Steam ha🦩s just updated its publisher guidelines, prohibiting "Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam's payment processors and related card networks".
You can read the full guidelines .
In so many words: Visa and Mastercard now have sway over what games are allowed on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the platform. "In particular, certain kinds of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:adult only content." We're already seeing the new ru🐎les put into action, as , seeing a litany of titles delisted, such as "Sex Adventures - Incest Family", "Slave of the Police Officer", an♋d "Interactive Sex - Daddy Twins Incest" (pretty much any game with 'incest' or 'slave' in the title).
Steam Players Are Worried About How Much Power Is Being Given To Payment Processors
While removing these is a positive step towards cleaning the storefront of shovelware and some of it𝔉s more problematic games, , it's unlikely to end there. The adult industry has seen increasing pressure from card networks in recent years; "to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers", to appease "Our payment processing partners", while altogether.
As with all of those examples, the changes to Steam are proving an incredibly unpopular move already, with fans decrying that to allow a payment processing company to "dictate how other companies run their business", with some fearful that Visa and Mastercard will "want it all gone sooner or later". Others, like , worry that "Because queer history, sꦺex education, and mental health resources are ALREADY being declared 'adult content'," they could eventually be targeted.
Whether you like R-18 video games or not and whether you condone the sexual scenarios put forward by them - this new guideline is a very b🌊ig uncertainty that will certainly be felt by the NSFW game industry—u/atahutahatena.
Steam's new guidelines are incredibly vague—only noting that "certain types of adult-only content" may be taken issꦍue with, without ever explaining what that means or entails—so it remains to be seen what exactly card networks will flag on the storefront. If past examples are anything to go by, then it cou🍌ld hit the vast majority of "adult content", a conveniently malleable label. For now, though, only a very specific niche has been hit.
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- Valve
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- 𝔍 September 12, 2003 🏅
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