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

Only in the US

Steam is a more popular platform for game distribution than fucking tumblr.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858310/JESUS_vs_MUHAMMAD/ Ok, cool and good but boobs are bad

well this is bullshit, and it's likely that nekopara will also be affected, despite the games having absolutely no references or implications to any sexual content whatsoever if you don't install the r18 patch

make steam great again

Might aswell remove Skyrim because LoversLab exists Also gta v

While I'm surprised that's still up, it's not capable of being seen as "selling pornography/erotic content." Also that's way more low-profile. Way more. As in, ask people in Valve if they know that game exists compared to asking if they know about Huniepop.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2018/05/18/regarding-recent-inquires-into-steam-content-policy-notices/ This game has been on steam for over 2 years without issue. Suddenly it's being removed in 2 weeks. Valve refuses to tell them exactly what is wrong with the game, just that it's going to be removed in 2 weeks if they don't change it. 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.

None of what Valve is doing right now makes sense. The devs can't make changes to their games if they don't know what to change. This whole sudden change of mind from Valve, to me, has signs of them being strong armed by some one/ something and being forced to make these changes without revealing what's going on behind it all. They wouldn't do that so suddenly and with so little explanation otherwise.

Meanwhile, this game, which is /very/ up-front with it being full of sex and uncensored, has received nothing of the sort from Valve. Forced to pretend to be her twin brother on a cruise ship full of his classmates and enemies, the Beast finds herself thrown into a game of complex social manipulation, as well as literal bondage. Can you win enough of their votes to get back the Beast's motorcycle? Will you get locked up in cargo for doing too unconvincing an impression of the Beast's brother? Or will you just spend the whole time brazenly getting the Beast's pussy wet? An erotic visual novel by the creators of Analogue: A Hate Story about social manipulation, crossdressing, and girls tying up other girls.

Probably the UK's war on porn that's lighting a fire under their ass Its funny how they have the resources to curate content but still allow garbage asset flips on steam

You should know by now that violence is more moral than pornography.

Mainstream media outlets are picking up on this now. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkxdk/steam-banning-adult-anime-visual-novel-huniepop

Half-Life too 2

Only in the United States (why did the country have to be settled by religous extremists kicked out of England)

You're saying that, but then you have Russia where game classifications are the most severe when homosexuality is involved, especially in a positive (or not outright negative light). Your game will get a more strict classification if it has two dudes kissing than if it has blood and gore, it's kind of ridiculous.

Steam should do with other non-manga style games that have fanservice like these "hentai" games, and get rid as well these racist games and the ones done in 5 minutes with a public asset pack. Better yet, just enforce your ToS and get rid of all these Steam groups that glorifies nazism and school shootings while you do this.

Pretty much, this is no different than violence being freely allowed on TV but porn getting shafted hard.

Also worth considering is that Paypal as a company is really not keen on seeing its service being used for anything remotely sexual; Patreon notoriously had a difficult time implementing the payment method and had to play around semantics to a significant degree, because Paypal will not under any circumstance allow anyone to essentially purchase pornography, or sexual services, through their service. Nutaku, the site which hosts a bunch of these games, went around the issue by using paypal to allow customers to buy internal currency which can then be used to buy games, but I'm not sure if paypal can be used directly to purchase the games for real money seeing as they are explicitly porn. Paypal may have learned that Steam was effectively selling games that can be restored to full porn with just a patch and have began to complain loud enough for Steam to be forced to take action. Only takes one bloke with too much time on their hand to start mass-reporting every instance of such games being effectively purchasable via paypal for the company to start caring.

A friend of mine is guessing that valve is removing a lot of this content because they're attempting to make inroads into the Asian gaming market IE China/Korea/Malaysia/Indonesia and are cracking down on it because those countries are far stricter about sexual/pornographic content. Valve doesn't wanna risk getting banned in those countries so they're effectively just nuking everything they deem a risk to that.

Good, i'm tired of this anime wank bait that's spreading around steam.

Huniepop was actually fun to play, and I'll be sad to see it go. Good riddance to the thousands of VNs though.

If you have it in your steam library it ain't going away.

So from the looks of it, it seems like this organization was behind this: https://twitter.com/ncose/status/997484630273032192 It's a classic "think of the children" bullshit campaign.

I'm laughing so I don't cry because of how stupid this is

dont understand these posts tbh (besides the fact theyre obvious shitposts), these games hardly affect you at all if you dont buy them, and as others pointed out im sure games like nekopara will be affected soon. those games are hugely more VN content than sexual content

Now im really curious why valve didnt discole that to the huniepop dev and had to keep it hidden,valve being secret in their products is one thing but when people risk losing their project for nebulous reasons or legal issues only being resolved when the law has caught up to valve they still keep that guise for some reason.

the closet we get to a valve comment so far https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/8ka71y/huniepop_and_other_adult_games_may_be_removed/dz6k3he/

Valve's communication is so poor reddit comments are their most frequent method.

so why on earth is this only an issue now when some of these games have been on steam for years 🤔