Official statement on Steam being pressured to remove offensive content

[Finarfin]

I mean, I'm forced to side with Trickster and Contrarian here Rusty. Banning tags is exactly what you're supposed to do to clean up unwanted content

no, I want a platform without porn on it by default
I'm allowed to demand good things

Yeah, and I'd never tell you otherwise. I was just explaining why I think Steam is the way it is.

Side note: you are correct that some games are tagged improperly. Those actually are removed or get tagged if they get reported enough or enough people add a particular tag.

It's annoying but it also means that most games are tagged correctly a few days after release.

Until your porn-free alternative exists, console yourself with this: Steam still having porn games means the feminists haven't succeeded in subverting Valve yet. So there's a silver lining.

Doesn't the filter also affect games that get community labels? Like if a game like Witcher 3 gets the hentai tag often enough?

In theory yes. But people can also downvote the hentai tag (most people would agree that the Witcher series isn't hentai), so it gets removed again.

Saw this problem with Tarkov.

Unrelated to the thread but regarding Escape from Tarkov:
If you purchased the game during its early access phase on the Battlestate Games website for the Battlestate Launcher, and now a Steam version is released, do you expect or demand a Steam key for the game? Or do you understand that, since you bought it through their website for their launcher, you wouldn't receive a Steam key, as it was never promised?

[SoLong]

Saw this problem with Tarkov.

Ah. Are you aware of Battlestate Games's (the dev's) behavior?

In April 2024, Battlestate Games announced a new purchasable version of the game referred to as the Unheard Edition, which includes features such as exclusive equipment and access to an exclusive PvE server. In January of the same year, another version of Escape from Tarkov, the limited-time Edge of Darkness Edition, which was cheaper than the new edition, had been discontinued. Prior to that, Battlestate Games had stated that owners of the Edge of Darkness Edition would receive "free access to all subsequent DLCs" for the game. With the announcement of the Unheard Edition (whose PvE mode was labeled a "feature" and thus non-DLC), this was then revised to six months of free access, resulting in criticism from the game's player base and accusations of turning the game into a pay-to-win title. On 27 April, the developers announced that purchasers of the Edge of Darkness Edition would now be given full access to the PvE mode once version 1.0 of the game released, slated for later in the year, and that those players would also be granted a 50% discount in upgrading to The Unheard Edition should they choose to do so.

The reason the game has those tags is because the fanbase absolutely loathes those devs for lying and milking them for money. The only reason they didn't get sued for wrongful advertising is because they are Russia-based.

Those tags are there so the game gets caught in filters, and angry customers put them there since the devs delete negative comments.

Yes, this is technically an abuse of the tagging system, you're correct. However, this is hardly a representative case for the above reasons.

[KOS-MOS]

Funny thing is I already have a bank card attached to my account.

I just did it again and Steam took £1 to verify it, but the message still shows and I still can't access Grand Tits Adventure [18+]!

"Grand Tits Adventure"

[KOS-MOS]

I'm against censorship no matter what. If some brainrot wants to fried their last brain cell playing porn games, I don't care. No censorship, total freedom of creativity and expression. Seems like I'm more american than the americans on this.

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm against censorship no matter what.

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

[KOS-MOS]

I'm against censorship no matter what.

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

I don't care. I'm not going to play that, doesn't matter.

[RangerBoo]

kiwifarms has a foid issue

You want to know what is really funny?

You want to know what's even funnier? Josh ended up covering you getting Internet lumberjacked by your mother on the latest MATI and commented that it sounds like you've gotten very fat
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-synth ... t-22508393

Hi Daniel. Still salty at me for me calling you a pedophile? You still are. By the way, the man I was mad at is a guy who was crying to my brother that I was hurting his internet "career" and told my brother that he "is kind of a big deal on the internet". Also, still defending Josh Moon the pedo defender Daniel? Did you know that Josh Moon is banning people who bring up the fact that Warski was grooming a 15 year old and justifying hebephilia.

Also, calling me fat? That is rich from a man who told Jesse from Podawful that "he has never been a normal weight".

[CornCake]

You want to know what is really funny?

You want to know what's even funnier? Josh ended up covering you getting Internet lumberjacked by your mother on the latest MATI and commented that it sounds like you've gotten very fat
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/the-synth ... t-22508393

Hi Daniel. Still salty at me for me calling you a pedophile? You still are. By the way, the man I was mad at is a guy who was crying to my brother that I was hurting his internet "career" and told my brother that he "is kind of a big deal on the internet". Also, still defending Josh Moon the pedo defender Daniel? Did you know that Josh Moon is banning people who bring up the fact that Warski was grooming a 15 year old and justifying hebephilia.

Also, calling me fat? That is rich from a man who told Jesse from Podawful that "he has never been a normal weight".

Is KiwiFarms some kind of site for edgy New Zealander's?

[RangerBoo]

Is KiwiFarms some kind of site for edgy New Zealander's?

It is a site for parasocial people like Daniel who believe the internet is "a big deal" and is run by a manlet who claims he "has never been a normal weight" while defending his friends who get caught grooming underage teenagers online while creating revenge fantasies about how he will kill Sam Hyde.

[CornCake]

Is KiwiFarms some kind of site for edgy New Zealander's?

It is a site for parasocial people like Daniel who believe the internet is "a big deal" and is run by a manlet who claims he "has never been a normal weight" while defending his friends who get caught grooming underage teenagers online while creating revenge fantasies about how he will kill Sam Hyde.

