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The current situation, whilst a slippery slope, is the best way this could have gone (outside of it never happening to begin with. The games removed were an incredibly niche and socially questionable part of the adult only genre. They will likely not be missed.
If and when this is pushed further, and I do stress the "if", that's when we need to start expecting Valve to push back, or risk the total collapse of the gaming industry over fake moral outrage from those few who don't even play them to begin with.
Watch it closely, but now is not the time for true outrage.
Risk losing most of their business.
Or.
Lose rape and incest "games" for a tiny audience.
Easy choice.
No need to spam, best of luck, blocked, etc.
It is NEVER irrelevant whether or not something is illegal. The LAW is the measure. Allowing corporations to dictate what other companies can and cannot sell IS ILLEGAL. They do NOT have the right to control the market in any way shape or form. These guys caved to crazy wenches in Australia. There is no justification for what Visa and MasterCard are doing. None. Also, the games currently being removed are also psycho-horror games, not vixen-games. Valve will not push back. They have already caved.
If what they've done is illegal, then take them to court over it. Talk to a lawyer. Do the leg work.
And no, legality isn't the only measure. Valve are allowed to dictate what games are allowed on their store outside of those that are illegal to sell. It's their platform, they can do what they wish as far as this is concerned.
Payment processors don't want to be associated with content that may tarnish their brand through association (even though most people never knew these games existed).
Again, if what they've done is illegal, take them to court.
It's an argument about inappropriate material and this is largely between parents and action groups and governments .. deciding what is and what is not appropriate for a games platform. Let them get on with it.
Steam handles this like it handled everything from day 1:
They take the easiest path to make the most profit with the least possible problems.
It's been like that since 2017 and now you suddenly care?
But they do have the right to choose to not to be associated with rape and incest porn.
Or, that group just brought to their attention content that they would have objected to long ago had they known it was there.
I'm just concerned about all the perfectly normal games that have something technically adult in them. There are some boobs in The Witcher 3. The horror. You can bang women but it's not like you see much.
It's not a porn game.
Well, they're affected by the other issue, the stupid online child safety act or whatever it's called. And the European versions which are lurking in the shadows.
They didn't cave, they wanted to do it. They've been doing ♥♥♥♥ like this for decades to anything they view as 'distasteful', weed shops are a good example of this.