If the group "Collective Shout" gets their way, yes.

You can steal cars and murder people in GTA. Your payment processor will certainly not like this .

If Steam bends the knee further then yes, games like GTA, Doom, horror games and basically anything that features any kind of violence or ability to engage in violence will be targeted and subsequently censored into oblivion if not outright removed from platforms like this.

Basically all the same games that were targeted back in the 80's when the war on violent video games first kicked off.

This is the same agenda being pushed, just by different faces and names.
Same crap we've been fighting against for around 4 decades now.

There's nothing moral or virtuous about this agenda, it's just more anti gaming hate trying to get it's way again via new tactics and targets.

And if they get their way they only thing they'll succeed in doing is increasing traffic to the high seas and killing legitimate storefronts.

Gamer's won't loose anything over this.. if anything they'll save a ton of money.
But companies like Visa, Steam, Mastercard, they stand to loose billions.

It's way too early for that kind of panic but... it's a possible scenario. Until now, every attempt to police entertainment shattered. Pokemon and DnD witch hunts accomplished nothing, Tipper Gore and Congress got schooled by Dee Snider when they tried to fight rock n' roll music, Jack Thompson didn't get video games banned... but this time, the OppFor has the money on their side. It's only a matter of what their objectives are and when they will consider them as accomplished.

From Collective Shout's release on the situation, they went to payment processors because Steam refused to act for like a month.

It was only when the payment processors got involved and threatened to cutoff payments for everything did steam act.

1 horror game got removed from Steam, it was called Ville Exhumed

I keep looking for some games if they are still there, even games with moderate fan service, you never know with this situation.

Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

It's way too early for that kind of panic but... it's a possible scenario. Until now, every attempt to police entertainment shattered. Pokemon and DnD witch hunts accomplished nothing, Tipper Gore and Congress got schooled by Dee Snider when they tried to fight rock n' roll music, Jack Thompson didn't get video games banned... but this time, the OppFor has the money on their side. It's only a matter of what their objectives are and when they will consider them as accomplished.

Gamer's who have been around long enough tend to remember the war on violent video games, this is a continuation of the same agenda.

It's not the first time Collective Shout have gone after video games, they've gone after many of the same franchises the war on violent video games did back in the 80's.

They share the same goals, porn games just give them a better target to get their foot in the door.
Going after Payment processors was a new strategy that paid off for them.
It won't be long before they switch targets back to violent games and abuse their new strategy to finally get their way.

It's simply pattern recognition.

Not jus thtat, if the screen act passes, see link below, youll lose multiplayer games as well, without risking your safety and rights anyway.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/737/text

I'm gonna say something most people don't want to hear, but piracy is going to make a huge comeback because of what is happening now. I guarantee you it now, if more games are censored or removed from Steam because of Collectivist Shout, most will abandon purchasing games altogether and just pirate the heck out of them.

This is just the start of it. Angry parents and right-wing governments are starting to clamp down on the Internet. It will only get worse.

Originally posted by Outpost 31 Helicopter Pilot:

I'm gonna say something most people don't want to hear, but piracy is going to make a huge comeback because of what is happening now. I guarantee you it now, if more games are censored or removed from Steam because of Collectivist Shout, most will abandon purchasing games altogether and just pirate the heck out of them.

why would it make a huge comeback when the only games to be removed are for a very niche community that doesnt sell many copies?

Originally posted by Outpost 31 Helicopter Pilot:

I'm gonna say something most people don't want to hear, but piracy is going to make a huge comeback because of what is happening now. I guarantee you it now, if more games are censored or removed from Steam because of Collectivist Shout, most will abandon purchasing games altogether and just pirate the heck out of them.

No. The games will be on shady websites to buy for probably crypto only.
Basically repeat the prohibition. People still drank alcohol back then. They just got it from whatever source.

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

If the group "Collective Shout" gets their way, yes.

if leftest democrats who support collective shout and are the only reason collective shout gets their way. its to late to pretend to be (D)iffrent you arent

Originally posted by Pocahawtness:

This is just the start of it. Angry parents and right-wing governments are starting to clamp down on the Internet. It will only get worse.

its literally austrilian feminists. the "right wing" will also be unsuprisingly feminists and other garbage women who support it for obvious reason.

there is no right wing in this. it will always be the left wing feminists who aborted the children they claim to be protecting. says literally ever observable metric including the words out of their own mouth where they say the right will lose because women love abortion.