HuniePop and other adult games facing removal from Steam after complaints - Sensationalist Headlines

https://techraptor.net/content/huniepop-other-adult-games-facing-removal-steam-store A number of adult-oriented Steam games have allegedly received communications from Valve stating that they must change their games or face removal from the store according to multiple sources. Starting things off, dating sim/puzzle game hybrid HuniePop may have to remove content from the game after allegedly receiving an e-mail from Valve according to a tweet from the game’s developer. Earlier today, the HuniePop developer stated that Valve has sent him an e-mail mandating an update to the game to bring it into compliance with their rules & guidelines for pornographic content. The developer is following up with Valve via e-mail. If you already own the game like myself and many others, you might be worried that Valve would remove it from your library should the issue not be resolved. However, Valve has allowed users to keep removed games in the past and the developer of HuniePop does not believe that Valve would remove a game people have already paid for. Aside from HuniePot, developer Lupiesoft (The Stargazers, Mutiny!!) have claimed that they have received similar e-mails from Valve on Twitter: The twitter thread expands further, stating that the developer has no adult-oriented content in the game itself as it is distributed on Steam. However, Mutiny!! does have the developer link to their site where they have instructions on how to apply an uncensor patch to the game, but the developer makes sure not to directly link to the patch or other aspects. There does not appear to be any instructions directly on Steam’s platform as far as we can tell. Update: We’ve heard back from a representative from HuniePop‘s developer HuniePot. In their response, they stated that Valve did not mention where the complaint was sourced from, only that a complaint was received. Their game was stated as containing pornographic material, but there was no indication of what material Valve took issue with. Additionally, the HuniePot representative stated that “it’s certainly surprising to see this notice after being on Steam for over 3 years with no such problems.”

Fucking moralists

The first time Valve has given a shit about any of their rules on the steam store, and it's to get rid of some games that have optional-not-distributed-through-steam titty patches? Fuck off, Valve.

I was not aware that huniepop was blatantly pornographic, more like a very thin borderline.

Valve cares if its their ass on the line, like how they got their lawyer, Quackenbush to send cease and desist letters to CSGO betting sites. They could not care less about adult games on steam, at least I would hope so since Gabe himself got Hatred back on Steam.

Oh look, another case of Valve fucking up on virtue of raw corporate greed with absolutely zero care for the long term stability of their own platform.

Long-term anything is Valve's biggest weakness, but how is this greed? I'd imagine they'd make more money from people buying the adult games then from people who otherwise would have boycotted Steam for having adult games (lol). Since Valve really wants Steam to be a place where absolutely anything can be sold this is perplexing.

Funny how western-styled games are allowed to have boobs and dicks and stuff and eastern-styled games aren't.

Embarrassing, simply embarrassing

Valve's complete unwillingness to regulate their own platform unless directly and seriously threatened is the corporate greed part. It undeniably makes them far more money to run an unregulated, unchecked catalog where anyone can upload anything for a small fee, no matter how much of it is trash. It would sacrifice profit to actually give two shits about how the service is run and about what games are put up, so it won't happen unless not doing it would somehow cost them more money.

I'm curious if this is some government body interfering. They had actually let up on restrictions on adult games a little while back, then after a few months suddenly started to revert course and eventually even started to ban posting links to official uncensored patches, and now this. So the only thing I can think is like the FCC or something is happening behind the scenes.

so when are TW3 and GTAV going to get their nudity/sex stuff patched out?

Kind of a massive difference between mature content and erotic/pornographic content, mate.

I believe the total flood of games is actually making them lose money, if they were released today on Steam small indies like Terraria, The Binding of Isaac, and Factorio would be totally drowned out by asset flips. Considering they've let games ship without executables multiple times, I believe it's Valve devs thinking their time is better spent elsewhere then checking new game submissions.

