In the last couple of months you saw lots of visual novel devs/publishers crying that Valve rejected their visual novels for "no apparent reason". SolPress blamed Steam for them losing money since they cant release their games on Steam, since they are rejected. If anyone doesnt know, Solpress focuses on VNs featuring kids/teens. Nekoworks is actually fearing "catgirls 4" is being banned too. People who dont know what that game is: "1 year old loli cats live with the owners. 18+ patches" "I wonder why? Why is Valve so unfair???"
In the last year those VN devs/publishers then tried to release the all ages version on Steam, the patch outside or on their website. But of course those patches are then also linked in the Steam community, sometimes even by the devs themselves. A lot of the rejections I saw, it was clear why they were rejected. Often having a loli character, original version 18+ etc. and devs/publishers are "I dont know why it was rejected." But in the onslaught of that, of course you will have games with perfectly normal content suddenly being rejected, because no one actually can be sure if its fine or not.
Maybe instead of trying to get loli VNs on Steam (and there are already enough because when Valve opened the 18+ gates, they didnt do a check unlike now), should have released normal VNs with adult characters. "You" muddied the waters yourself!
>In the last couple of months you saw lots of visual novel devs/publishers crying that Valve rejected their visual novels for "no apparent reason". >SolPress blamed Steam for them losing money since they cant release their games on Steam, since they are rejected. >If anyone doesnt know, Solpress focuses on VNs featuring kids/teens. >Nekoworks is actually fearing "catgirls 4" is being banned too. >People who dont know what that game is: "1 year old loli cats live with the owners. 18+ patches" >"I wonder why? Why is Valve so unfair???"
>In the last year those VN devs/publishers then tried to release the all ages version on Steam, the patch outside or on their website. But of course those patches are then also linked in the Steam community, sometimes even by the devs themselves. >A lot of the rejections I saw, it was clear why they were rejected. Often having a loli character, original version 18+ etc. and devs/publishers are "I dont know why it was rejected." >But in the onslaught of that, of course you will have games with perfectly normal content suddenly being rejected, because no one actually can be sure if its fine or not.
>Maybe instead of trying to get loli VNs on Steam (and there are already enough because when Valve opened the 18+ gates, they didnt do a check unlike now), should have released normal VNs with adult characters. "You" muddied the waters yourself!
unfortunately when it comes to banning games on steam, its just one person at valve can ban your game for any reason. it doesn't even have to be a loli.
Carson Smith
>VNs can't have school settings on Steam >Goodbye Volcano High is a VN with a school setting Time to save Steam.
Eli Brown
Imagine paying for a package consisting of drawn backgrounds with "anime_loli.png" over it and fiverr tier-voice acting.
So what you're saying is that you are okay with censorship for a product that you purchase. Duly noted, faggot.
Jayden Long
nice user, encourage censorship. sentitive fags like you are the reason this shit keeps happening, i hope you suffer a lot when they actually censor something you like. KYS
Joshua Gutierrez
I'm ok with VN trash having a hard time getting on Steam. The less, the better.
Drawings don't have agency. Drawings don't have feelings. Drawings don't have wants or desires. Drawings are not real people.
Jordan Scott
I’m okay with buying low tier H games outside of steam. Motherfuckers harkening for straight up porn games on steam are retards.
Justin Young
It took Gabe personally intervening to get Hatred reinstated on Steam years ago. The Key to Home was rated all ages and had absolutely no lewd content or 18Patch, but was banned as well without comment. All of this nonsensical gatekeeping mysteriously started just around the time Valve acquired the Camp Santo devs
Anyone that has faith in Steam in 2020 I'd recommend go buy Artifact
Asians love VNs but steam is the only way for them to buy VNs in region locked areas. So they're forced to release on steam, not being able to release on steam means many people in asia will never be able to play those VNs.
There are already straight up porn games on Steam. You don't get to open the gate a little and decide who is allowed in with arbitrary reasoning.
