The actual solution would ve having better filters so you're never offered that type of stuff in the first place, but last I checked the only way you could hide anything was with third party extensions
Valve requesting sexual content be censored in Steam games, or they'll be removed
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To legally act in porn you must be 18 (some places might even be 21). Some games straight up have minors in them, by age.
no they're not but they're being really inconsistent with which ones they are targeting which just makes this an even worse problem because what is the change to their policy that they're suddenly enforcing? no one seems to know for sure and even publishers aren't getting answers from Valve
probably not, there seems to be a strong trend of "stop liking what I don't like" in some of the posts honestly
Ohh my bad.
It's probably because the more "cutesy" art style that anime generally has right now, tends to make characters look more childish.
Mmmm... I'm trying to find an explanation that also takes into account Kindred Spirits being hit, and it seems like "these titles could be found and played by children because they look like cartoons" is the closest yet. Because, really, the age-gating on Steam sucks hard, and wouldn't prevent a kid from seeing something they shouldn't.
So you agree then? If we have to fall back to something like "longer hair" it shows how hard it is to see a real difference. Doubly so for people outside of anime/manga consumers.
We all know there're ways to enhance these differences but the recent style used in most animes make even 30 year olds look as 16 year olds. In the 90s this wasn't a big problem.
Yup. I blame the moe-blob culture.
There are various kind of anime artstyle, why choose the one that's generally pandered towards lolicon?
Uh... Because people are talking about things that are on steam not pornhub
Valve, you've only ever gotten away with anything because of the appearance that you do nothing.
If you give up that aegis, people are going to expect you to stop being shit. We both know you have neither the capacity nor the intent.
If you give up that aegis, people are going to expect you to stop being shit. We both know you have neither the capacity nor the intent.
I mean, I dislike and complain about that too, but we are in a gaming forum discussing videogames.
Whataboutism doesn't take us anywhere.
Soooo Valve is clamping down on the "anime tiddies" games, right? "Adult" porn games like Ladykiller in a Bind are fine?
Nintendo has shown lately that there fine with a good dose of anime tiddies.
I'd like to add that there's been absolutely no mention of underage sexualization being a reason for the removal of games or their content.
So this is all speculation based on the fact a lot of the targeted games we're talking about have an anime arstyle or anime inspired cartoon artstyle.
Your persecution complex is not actually an argument. Nobody argued against banning you for your avatar.
However, that you cannot distinguish between porn of children and porn involving adults is deeply concerning.
It is possible to portray young characters without hypersexualizing them. It is possible to portray women without portraying them as children.
That you cannot even see the possibility of that is seriously the most concerning thing of all. I have watched anime for ages now, and played anime-style games for a similarly long amount of time. Oddly, in older anime, this was not a general problem. It was easy to tell what character was adult and what character wasn't. This means that it is a conscious choice to portray female characters as hypersexualized children. It is not a natural law that forces all anime art to be that way. No artist has to do it. The style works just fine if you don't do it.
In fact, not doing so all the time would be generally better, because you'd have some variety for a change.
Seems to have a 15 year old character http://yuripedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hina_Komano
Game is also rated M for sexual content, so there must be some sort of content in it of a sexual nature. 15 is below the age of consent in many countries.
edit: Uhhh https://www.destructoid.com/win-a-free-copy-of-that-sexy-lesbian-ghost-game-338279.phtml <- So is that the 15 year old character?
This. If they suddenly go "We can actually police our content", then obviously the response would be "Well why the fuck don't you?". Of course, the answer is "Because we have all the money and don't give a shit except when we do", but that's not really acceptable from an online marketplace that's something like 70% of the entire digital games market.
I agree. My post was just meant as a general reminder that this problem goes way beyond stuff like the current Moe trend.
I see the "b-but violence is fine and just tits aren't" talking points are out in full force. Pretty fucking transparent.
Welp, Sayori's cashcow had to end some day. Nekopara was her big break.
But yeah, I'm not really cool with this.
But yeah, I'm not really cool with this.
I legit don't see it. She looks late teens/early 20s to me.
People who go "bUT Waht abOuT vioLEnCe in vIdeO GamEs" don't actually care about violence in video games and I guarantee if you wanted to have a genuine discussion about violence in video games they would most likely default to saying it's a video game don't take it seriously ugh why are people putting politics in muh games. It's the most blatant whataboutism possible, like the video game equivalent of saying "But what about starving children in Africa."
And I'm sure they're championing the cause of limiting violence in videogames on a regular basis, rather than just wheeling it out when they need something to deflect to.
15 years old
M rating
And people are asking why are they banning these games lol
In my case, I personally don't care for extreme violence (I find the latest Mortal Kombat games more squicky than the vast majority of porn out there) nor am I interested in a reduction of it in general, I'm just more annoyed at the ridiculous double standard involved with violence and sex.
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It's possible to think someone's a piece of shit, while simultaneously acknowledging they're experiencing unfair circumstances.
This is what I want. I think japanese DMM should make an international storefront. So many stuff is geoblocked and R18 (the overseas service) isn’t that great, there a lot of missing content.
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2018/05/18/regarding-recent-inquires-into-steam-content-policy-notices/
"We went to great pains to run the game’s content by Valve representatives––including sending along every potentially questionable graphical asset along with advanced builds of the title––to ensure that that feeling was mutual. The game would have never appeared on the platform if we had not confirmed with Valve representatives that they did not feel the content was pornographic and was appropriate for the platform."
Valve literally sat down and played through the game before allowing it on their store
Wait, why are we talking about Porn?
You think Porn and games are the same thing? Better yet, does Steam have porn?
To kindly counter your argument, adding a number to reality doesn't change reality. You can dress an 80 yr old as a schoolgirl and call her 14 doesn't change that she's 80. Similarly, you can design a 14 year old and call her 21 doesn't change the fact that she was designed to be a 14 year old.
Bleh. Valve is right here. Either work along or move your games elsewhere.
What someone jerks off to probably says a whole lot more about a person than playing violent games does, psychologically.
Pushing buttons on a controller is also a hell of a lot more detached from the act than masturbation over something so the only reason seems to be a fallacy involving some imagined inequality regarding censorship.
Pushing buttons on a controller is also a hell of a lot more detached from the act than masturbation over something so the only reason seems to be a fallacy involving some imagined inequality regarding censorship.
That was Valve mistake of course, but this doesn't mean having a M rated game with a 15y old character is right.
I've been watching anime since the early 2000s, and this was already a thing back then to be honest.
That might be true for "mature" women, like characters that are supposed to be mothers, but there's often not much difference in artstyle between a 16 and a 22 years old character for example, be they male or female. Sometimes the guys will get some facial hair to show that they're older, but that's about it.
And really, "longer hair" as a way to show that they're older? C'mon, that's a rather poor argument. There are tons of long haired underaged characters in mangas, animes and games.
A crackdown on the acceptance of the sexualizing of minors has been focussed on the last few years in many countries. Just because Valve allowed it at one point, doesn't mean they always will.
The game might not be pornographic to the point of intercourse or depicting penetration, but nudity and sexually suggestive scenes with a 15 year old is sexualizing a minor in many countries.
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