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Nope. This was a rumor and the article title is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.
Goddamn Christians (hah) fucking up everyone's shit.
As is tradition.
I'm done living under their boot heel
We need a FOSS & decentralized alternative to steam.
Uh, I think it's called the World Wide Web.
I mean, I'm joking, but I do remember buying games directly from a developers website, that's a thing that used to happen.
This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.
GNU-Taler ? (I guess you're not a fan of cryptocurrency)
Keep your damn monkey pictures away from me
I swear Europe has a bunch though. Like Klarna?
Ah yes, Klarna, get consumerist product now, forget to pay later!
We need a...decentralized alternative to steam.
Customer protections would suuuuuuuck if everyone was running different variations of, what is essentially, a store. Not to mention shovelware would be even more rampant.
Ok... GoG it is. Fuck these shills
In the Reddit thread about the rejected NSFW updates, Crimson Delight have only good things to say about Valve's handling of the situation. "I have to say the reviewer was kind and forthcoming, we didn't feel threatened or bullied in any way, and we got the feeling they were trying to do their best to help devs navigate the process," developer Frenzin writes. "But the fact of the matter is that Valve has payment processors breathing down their neck, and the rules keep getting stricter as time goes on."
"Valve isn't the problem here," Frenzin continues. "The big credit card companies are. If anything, Valve has stood up to them and pushed back. They could've simply nuked the 18+ section of Steam, but they didn't, they stuck up for developers. Obviously adult games make Valve money, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of Steam's catalogue. Silksong itself probably earned Valve more than most NSFW titles put together.
"Given that we're erogame devs, we're against any sort of censorship (as long as the content isn't sexualizing minors or nonconsensual in any way)," the developer comments. "But it's important to understand where the real problem lies, and it's not with Valve."
We need Digital Euro yesterday.
We dont; we need USA pay processors alternatives, and of those in EU we have plenty (but I don't know your specific country, so maybe not in your country).
There are some (many is really a stretch) but not available in many countries nor supported by many merchants.
I wouldn't really know, I live in Poland and whenever I go West I'm surprised how backward technologically it is (France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland; only Portugal seems to be modern).
Maybe not backward but lacking internet-related improvements, like being able to take care of government thingies online (I think Denmark is the best in that regard), pay using your national pay processors, get cheap internet, update your opening hours online, not take a 4h break midday... you know, common conveniences
Since the issue is with payment processors, we need to switch to crypto to avoid the censorship and abuse of power from banks.
Anyone who doesn't understand this is a complete moron, but they are average so average people won't see it.
Popularity == intelligence
this kind of mentality solves nothing. blaming people who don't know an alternative or who don't understand crypto is not going to solve this problem. nor is crypto a perfect solution by any means.
you're suggesting a band-aid solution and shaking your fist at "normies". quite ironic.