Adrian Martin
There’s a difference between censorship and loopholing porn games And openly hawking patches in the forums to get them on fucking steam retard.
The fuck kinda coombrian dipshit buys VNs on steam?
Liam Barnes
steam shouldn't sell visual novels at all
Wyatt Morales
Using loopholes and “patches” openly flaunting them in the forums. Just fucking buy them outside steam. Most of that garbage is on ichio or other storefronts now days. Buy from the creator don’t give steam the middle man fees dipshit.
Carson Peterson
Steam recently implemented a policy where you cannot resubmit a game that was previously rejected ever again. Companies are forced to completely change and butcher their games so they can get on steam.
So why is Goodbye Volcano High allowed? Why is Life is Strange allowed? Why is The Last of Us allowed? Why is Summer Memories allowed? Why is Kotodama allowed?
Nicholas Wright
It's okay when big budgeted western studios do it.
Mason Thompson
Yes, all homo sapiens do not have rights
Michael Wright
steam admins are feminist trannies
Carter Wright
>Using loopholes No, there are actual porn games without any alt. fan patches available on Steam right now.
Daniel White
Early titles that made it through the cracks that are causing all this adjustment shit in the first place. Those fuckers are more to blame than steam with this bullshit.
Leo Cruz
Why are people such pussies about fiction?
Sebastian Bennett
Summer Memories is a Japanese porn game and Kotodama is a cheap, shameless huniepop ripoff.
Mason Ward
“Fan patches” that are provided by the devs made by the devs that bring the game to OG 1.0
Dominic Smith
Steam unfairly targets all ages VNs with no sex scenes at all. It's completely random whether they get onto steam or not. It's awful.
Ian Edwards
Princess & Conquest was released months after several VNs were banned or fucked by Steam and its screenshots straight up have porn on the front page.
Kevin Lewis
Most of those don’t have any sexuality to them outside a fucking single kiss. LoU is Sony being hypocrites
Asher Sanchez
Can't they literally just change the name of the setting from "high school" to "college"?
Carson Perry
What are the chances that Steam will accept my dating sim where it is necessary to have rough sex with feminist girls from High Scholl to fix their heads?
Colton Williams
The amrilato case was insane. Even GOG accepted the game immediately with no issues whatsoever. GOG.
And yet Valve's "We'll accept porn games for as long as they don't break the law" Steam, rejected the game.
Thomas Baker
> TLOU2 features a man taking it in the ass from another man and while you don't actually see the cocks it it's obvious. It also features partial nudity, mantits on estrogen. By that logic, Steam MUST allow smut with censored genitals.
Robert White
alright is this a bot? why we posting resetera threads on here now?
Steam only accepted Amrilato after it got accepted into the GOG store. It's clear that whoever was running submissions at steam had a grudge against VNs.
>look it up >have to log in to even see it HO SHIT NOW THATS A FUCKIN PORN GAME >it’s not a VN it’s RPG maker
Oh so it’s not a shit VN title. At that point the discrimination is against shitty low effort VNs.
I’m fine with this. It’s not censorship it’s a rare case of quality control
Gabriel Richardson
>Submit non-games to a games platform >Get rejected I don't see a problem.
Dominic Watson
If I wasn't a useless brainlet I'd make my dream snu-snu amazon VN. None of that cringey kawaii uguu~ anime school girl shit. Just BIG MEATY WOMEN
But am brainlet.
Aiden Miller
>Princess & Conquest Based. Have there been any progress on it though?
Zachary Rivera
i'm ok with people raping you to death but i don't spend a lot of my time on the internet writing about it
Austin Murphy
>it’s an actual game not a VN
I still don’t see the problem, it’s obviously not censorship at that fucking point it’s rejecting Loli shit and shitty games.
Dylan Young
Companies refuse to allow content with underage porn, drawn or not, to avoid having any problem with any region. Your shitty VN is not worth the legal headaches
