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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Side note: I wish they'd just call them porn games, not "adult games". I expect adult games to be games for adults, as in, the games that are age-restricted to 18+.

Or are they going to start removing stuff that's PEGI 18 / ESRB M, like Baldur's Gate 3? No? Exactly.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ being the most common euphemism for porn in English, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

I know, I just think it's annoying. I even turned on some option to see "adult games" in Steam for a little while because I thought it meant it would shut off the age verification for games like BG3. Instead it started showing me porn games (with no age verification), while still requiring an age check for actual adult games.

Americans.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world -5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

ESRB M is not adult. It's for minors. It's SEVENTEEN+ as in YOUR A CHILD SEVENTEEN >> AND << ABOVE.

ESRBs ONLY adult rating is AO. ADULT ONLY. That's why M IS MATURE. NOT ADULT.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I looked it up and you are correct about the ratings but I would imagine the downvotes are because of your second sentence - ESRB M doesn't exactly mean the game is for minors in the same way that AO is only for adults

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Glossed over after someone was shouting about my "A Child." I think it's an honor roll student thing but I wandered off.

[–] xep@fedia.io 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And yet ultra-violent games are fine. What does that say about the morals of the people running these payment processors?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 12 points 5 days ago

Payment processors being puritans again huh?

[+] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works -6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Checks the list of removed games

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale for everyone because a payment provider didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

PayPal is a US company. Everyone should expect them to eventually put bans political content that doesnt align with the Trump admins policies. When that time comes, Valve and Steam is either going to become a worthless racist, queerphobic, science denying, shithole or it will hold the line. Lets hope its going to be the latter.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 5 days ago

Fascist company*, from day 0.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I agree. Not a good precedent. But in this case, I think there's a silver lining in that valve is removing shovelware while retaining the capacity of selling adult games.

Although Valve should be the one setting the rules here. And the rule should be that games portraying borderline (or even outright illegal) situations, such as incest, should be banned from the store.

[–] hisao@ani.social 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That capacity is something that no one could ever count on now when considering a platform for their porn game. Those particular games being shovelware is either a coincidence or maybe they intentionally decided to not show the full list in article with higher quality ones on display.

[–] l_b_i@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago

The "article" is just a lazy copy of a bluesky post. https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27 The list is most likely just an easy spot to screenshot the linked database list of changes. I have never looked into these games on steam before, so I have no idea what are high or low quality to do any deeper looking.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

Ah man, what if my imaginary gooners are imaginary related.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 8 points 5 days ago

I consider free speech quite valuable. Sure the games might be shit but what's next?