What a wild ride. Not judging them for this since allowing it is probably PR hell, but they've changed policies so often in the past few months from "no sex", "anything goes", "okay but not anything illegal (obv)", ""no trolls", "no young looking characters"
From the sound of it both Valve and Facebook have the same management issues and the same sort of social-clique nightmare scenarios. I bet the collapsing management has something to do with it.
On paper this sounds good but I can't help feeling like they're gonna be too overcautious with this, and no appeals process or oversight.
Yeah, like I believe Canada for instance doesn't allow drawn art of underage characters, and I believe in Europe there are a number of countries with similar laws. Its basically a GDPR situation. Instead of trying to maintain so many different standards for each region, go with one that is just restrictive enough that it follows the most applicable regulations and laws.
Valve has about as much good PR sense as a bag of rocks. Whatever pleases the corporate overlords though, I guess.
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Is this why most porn artists now add the comically pointless disclaimer "all characters depicted are over 18"
I personally don't agree with laws outright banning loli, but I sure as hell ain't going to complain about a company exercising their right to take this shit off of their private platform. Besides, If Valve thought it would make them money, I bet they'd keep separate standards for different regions - but clearly the audience who masturbates to "thousand year old" dragon girls isn't worth the investment.
Yeah, thats the reason. In some countries its still considered child pornography even if its all entirely drawn.
Gonna keep my eye on you two...
Except this is both good PR and likely a solid business decision??
Thats somewhat ok. At least it allows for Valve to go down the list from "anything" to what you've listed. In due time I figure they'll cross out more controversial stuff until they've pretty much went full circle from nothing to an actual content filter system.
Problem here is that pretty much everything related to this and other sex games that have been banned or threatened with banning has all been traced to a single employee who's been going over the heads of the higher-ups to enforce their own agenda and Valve just doesn't seem to want to do anything about him/her. That's not exactly "a private company exercising their rights". Valve really needs to get it's shit together and take an actual stance instead of flip-flopping and allowing rogue employees to dictate what goes on their platform. In the meantime, it'd probably be better if these porn games moved to a platform built for porn games like Nutaku.
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I still remember that time a "rogue employee" banned Hatred, only for Gabe himself to come around and say "it wasn’t a good decision" and reverse it.
very much indeed, person who *checks profile card* ...joined last month?
I'm not sure how I feel about the legal status of loli, but I am certain about how I feel towards people who enjoy loli: they are some very fucked up and sad individuals.
What the actual fuck.
Are you ok?
Do any of these legislations actually pay attention to what the artist says the images are supposed to depict
What underage characters? All I see is 1000-year old witches!
of all the shit valve has done in the last year, perhaps this isn't the thing you should be arguing with. not a great look.
Ehh. Its at least a possible defense. Of course if all the other context around it frames them as otherwise underage then its unlikely to work. But it does seem to at least mitigate some of the risk.
Maybe I'm cynical about adult content becoming more mainstream, but I'm just waiting for them to start slowly putting up more and more rules to weed out anything over PG13 sex wise.
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