Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What you said and what you meant were two different things.

  The wording of the OG comment original comment absolutely lent itself to conspiracy theory level inference that it was steams fault.

  They not only didn’t actually answer the questions I asked. They claimed “nobody is talking about it” which is demonstrably not true.

  Further, they went out of their way to play what about blah, but didn’t give and explaination of how that related to the conversation being had or their original point.

  Then you show up with language that could be taken one of two ways, and when I respond with proof from what I took from what you said “I now have reading comprehension problems” because you "didn’t mean what they said in relation to payment processors (which only entered the conversation because one person who was not the OG commenter brought it up), and I continued the conversation in that vein.

  So either you chose to answer me on the wrong part of the thread, or it’s your own fault you were misunderstood.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The wording at the top level was “No one’s saying anything about any of it, which feels like that’s on advice from their legal counsel.” It seems like the main confusion was on the implication of the term “No one”. I inferred from the reference to legal counsel, they’re mainly talking about storefronts, not gamers, being silent. As such, I’m guessing you were eager to show how loud people (gamers) are on the issue; but that probably wasn’t the intended meaning.

    In fact, I took the initial claim to mean the opposite; with Github taking action against Adult games in the same form as an attack that took place on Steam, it’s suggesting a common perpetrator. But I could safely assume most commenters here know Steam is not owned by Microsoft; hence that blame automatically goes outside of that domain.

    Even if you didn’t take that implication, you can just look at the simple statements made; “Hey, this is like that other thing that happened. What’s in common here?”

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One of the articles I linked you to had not just Steam but other payment processors talking about it.

      So are we talking about Steam making statements about why they refused to accept the game Horses on their platform, or are we talking about payment processors? Because the thread you started responding to me in is the one about payment processors and as a result that is the vein in which my responses have been directed. And since news outlets have been very outspoken about the likelihood that Horses was refused due to payment processors pressuring Steam to better adhere to their Terms for content sold, it was reasonable to assume that that’s what you meant.

      If you would like to talk about Steam’s removal of other games, or you would like to talk about Horse’s rejection specifically, you’re going to have to say so.

      Microsoft isn’t selling products on GitHub. They bought it to have control over open source projects and code.

      Even if they were going to sell ad space that’s still not the same conversation as the one about payment processors. At best the only similarity might just be that MS might find porn content to be detrimental to their image. Because that’s the BS reason payment aggregators gave for not allowing porn content every time this has come up.

      But MS has been disallowing nudity, pornography, and other adult content on their products and ad aggregation service for more than a decade now. So either this was house keeping, it was an afterthought, or someone complained. And considering just how little MS cares about the complaints of consumers and consumer groups normally, I doubt it’s the latter.

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