HuniePop and Other Adult Games Facing Removal From Steam Store

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It seems that Valve is on a crusade to remove games from Steam that are claimed to include pornographic content. Not that this is a bad thing because it is their house, so their rules, but some developers are crying foul because they don't believe their content is pornographic. However, some of these same developers are removing the "bad" content so they can continue to be sold on Steam. I don't play any of these games so I can't opine on whether the potential bans are valid or not. What does the [H] think?

HuniePop is a game that mixes dating sim elements with a match 3 puzzle game. Part of the dating sim elements include graphic scenes depicting nudity. However, developers of similar games stated that Valve had a policy of allowing this content so long as the developers distributed it in a separate file. Valve has seemingly moved away from that stance last year, mandating that developers can no longer distribute uncensor patches via the Steam Community or provide instructions on how to install them.
 
i don't think i will ever understand how showing cleavage is not ok in games, but showing cleavage on a magazine/tv is ok. For that matter, ultra violent games is ok.. cleavage.. no no no no no, think of the children!
 
I don't think they should remove most of these games. I get that Steam doesn't want (and has never been) a place to sell majorly sexually explicit "porn games", but most of these titles do not quality - at least in the forms which are dispensed on Steam. What's more is that titles like HuniePop, that VR girlfriend game from Japanese devs "imagine', and a TON of "Visual Novels", often sell a version of their game on Steam to comply with their restrictions on sexual content, but then allow the use of a user-applied "uncensored" patch - sometimes its even allowed/made/encouraged by the devs . Personally I think this is a fantastic compromise, where a game can benefit from Steam's reach and scale, while not having to be completely censored, thus making a wholly different and lesser version of the game on Steam which is a pain for both users to buy and devs to maintain. The owner of the game gets a supported title and can by their own volition add/patch/mod whatever they want and Steam should rightly have no say. Think about it - Skyrim and Fallout have been modded with all kinds of sexually explicit content but neither Steam nor Bethesda steps in and stops it; nor should they!

Games like HuniePop, VR Kanojo and VNs may be controversial, but they are -within their genres - often rather well made titles that could very easily be considered good games. There are hundreds of asset-flipping, bare Unity/Unreal engine titles and poorly put together pieces of crap sold on Steam that are far more justifiably pruned from its ecosystem; I'd want Steam to focus on there first. Leave games like HuniePop alone so long as they stay on the "right side of the Adult boundary" that Steam has long asked. Don't start moving the line of acceptability simply because a few people get bent out of shape - Steam never does this when it comes to violence for instance. HuniePop/HunieCam and others have long operated on Steam acceptably within TOS - lets not give them a hard time.
 
So Steam has a system that allows you to list by genre... presumably they could also create it so a parent who's supplying the credit card info can also lock their kid out of certain games, now I'm not one to play games like Hunnie Pop (don't even want to know) but jesus christ let people decide what they want.
 
If they are going to be prudish then they might start looking at violence also...

Why don't they just protect their store from poor quality instead of trying to tell people what they should or should not play/buy...
 
BettiePage said:
Finally removing the smut from Steam...
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This irony, right? Just checking, 'cause I'm a little slow some days.

P.S. Actually, I'm a little slow most days.

P.P.S. Actually, saying I'm slow is ... I'm not sure, let me think about it. An analogy for slow ...
 
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Valve is turning into Apple with their vague rules about apps. Some religious nut jobs must have their panties in a bunch and are spamming the report button for these games.
 
lucidrenegade said:
Valve is turning into Apple with their vague rules about apps. Some religious nut jobs must have their panties in a bunch and are spamming the report button for these games.
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probably. I didn't know a couple of the titles mentioned, so I did a quick youtube search and rolled (quickly) across a few videos.

Ummm, You get people with less clothing on TV regularly than I saw in those games. (Not to mention, those puzzle style games tend to be REALLY boring.)

Everything I saw there was less sexual than what's in a Victoria Secret catalog.
 
Seriously, just put in an AO or Porn section on steam and let it be walled off already. Even the compromise of these devs, developing a censored version just to comply with steam rules then having for the user to go find the "official" uncensor patches is just a stupid waste of time and a problem. Blocking it off already uncensored in it's own section the the simplest and most effective solution and you can block it client side and not even have the section show up if you are a parent and want to limit your kids.

The big problem as it is now is the devs make a censored version to comply with the steam rules, then they have a patch to uncensor it. So any one not technically better than their kids can still buy the games for their kids thinking it'll be fine then the kids go out and get an uncensor patch then the parents freak out when they catch them. The way it is now is just problematic.
 
I seem to remember I posted this a little while back
Michael Homan
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Kanojo VR and VR Together Asian schoolgirl VR on Steam? Hmm sounds like only a short step to soft core porn here. I am really surprised that Steam of all digital distribution stores would sell this stuff. They better watch their back or big Gestapo will put on their boots. The problem I would be concerned about is the loss of everyones games if Steam was made out to be a potential porn peddler and shut down like Backpage. Don't bet it could not happen. Gabe better wake up. Maybe steam users need to address this.

Gee looks like Valve started to be concerned .....
 
Granted it's a fuzzy line, but I think people here are confusing graphic pornography with nudity or a little skin.

This seems to be about selling a censored game and then releasing a patch to show some 15 year old with massive tits take a 20 inch dick. Not some softcore thing like Witcher or a little cleavage.

In my opinion they can either create a separate platform altogether or they can remove it. I don't mind not having Dad Fucker 4000 mixed in with Super Mega Baseball when I'm browsing games.
 
Need an example image to fully understand definition of pornography in these games
 
ah the slippery slope.

why is steam caving?

gabe is literally a fucking billionaire he doesn't need to listen to these assholes.

what are they gonna do not buy games?

oh wait they probably don't.
 
I dont get the interest in those games, they are clearly not good and if I want to see boobies I can do better.
 
hesho said:
i don't think i will ever understand how showing cleavage is not ok in games, but showing cleavage on a magazine/tv is ok. For that matter, ultra violent games is ok.. cleavage.. no no no no no, think of the children!
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America's industrial military complex needs the country in perpetual war. No nudity is because God will think you are nasty.
 
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