Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition
Bubbey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know it’s downvote central, but I’ve been on the “No Porn on Steam” train forever. Ever since the introduction to the service it has inundated so much of the “Top Selling” “New & Trending” etc. Steam is for games, porn is for porn. Super annoying to sift through it when I’m looking for a new game, and I have my age settings so I can see adult games like GTA/Dishonored, not “Super Hentai Bejeweled 3000”.
steam is for games… no, it isn’t really. steam has been distributing non game software for ages.
porn games are games so even if steam is for games it should have porn games.
i don’t care for porn games but I’ve filtered them out so who cares what others do with their time
… and I have my age settings so I can see adult games like GTA/Dishonored, not “Super Hentai Bejeweled 3000”.
The former belong to the M rated category while the hypothetical latter would belong to the Adults Only category. As others have pointed out, you can hide adult games and still see other games with violence and mature themes. Steam classifies M-rated games and AO-rated games differently.
One of the biggest problems is “what is porn?”. Time and again a clear definition eludes us and it comes down to personal perception. What one group of people think is porn is not to a different group. Also something to think and reflect about, why are you okay with a store selling intense and graphic violence, but not sex?
Then we get to the fact that it isn’t Steam calling the shots on this, not really. It is payment processors. The real outrage here is that Steam is not getting to decide what they do and don’t sell, and it isn’t a legal problem either. It is an arbitrary choice by the middle man monopoly. And there is nothing stopping their rules removing your ability to buy GTA or Dishonored next.
I think the backlash would be a lot less if this was truly a Steam decision. There would be people upset still, but I don’t think to the same degree. The massive outrage is that stores all over, including as big as Steam, are being blackmailed into making these changes.
I believe this group tried to remove GTA V and Detroit become human.
They succeeded in getting GTA5 pulled from the shelves of two of the largest physical distributors in Australia.
Excuse me sir, but Super Hentai Bejeweled 3000 is one of the best games of our times.
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Just turn the adult stuff off yo.
So turn off the check box that shows you porn games…
You can disable showing adult games from the store in the store preferences.
store.steampowered.com/account/preferences
This setting is apparently disabled by default, so at some point you enabled it.
Yeah, I think he enabled it. It never showed porn games for me.
Certainly there should be better search tools and personal curation on Steam. If you don’t want to see it you should be able to easily filter it.
Is it more about the porn or the shovelware for you? That is to ask: would you play a porn game that is sufficiently story-driven and acclaimed?
Ehat you said reminded me of Fate Stay Night, never played it, but the story was so good they made anime and manga for it, without the sex scenes of course.
Would I play a game that has sex/nudity in it? Yes. Do I want games that are specifically pornography on steam. No.
Do I want games that are specifically pornography on steam. No.
Well, some people do want that.
So, in compromise, Steam gives you the option of not seeing pornography. It even sets that option by default.
The only way you’re ever going to see pornography is if you specifically check the ‘Show Adult Only Sexual Content’ in the Mature Content Filtering of Store Preferences in your Account Settings.
Well, some people do want that.
There should be a separate platform for that, similar to how you wouldn’t go on YouTube expecting to see videos from PornHub.
Or its sequel, Futanari Tentacle Schoolgirl 4000
JoYo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
“I’ll know it when I see it” has gotta be the most vibes way to tell people they’re degenerates.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s also the US legal standard for obscenity laws, unfortunately.