Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.

Hey if you want to goon and not pay might I suggest F95zone a wonderful porn game forum with a very good search system. I think it's the dot to that's the proper site, but it's hard to think right now because everything hurts for no fucking reason.

I was gonna get The Adventures of Kincaid,a furry porn game where you can screw several characters and enemies when you defeat them. The player character is female, and the sex is framed as the character patching up defeated enemies.

There is a similar free game called Naughty Rabbit by a Japanese developer called Be Kon Box... but it is kinda rapey until you realize the females can refuse sex if you don't do it right, which makes me wonder if the sexual dynamics of the world involve kicking ass as courtship before screwing. Also he added some dynamics where the female enemies sexually assault the male player character. Its kinda fascinating.

Is national payment processing the solution?... International public payment processing?

I didn't know this till I heard a podcast series about this, but the global rulemakes for porn are Visa and Mastercard. They decide what "goes too far" and remove a site from their service if they don't like it, effectively cutting off all revenue streams and killing the site. They did this with porn sites and threatened OnlyFans. There are a bunch of rules they've written for the industry (e.g. fingering an orofice with4 fingers was acceptable, but when the thumb goes in then it becomes "fisting" and this used to be unacceptable), but many rules are unwritten and have to be guessed.

I think this is the podcast series for anyone interested (although I heard this a long time ago and I'm not sure if it was a different series and I'm not going to listen again to confirm).

Finally good news

If you can't buy these games on Steam anymore, where can you buy them?

new gamestore named Steaming Hot

There is a lot of talk dancing around the issue here. This isn't an American thing or a Puritan thing. This is purely a capitalism thing. They have been doing this for years. Do you think lolicon got forced off of every major platform for moral reasons? It breaks laws in various counties that the web hosts and payment processors operate in. Wincest porn, CNC porn, Zoo Porn, NSFL stuff. It's all illegal somewhere. These companies are chasing profits. Those niche topics mentioned above lock them out of expanding into some places. Like China. They don't give a fuck about the ethics of the content. They care that they're loosing money by not being able to conduct business in those markets. They care that hosting it makes them a target and possible have to deal with law enforment of some country, fines, or vigilante style attacks on their network. You'll loose your little family harem video game. They don't care. They're making billions processing the main narket. It's capitalism and the global economy that's making your platforms more conservative.

"It's just good business." It pisses me off.

I hope that the EU creates a digital currency system that is universal, and for privacy coins to become common. I don't want to deal with American payment processors, because they want to prevent me from supporting the people who make my life better.

Payment should be a dumb pipe, allowing me and you to uphold the social contract.

I wouldn't really care if Steam decided to crack down on porn games, its their store. Payment processors being the ones to force Valve's hands simply doesn't sit right.

First they came for the incestuous porn
Then they came for the furries
Then they came for games with violence
Then...
Then...
Then...

On the one hand, oh noz, the incest games. Who will live without the low effort AI goon crap?

On the other hand, why do the payment companies get to dictate what sales are made? It's my fucking money, or my fucking store. It's not the job of the payment processors to determine if I'm buying illegal goods, just that the money goes from me to the store.

G*mers and GabeN throwing a shit fit right now.

GabeN going to buy more Aston Martins to crash.

Wait a minute, PayPal is pulling puritanical bullshit again? Did they learn nothing from the last time they tried that?

Steam should accept bitcoin or some other crypto as default for all titles and only use card for "safe" titles

Steam users are mostly tech savvy enough to do it

It's only a matter of time before they come for furry stuff. They did it with fansly. It's apparently "simulated bestiality" and from what I've heard you aren't even allowed to reference trans puppy girls, pup play, etc without getting banned.

I’m equally cautious and curious… Redemption of Li Wei…?

This might sound like a good idea. But it is not, since lets say some topic is too sensitive for the payment processor, then they have monopoly on what game can and can not be allowed on Steam.

So in the long run, this is a bad idea.

After looking at the game list, I fully support this and urge anyone who doesn't to look at the banned games.

So… why tell payment processors exactly what was purchased? Why not call it “Steam store transaction” and that’s it?

Ted Cruz in shambles

If the US used something like pix, MasterCard, visa, etc, wouldn't have any power to do this, but they want to make Brazil delete pix from existence. Interesting.

Edit: grammar

If they’re going to enforce that rule impartially, they’ll have to ban Crusader Kings III as well.

Oh shit, I saw that the original Leisure Suit Larry games are no longer for sale... wonder if this is why?

Is it just me, or does the first photo seem to read that the payment processor standards and the removal of invest games are unrelated? Like, games removed that violate payments processor standards removed. At the same time, incest games are removed too.

With the paragraph break it feels unclear that these incest games are likely in violation of the standards, and instead that they are seperate matters and in fact payments processors may not care about incest games at all.

What happens when someone bought these games. Do they get deleted from their computers and/or from their accounts? Do they get reimbursed?

I don't mind these games existing, but I'm also not going to be too sad if they leave steam, ngl.

Or maybe using the payment processor's TOS allows them to remove pervy Ai horseshit without having to mod their own TOS.

Slam dunk, frankly.

Or maybe using the payment processor's TOS allows them to remove pervy Ai horseshit without having to mod their own TOS. Slam dunk, frankly:

Y’all care about kinky games on steam? Isn’t that what’s itch.io for?

Honest question. I never bought something fucky on steam.

As long as I get to keep my VR Paradise

Payment platforms have problems with incest and furry content from the looks of that list.

Link post about this thing an hour earlier - 10 upvotes. Picture with the same news one hour later - 10x more. Average Lemmy user is no longer distinguishable from a Reddit user :(