Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/17/steam-effectively-halts-approv.html
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It seems to me that whoever can figure out a payment processor for porn which holds the money in Escrow to avoid chargebacks is going to be very wealthy indeed.
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As Steam gets bigger and more into the main market of the world this will happen through enough people noticing pr0n games, just the hassle of refunds, bad press when a kid buys the game, etc.
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Steam effectively halts approval of saucy visual novels
“Salacious” and “racy” visual novels still passing the bar, then.
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Play Doki Doki Literature Club while you still can!
(It’s a psychological horror game masquerading as a fun and flirty “visual novel”)
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You mean it’s one of the two genres of visual novel?
just Monika
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Basically, but it’s also meta in that you have to think outside the box (indeed, all the way outside the .exe!) to actually beat it.
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Wait… “More porn means more chargebacks”? This is a new concept to me; anyone want to explain this assertion?
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Whoops! I didn’t notice your spoiler as I wrote MY spoiler…
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I hadn’t either, but I’m guessing it’s fairly straight-forward. People pay $$ to watch the porn/play the “game”, and then three minutes later it’s fulfilled it’s function, and the buyer is either satiated or maybe even filled with regret, and blocks the charge.
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Fun and flirty? Until the shit goes down, lol. Then it’s WTF AM I PLAYING???
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Nothing saucy, but what about steamy?
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I actually think this might be the reason they are halting approvals. When they announced the anything goes policy they basically said that the users would figure out game categorization. It was a bad idea even before Valve decided to open the floodgates so now they have to backpedal and come up with a way to keep adult games from showing up in everyone’s recommendations.
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Eh, they never had the really dirty ones anyway.
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The chapter on special sauce is legendary.
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Yeah I’m sure their faces were red when they realised that one of their best selling games has 16 hours worth of motion captured sex in it.
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What the hell is the appeal of visual novels anyway? What is the point of endlessly clicking through screen after screen of text with next to no interactivity, when you could just, I dunno, read a manga? Every visual novel I’ve taken the time to check out (because of a recommendation, usually) has bored me to tears.
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