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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Checks the list of removed games
And nothing of value was lost.
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.
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.
Fascist company*, from day 0.
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.
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.
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.
Ah man, what if my imaginary gooners are imaginary related.
I consider free speech quite valuable. Sure the games might be shit but what’s next?