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Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com)
Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are "illegal, or straight up trolling," according to a statement from the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming company posted today. From a report: The announcement comes a week after Valve removed a controversial game that simulated school shootings, following a nationwide outcry to ban the title. Last month it also issued warnings to developers about adult content in games. In its blog post, Valve executive Erik Johnson writes that "Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this." "If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy," it reads. "If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable."
The extreme left and the game media (so in otherwords, also the extreme left) are trying to police anything and everything as triggering.
Can't have boobs in a game, can't have women in a game that look attractive, can't have weird hentai sex games (it's fiction you idiots, if you don't like it, don't buy or play it!) etc etc.
They continue to bray and whine and cry over any and everything in the last few years, getting worse and worse. Already the Japanese are starting to censor their shit as default before they even release stuff here, because they know the Western markets are full of easily triggered children.
Note: I do not play ANY of these goddamn games, I'm just so sick of the whining from these people.
If some idiot wants to play a Japanese tentacle in 18 year old girl in nuns outfit game, let him do it, these same people (at one point) used to argue "fuck the media! games do NOT cause violence, it's fiction!" - so what is it? Is the tentacle game making people want to go and tentacle girls or not?