back on this shiftiness.
Good. Though the "re-review" doesn't fill me with much hope. But at least they're not going full stupid mode with extremely soon takedown notices out of nowhere.
Great! It's impossible to tell if it was the outrage that helped or if it's something else at the moment as Valve is so bad at communicating, but I'm still of the view that it's best to be as loud as possible about such situations considering it's such a niche community that's unlikely to be heard otherwise and am pretty happy at the level of mobilization achieved in response.
Good on Valve. They should really re-review this because this so called "ban" felt like it was because someone made a complaint and Valve went all "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ welp starting locking them all down".
Ranting was the right thing to do. Two weeks notice is ridiculous, Valve provided no actual information on what was happening, weren't answering emails. Taking to twitter was the right call. If this shit had gone through it would have ruin some dev teams altogether.
So why was Witcher not on email list of change your game or it will be pulled? You know if it was sexual content.
What about all those stripper's tits and Hooker sex in gta?
Hopefully Valve learns that communicating is important, eventually. A lot of stupid conspiracy theorizing and awful twitter hashtags could have been avoided here.
What the fuck is going on with Valve. This has happened several times before, where some arbitrary decision is made and then its subsequently walked back on.
I have a feeling if certain people leave, or move away from responsibility then Valve is going to tear itself apart.
I have a feeling if certain people leave, or move away from responsibility then Valve is going to tear itself apart.
gabe probably read some email and decided to investigate what is going on.
Near as I can tell (and someone do feel free to correct me) - the Takedown warning emails were automated. This was not (afaik) an arbitrary decision someone made, and then walked back on.