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Originally Posted by loramin
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Look, at the end of the day you're either fine with Visa deciding what you can and can't play (censoring perfectly legal games) ... or you're not.
Also, it's important to understand that it's not just the banned games that you won't get to play: this will have a chilling effect on any future game that might have considered "pornographic" elements ... because game makers (fearing delisting) will now avoid anything that's even close to controversial.
You can clutch pearls all you want:
But this isn't about protecting children: it's about censoring adults.
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Okay and yes it is censorship I 100% agree. But has Valve condemned the games officially or not beyond admitting they removed them? It's their platform, is it not? I don't see how hard it would be for an official statement saying: 'We own our decision and the decision is ours despite pressure from our payment processors. And we removed the games because we don't want to platform them and won't be monetizing or platforming these games from now on.'
Edit: I don't use steam and haven't for over 15 years. Does steam have a large 'forums' that anyone with a steamid can post in natively? I can see how that being a factor could complicate and might then lead to more censorship like banning mentioning SA games and how that's a slippery slope and perfectly valid concern to want to anticipate.
07-29-2025, 02:14 PM
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