Decision making in this space is particularly challenging, and one that we've really struggled with. Recently there's been a bunch of community discussion around what kind of games we're allowing onto the Steam Store.Īs is often the case, the discussion caused us to spend some time examining what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we could be doing it better. Valve's recent blog post announcing the overhauling of its censorship policies comes off as a tad out of the blue, given the stony radio silence that characterized the company in the days immediately following the censorship controversy silence that would only later taper off into a quiet restoration of most removed titles and discreet apologies to individual devs and publishers harmed by the decision.īy the admission of Valve's Erik Johnson, this period of quiet was not a deliberate communications lockdown, but rather, a sign of the company and its employees struggling with how to handle the situation. The platform also saw multiple visual novel devs and publishers threatened with punishment over various notions, ranging from uncensored patches, mature content, or in the case of developer Lupiesoft, no stated rules violation at all. This news comes hot off the heels of what could best be described as a holocaust of titty games, where multiple developers of games containing mature content had their products removed or otherwise threatened with removal from Steam.
In a recent announcement, Valve Corp, has responded to the recent controversy over censorship of certain games on their digital storefront, Steam, by overhauling its rules in favor of a more liberal, hands-off, minimal-censorship policy.
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