Sounds like a site to stay away from. You should do that miss, and if harassment ends up here let the mods take care of it instead of havering.

[RangerBoo]

Sounds like a site to stay away from. You should do that miss, and if harassment ends up here let the mods take care of it instead of havering.

Daniel has been harassing me for years now. He comes here whenever his master Null, aka Josh Moon, gives him the okay to do so believing that he will make people here hate me, chase me off the site and that Josh will welcome him back with open arms to the Farms and make him a mod for being a "hero". I want nothing to do with those people anymore. Charlie Kirk's death made me realize just how evil and toxic some people are. I don't want to associate with the likes that get off on nihilism and suffering. I also don't want to give a **** about ******** on the internet anymore. The internet isn't real life. What the **** do those freaks know about me and who I am in real life? Like Charlie said, when you hang out with people in real life and form relationships with them you begin to not care about stuff on the internet. It is nothing. If anything, I feel sorry for the likes of Null and Cheeseknife. These are broken men who, as Podawful said, are made of the internet. They have no real life friends, no girlfriend or wife, and no children. Their life is the internet and revolves around the internet. I can't think of anything more sadder. If anything I pray for men like Null and Cheeseknife to one day find a life more fulfilling that will get them out of the nihilist hole that they made for themselves and find happiness.

[CornCake]

Sounds like a site to stay away from. You should do that miss, and if harassment ends up here let the mods take care of it instead of havering.

Daniel has been harassing me for years now. He comes here whenever his master Null, aka Josh Moon, gives him the okay to do so believing that he will make people here hate me, chase me off the site and that Josh will welcome him back with open arms to the Farms and make him a mod for being a "hero". I want nothing to do with those people anymore. Charlie Kirk's death made me realize just how evil and toxic some people are. I don't want to associate with the likes that get off on nihilism and suffering. I also don't want to give a **** about ******** on the internet anymore. The internet isn't real life. What the **** do those freaks know about me and who I am in real life? Like Charlie said, when you hang out with people in real life and form relationships with them you begin to not care about stuff on the internet. It is nothing. If anything, I feel sorry for the likes of Null and Cheeseknife. These are broken men who, as Podawful said, are made of the internet. They have no real life friends, no girlfriend or wife, and no children. Their life is the internet and revolves around the internet. I can't think of anything more sadder. If anything I pray for men like Null and Cheeseknife to one day find a life more fulfilling that will get them out of the nihilist hole that they made for themselves and find happiness.

Lass the more you take the bait by typing paragraphs in response to them the more they goon to it. If their lives are so sad, leave them to their demise and move on, we have more important problems to worry about than basement dwellers.

[RangerBoo]

Lass the more you take the bait by typing paragraphs in response to them the more they goon to it. If their lives are so sad, leave them to their demise and move on, we have more important problems to worry about than basement dwellers.

You're right. Thank you and the guys here for hearing me out. Lets go back to talking and joking about more fun stuff like how furry gooners are getting ****** that gay furry hentai games are getting censored and pulled off Steam.

[A Chinese opium den]

This thread is about steam.

[GhostShiroyama]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

[CornCake]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

[A Chinese opium den]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

***.

[DecadeRiptide]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

Same
You can use VPN and make an alt account to browse for games

[DecadeRiptide]

I'm against censorship no matter what.

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

You ever played modded Skyrim ?

[DecadeRiptide]

I'm against censorship no matter what. If some brainrot wants to fried their last brain cell playing porn games, I don't care. No censorship, total freedom of creativity and expression. Seems like I'm more american than the americans on this.

I agree. Nothing even wrong with porn or nudity in games imho.

[GhostShiroyama]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

***.

Hey, I like what I like, sue me.

[GhostShiroyama]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

Funny enough I recently built one in Fallout 76. I guess I have to lock myself in my own jail

[Pickle Rick]

Wow, if only that fat girl ran her feet as much as her mouth

[CornCake]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/gam ... oper-says/

No more gooner updates it seems

[rusty_shackleford]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/gam ... oper-says/

No more gooner updates it seems

They're censoring it for the wrong reasons, bring the porn back then censor it because porn is bad not because it offends foids

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I just want to see anime boobies on my phone again while browsing steam :[

Just use twitter, more variety and quality in the anime aesthetics.

[Ultraporing]

So I did write an Email to the EU Commission Finances Department at the end of July. With the intent of making them aware of the whole ******** censorship of games and mafia tactics of these payment providers.
I did never think they even read it, but turns out they did. And Answered yesterday, nearly 2 months later. And there is hope if we (all ppl ****** off at that ********) play it smart and adhere to their legal guidelines of raising a formal complaint with enough evidence. Preferably written by a lawyer and no idiots behaving like morons trying to help. You know how ppl on the internet get, yelling and making trouble. This would only weaken our point and prevent us from taken seriously.
I doubt Visa and Mastercard can just ignore Audits of their Business and official investigations by a Continental government body. Maybe it'll get them to back off with their ********.

Anyways here are the email and Reply I got. Happy reading, also wrote that Email in the evening ****** off xD.

[Niggler]

I'm against censorship no matter what.

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

yes

[Tweed]

I'm against censorship no matter what.

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

yes

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[Niggler]

so you'd be ok with a game that is basically just interactive sex with a donkey?

yes

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yes