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That, and IMO, when someone uses sex to sell a game, more often than not, it's very shallow and terrible. Now a good game with a sex scene in it, like Mass Effect or something, that's probably a different story. How you would actually come up with a good wording in guidelines for this tho.... I dunno. They might say "case by case basis" or something.

these types of games do not interest me, but why limit those who do like them? these games are not effecting you, you're not being forced to play them or buy them. just continue playing the games that do interest you.

Because having a store page full of anime porn is not exactly the most enticing way to get people to come to Steam? It's disastrous for PR and there's already enough stupid shovelware on Steam already that it is hampering indie developers who want to release legitimate games.

If Joe Schmoe releases an Indie Game, his game has to compete with the 3+ anime porn VNs that come out every week that flood everybody's store pages. It's hard for J.S. to sell his indie game, and lessens the likelyhood of him being able to make another.

Personally, i hate steam as a whole, and hope that it either gets completely changed or dies.

Eh, I like how easy and convenient steam delivers its games. The UI is also nice and easy to use, and I like the IM feature it has, and of course the multiplayer stuff like quick joining games is good too.

The only real problem I have with Steam, is the tons and tons of shovelware games that need to be gotten rid of.

Joe Schmoe can compete by making a better game, as by your standards these are "bad" games and competition only leads to better made games. When did Steam become a family-friendly, all ages platform? There are plenty of games targeted for older audiences besides sexually explicit or hinting games, which give a NSFW warning before you access the game's page, as for these anime games.

I don't think you're understanding the problem and how the Steam Store works. It doesn't matter how good your game is, if you're a no-name indie developer, you could make the most awesome game ever, and it might take months before word-of-mouth spreads if the Steam Store is absolutely drowned out with bad games. And it doesn't matter if it's anime porn or unit-z flips, the problem is the same.

How much exposure you get to the public in your first two weeks of launching a game is rather important. You want people to be able to see it.... which they won't if the store is flooded with crappy VNs every week.

which would be rated down negatively, right? you can filter games by most recommended.

Except these anime VNs usually have enough fans that they don't get rate-bombed... and they will still show up on peoples store fronts.

That, and again, maybe Valve wants to move things towards a more family-friendly environment? *shrug* It's their company.

This isn't the first time they banned games before... remember Hatred?

If they have enough fans, then are they actually "bad" games if enough people enjoy them?

rip my alerts

Well in the end it's up to Valve and maybe they just wanted to clean up some. *shrug* Not up to us to judge. We play by their rules or we don't play at all and apparently a lot of people agree with the change.