One example where Steam did attempt to meddle was with Branded Azel where they initially wanted the pink-haired character removed from the game to see it released on Steam, but they later took this back and allowed it uncensored and even so this would not have prevented the dev from releasing an off-Steam uncensor patch. Don't make ♥♥♥♥ up and get your facts straight. Steam did not have any involvement in Baldr Sky's censorship that was entirely on Sekai Project (who I do not trust in the slightest due to their history) and Sekai Project themselves said Steam had nothing to do with it. Steam is not changing products in localisation and allows uncensor patches for them that are officially released by the actual localisers.
Steam is a content host, not a localiser. And yet Steam also remains a significant boon for the eroge that do make it onto the service for the publicity it grants them, and Steam is by far the least restrictive of any large storefront when it comes to what they allow you are not going to find any eroge on GOG or EGS, for example.Īlso, you make a completely false equivalence. It's also a problem known to stem from 2-3 specific employees waving their iron fists over the approval queue and a lack of oversight for them to answer to. Steam's refusal to deal with certain eroge and inconsistency of enforcing their guidelines is certainly a problem.
Is there a reason that you're willing to financially support Steam by purchasing games on it when they continue to actively encourage and participate in censorship like removing all erotic content from Baldr Sky, and have never publicly explained their reasons for doing so, but are unwilling to make an exception for Atlus when they edited a single image in their stated belief that it was necessary to comply with the law? I like how you concede that there was no reason for Atlus to censor it everywhere and then shift to attacking me anyway. most characters drawn in an anime style,) and in some cases entirely refuses to allow them to be sold on Steam, despite the publishers attempting to negotiate changes. It was well known long before December 25th, 2019 that Steam has been forcing censorship upon visual novels released on their platform with erotic or borderline-erotic content if the characters could be visually interpreted as underage (i.e. On your profile, you have a badge earned that says you bought enough Steam games at that point to have over 500 games in your library (it says you own 608 games currently, so I guess at least 108 of them.) You also said earlier in this thread "I refuse to give companies financial support for censorship." I can't argue that it wasn't kind of pointless for Atlus to have made the same change worldwide rather than only in the region they thought it was necessary in, though, that's a solid point.īy the way, Shylaar, this doesn't have anything to do with Utawarerumono directly, but I'm curious about something. While I personally wouldn't characterize spanking as a "cruel or otherwise inhuman act of violence" and I'm not sure the changes made to the image and text stop it from being a "glorification or rendering harmless of such acts" if someone wanted to interpret it as such, it's vague as hell and Germany has been extremely trigger happy about demanding VG censorship in the past. shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine. > Whoever, in relation to writings (Section 11 subsection (3)), which describe cruel or otherwise inhuman acts of violence against human beings in a manner which expresses a glorification or rendering harmless of such acts of violence or which represents the cruel or inhuman aspects of the event in a manner which injures human dignity. Originally posted by Letheka:The most likely law is the German one: