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So, I think this article should be read due how Steam is going crazier and more pro-SJW lately despite attempting to say otherwise, as well as mentioning some titles that were censored for no or vague reasons:

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/01/my-erotic-summer-banned-from-steam/74797/

Bonus: https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com/
https://everythingdenuvo.wordpress.com/
I don't know what it got banned,but steam was always antiporn. I don't see that as sjw.
 

lightbane

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Try reading the article I posted, it mentions a few things. Also, Steam was slowly but surely introducing adult games such as the Evenicle from Alicesoft... But suddenly they backpedaled and went the other way around (except for one blatant pro-gay VN game that approved, suspiciously enough).
 

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Maybe Gabe walked in on his son playing one of these games, and well... the rest is history.
 

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So, I think this article should be read due how Steam is going crazier and more pro-SJW lately despite attempting to say otherwise, as well as mentioning some titles that were censored for no or vague reasons:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/01/my-erotic-summer-banned-from-steam/74797/

I mean, Steam said they were going to ban stuff with underage looking characters.

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I'm not sure anyone would be able to convince anyone that this character is 18 years or older.
His description is:

"A younger friend who views himself as the leader of the pack in the rural village. He wants to become the hero's friend and go on little adventures. Although disgusted with girls, he seems to get excited when he runs into things that he probably shouldn't see."

Even if they're slightly younger, given the combination of the description of the main character being:

"A bright boy was sent to live in a country home during the summer vacation. He loves to play freely. His interest in the opposite sex is rapidly increasing."

We can infer that the main character is also underage, given the relative age of his friend and that description of "his interest is rapidly increasing", meaning at best, he's going through puberty.

Try reading the article I posted, it mentions a few things. Also, Steam was slowly but surely introducing adult games such as the Evenicle from Alicesoft... But suddenly they backpedaled and went the other way around (except for one blatant pro-gay VN game that approved, suspiciously enough).

There are countless adult games being approved for Steam monthly; they outright said they would allow anything, and for the most part, they've stuck to that.

While they did go back on that some with banning stuff set in high school settings and with underage characters, that's no surprise to anyone in this industry or living in the West and practically everyone working on adult games expected that; literally no one will sell or deal with anything with underage characters and sexuality for obvious reasons, one being that it's technically illegal and people have been arrested for it in the USA/Canada.

However, there are games with bestiality, rape, tentacles, monsters, incest, you name it on Steam that are doing perfectly fine, uncensored, selling great, and have been up for a long time without any issue. Just don't have blatantly underage characters in your game or characters set in high school settings and you're fine.
 

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I mean, Steam said they were going to ban stuff with underage looking characters.

I thought they said they were going to be banning games that "were considered to be trolling", not stuff like that.

literally no one will sell or deal with anything with underage characters and sexuality for obvious reasons, one being that it's technically illegal and people have been arrested for it in the USA/Canada.

That was likely to happen yes, but I hoped you bothered to read the article beyond the obvious title, as it mentions some examples that were banned/were delayed, despite not being set in high-schools and/or have erotic content at all.

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It didn’t take long for Valve to start selectively banning games from the store, including the all-ages versions of games like Hello, Goodbye, or the game about a married couple featuring a bullied woman that the player character ends up taking care of called My Bullied Bride.

Other games were also affected during the ban wave, such as Niplheim’s Hunter, but after Valve originally requested that the game remove an entire character from the story, they later contacted the publisher HappyHand and stated that there was a “misunderstanding”.

ust don't have blatantly underage characters in your game or characters set in high school settings and you're fine.

Usually, but then there are cases like this one:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/852910/sweet_pool/?curator_clanid=25144145

My point is that the censorship can be qute arbitrary. At least in your case you have alternatives if Steam didn't like your game for some reason.
 

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HentaiWriter if you ever want to reply to that old message, even with like a 2 liner, I'm still interested. Just in case. It's a long shot and you likely never will, but in case you're like "the guy prolly forgot he even asked", I didn't.
 

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Can we discuss child sex games in a different thread please?

Infinitron

Agree, I keep checking this thread whenever it pops up hoping for some entertaining indie drama shadenfreude, only to be reminded that it was derailed into this shit.
From post #128 onward it could be moved into new thread and post #128 would serve as a very informative opening post, preferably in a weeboo subforum.
 

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I thought they said they were going to be banning games that "were considered to be trolling", not stuff like that.

They said they were going to ban illegal content, to my knowledge; underage content is considered illegal in America.

That was likely to happen yes, but I hoped you bothered to read the article beyond the obvious title, as it mentions some examples that were banned/were delayed, despite not being set in high-schools and/or have erotic content at all.

Yes, I did read the article.

- Hello, Goodbye: https://vndb.org/v5316 (High school setting, Loli-aged character)
- My Bullied Bride: https://vndb.org/v19178 (High school setting which is made obvious if you look at the CGs)
- Imolicious: https://vndb.org/v24721 (High school setting, possible loli given that (to my knowledge) the MC is 18 and in high school, his younger sister is also in there, so with 9 months between pregnancies on average, plus some downtime...)
- Key to Home: https://vndb.org/v22252 (Elementary school setting, blackmail, brothel, prostitution stuff even though this may not involve the underage characters, the CGs are fairly suggestive even if fully clothed)
- Maomao Discovery Team: The article about it literally says it's partially about "watching a loli pleasure herself or engaging in copulation with the loli named Maomao".
- Cross Love: https://vndb.org/v24719 (High school setting)
- Victory Project: Article on this also says "It’s entirely possible that the loli content in the game could be what’s holding it up from release."

So every game on that article that I saw linked either had loli content or was in a high school (or elementary school) setting.

For Niplheim's Hunter, I covered that earlier in the thread, but essentially they wrote something like "All characters in the game are 18+ of age even if the game says otherwise" (not the exact quote, but the general gist of it AFAIK). This is basically the same as going up to a cop and saying "Officer, I don't have any loaded guns on me, even if that huge bulge in my pocket looks really suspiciously like a gun." Even if it's not a gun, it's going to get the cop to search you because you just drew his attention to you/the bulge because of your comments.

Usually, but then there are cases like this one:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/852910/sweet_pool/?curator_clanid=25144145
My point is that the censorship can be qute arbitrary. At least in your case you have alternatives if Steam didn't like your game for some reason.

There's definitely cases that slip through the cracks on any service, but it doesn't mean they're immune or they'll never get checked; it may be just that Steam is currently blockading off newer games while their policy spreads throughout the internet, and then they'll slowly work backwards into their existing catalogue. (I know this game got submitted to Steam only recently, but I just mean new in terms of release date of the original version.)

HentaiWriter if you ever want to reply to that old message, even with like a 2 liner, I'm still interested. Just in case. It's a long shot and you likely never will, but in case you're like "the guy prolly forgot he even asked", I didn't.

I absolutely didn't forget :P just been really busy with stuff still, but I will before the month's up!

Agree, I keep checking this thread whenever it pops up hoping for some entertaining indie drama shadenfreude, only to be reminded that it was derailed into this shit.
From post #128 onward it could be moved into new thread and post #128 would serve as a very informative opening post, preferably in a weeboo subforum.

Sounds fine to me, if the mods want to do that.
 

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Can we discuss child sex games in a different thread please?

Infinitron

Indeed. It started with some indie experiences and trainwrecks, and it transformed into weaboo nutaku developers experiences and ... more. 2 threads splits would be nice. 1 normal games up to 128 page? the rest for special weaboo people and the awesome totally not insane developers.
 

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