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Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What kind of stuff, specifically, do they censor?

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago) (1 children)

Examples given in the article are:

Historically, Valve's policy has only banned games that are "illegal or straight-up trolling," but that has opened the people running Steam to an endless series of subjective value judgements. For years, sporadic reports emerged of developers making anime-style smut getting ghosted by Valve – presumably for the genre's association with high school settings and underage characters. Similarly, Steam took direct action to pull a cheap, trashy visual novel called Rape Day from the platform in 2019.

Fuck that article BTW, pretending Steam is in the wrong and the quack would have "saved them some headaches".

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured they meant by "censorship".

If Valve doesn't want to sell you loli visual novels, then that's their prerogative. Can't say that I blame them.