I... kind of doubt it. Those games really thrived based on YouTuber fanfare and word-of-mouth. And fuck, Factorio came out waaaaay after steam began to be flooded hard.

you literally see people hump in tw3, i think its very comparable. if that isn't explicit, than what the fuck is.

So games that have/are any of the following: asset flips, stolen assets, outright broken, straight garbage, etc. Yeah nah, those are fine.But titties? LOL BANNED

Highly unlikely. Steam right now makes money from the flood of trash on multiple levels, namely: Terrible games being bought as a joke The trading card economy The achievement hunting community which is ready to purchase any game no matter how trash if it is has achievements The $100 entry fee for any given game that enters through Steam Direct.

dont these games usually take out the full blown nudity/pornographic content already? some of them even upload files outside of steam to patch it back in if the user wants.

It's actually genius. With trading cards and the market, Valve has created a way to make money with no humans needed.

Explicit sex is showing intercourse with no censors and, typically, with the intent of creating pornographic content. It's the difference between a 30 second cutscene showing two people having sex, and a five minute long cutscene with clear view of penetration.

Yeah, its really not true. Of course articles get written all the time from little three person dev-teams about how their game didn't do well because of the Steam market being flooded, not because their games just don't have any marketing or signs of quality themselves. I mean shit, always a good point to go back to: Opus Magnum is apparently a great game sitting at an overall rating of 97% right now on Steam with over a thousand reviews. And it was rejected from Good Old Games for not meeting their standards. But despite being a puzzle game it still became massively popular. And it came out in December of 2017 well after the flood had begun. And its a game I don't even remember that much marketing for or activity on Youtube. And unless you're like me and have viewed over 7000 games in the recommendation queue or look in very specific places you aren't going to see that much trash. Some sterling youtubers may talk about Steam being completely destroyed by trash and preventing any good games from being seen, but that really doesn't hold up unless you consider the mere existence of the trash to be an immediate death sentence.

Suggestive is the opening pages of The Last Wish. You honestly can’t be serious in trying to say that two fully nude (usually with breasts and vaginas being seen) characters who are explicitly being shown having sex isn’t explicit sexual content.

i wondet how much britain's new porn laws have to do with this

I for one have found it increasingly difficult to trust any smaller game on steam due to the sheer onslaught of shovelware when I used to have a much easier time telling what was good and what wasn't, because being on steam was, in of itself, a sign that the game was at the very least functional and absolute trash was an exception. Nowadays games that are not shovelware are in the statistical minority. More than 7,000 games were released on steam last year alone. It's ridiculous how much is uploaded on a regular basis and how difficult it gets to sift through the garbage.

funny how non pornographic games are being taken down then huh. did you even read the article? https://twitter.com/Lupiesoft/status/997293788316844032 https://twitter.com/Lupiesoft/status/997293789055086594 https://twitter.com/Lupiesoft/status/997293790711840768 https://twitter.com/Lupiesoft/status/997324130251718656

Seriously this is so strange since Gabe Newell himself got Hatred, a game about brutally murdering innocent people, on Steam after it was removed. With that and how economically they spend their time (don't give a shit) it's got to be an outside entity behind this.

Again, whether the content is defined as pornography also matters. As counter-intuitive as this may seem, a short sex scene in a story-driven game that's well over a hundred hours long is not considered pornographic, so the ESRB didn't rate it AO.

The first three are actually not allowed. The last one ultimately is subjective. There are people who will love games most others find terrible and shit.

lmao fuck off with that. It takes two seconds to realize how bullshit this is. Mutiny!! is a porn game for all intents and purposes. It's hosted on Nutaku for a reason and it doesn't leave much room for imagination in terms of the intent. https://www.nutaku.net/games/download/mutiny/ (nsfw, obviously). The steam version only "removes" the adult content as a formality, with the official website for the game hosting all the uncensor patches needed to get it back up to speed. Their claims that their games do not have pornographic content are utter bullshit, they know full well how much they're bending the site's rules and how many loopholes they're exploiting.