why do you care if there is bigoted games on steam? i have never been advertised such games on steam. the only place i learn about it is when there is some news story, let them die on the vine. they may get positive reviews, but only because the people who seek these games out buy them and get to leave a review, they are not popular.
you start trying to police that stuff, and it gets worse. and then stream starts having to decide where the line is, and what is parody, and there is no decision you can make that will be free from negative consequences
They allowed this game on their platform for two weeks and only removed it because the developer requested the removal lol
Plantation Simulator is a simple farming simulator where you motivate friends with kisses to pick your crops! Maintain a beautiful farm by repairing fences to keep friends focused. Choose multiple crops to grow and enhance upgrades to maximize your success!
I don’t think I need to go into detail how those two games differ, right?
Yes, as that is central to your point that those games are different. You simply saying ‘you know I’m right so I’m not going to argue my point’ isn’t an argument.
But surely KZ Manager just dresses up systemic mass murder with a bunch of innuendo. It’s just some silly satire!
You’re confusing games where bad things happen, which are within the rules and games that promote hatred of protected groups.
There are plenty of games where you, as a player, are directly responsible for atrocities. This isn’t some new thing in video games.
Games can reference slavery, even the US-African slave trade, without being ‘hate content’. There are numerous examples of this across all types of media. I don’t think I need to go into the details, right?
Look. I’m not media illiterate and know the difference between a game telling a story, simulating something, and promoting something.
Hearts of Iron IV is not a nazi game despite a lot of them playing it.
The Yakuza/Mafia series do not encourage people to join their respective, still existing, criminal organization.
Plague Inc does not advocate for the destruction of humanity.
Plantation Simulator however does not criticize anything about skavery. It’s nothing but a mockery. An equivalent would be if KZ Manager was about providing free housing and labor opportunities for various Holocaust victims.
If you make fun of historic crimes against humanities, your game is designed for those who support that crime.
it’s not even the only one. a few years ago People Make Games made a video on valve, mentioning among other things the game “tyrone vs cops” which is a blatantly racist “satirical” game, which was allowed on steam. i checked recently, to see if the game had been removed since.
not only is it still there, it’s gotten multiple sequels, and is officially rated as playable on steam deck. valve does not give a shit about racism on their platform.
a horrifically misogynistic rape simulator was left there untouched until a group of anti-porn puritans got the payment processors involved, which is what got us into this whole mess with nsfw games. had valve given a shit about moderating hate on their platform this likely wouldn’t have happened.
As long as it’s not illegal content like csam, they should allow it. Why not let the racist shitheads out themselves? It’s not like valve would be forcing anyone to buy them, and don’t need to promote it.
Besides, when you get into the area of banning simply “distasteful” content, then you get people asking to whitewash everything, including history. I don’t want a historically accurate game to get censored. I don’t want content to be arbitrarily censored by lawyers and credit card companies, or any dumbass individuals’ sensitivities, for that matter.
I’m not asking for Steam to have to allow such content, either. If there’s a game that’s just celebrating being vile trash, I’m also fine with Steam telling them to fuck off the platform.
As is usual in the real world, the correct answer is no extreme.
Article is talking about what games they have on the platform. Separate moderation issues.
they need to do better there too. there have been multiple explicitly racist games on steam, and valve has done nothing.
Okie-dokie, still not the conversation they were having in this article.
why do you care if there is bigoted games on steam? i have never been advertised such games on steam. the only place i learn about it is when there is some news story, let them die on the vine. they may get positive reviews, but only because the people who seek these games out buy them and get to leave a review, they are not popular.
you start trying to police that stuff, and it gets worse. and then stream starts having to decide where the line is, and what is parody, and there is no decision you can make that will be free from negative consequences
This is regarding the porn games, chucklenuts. They already removed Hatred and the like.
https://steamdb.info/app/4495510/
They allowed this game on their platform for two weeks and only removed it because the developer requested the removal lol
Slavery simulator is an allowed genre on Steam.
This has always been the case. Here’s an incredibly popular game that allows slavery.
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Slavery
Rimworld also includes forced organ harvesting and a host of other war crimes
They also allow murder simulators, drug dealing simulators, genocide simulators, etc
As far as games go, a game that dresses up slavery with a bunch of innuendo is incredibly mild.
I don’t think I need to go into detail how those two games differ, right?
It’s just about the same difference as between the games “Prison Architect” and “KZ Manager”.
But surely KZ Manager just dresses up systemic mass murder with a bunch of innuendo. It’s just some silly satire!
Yes, as that is central to your point that those games are different. You simply saying ‘you know I’m right so I’m not going to argue my point’ isn’t an argument.
You’re confusing games where bad things happen, which are within the rules and games that promote hatred of protected groups.
There are plenty of games where you, as a player, are directly responsible for atrocities. This isn’t some new thing in video games.
Games can reference slavery, even the US-African slave trade, without being ‘hate content’. There are numerous examples of this across all types of media. I don’t think I need to go into the details, right?
Look. I’m not media illiterate and know the difference between a game telling a story, simulating something, and promoting something.
Hearts of Iron IV is not a nazi game despite a lot of them playing it.
The Yakuza/Mafia series do not encourage people to join their respective, still existing, criminal organization.
Plague Inc does not advocate for the destruction of humanity.
Plantation Simulator however does not criticize anything about skavery. It’s nothing but a mockery. An equivalent would be if KZ Manager was about providing free housing and labor opportunities for various Holocaust victims.
If you make fun of historic crimes against humanities, your game is designed for those who support that crime.
It’s crazy that people are genuinely offended by low effort ragebait shovelware.
it’s not even the only one. a few years ago People Make Games made a video on valve, mentioning among other things the game “tyrone vs cops” which is a blatantly racist “satirical” game, which was allowed on steam. i checked recently, to see if the game had been removed since.
not only is it still there, it’s gotten multiple sequels, and is officially rated as playable on steam deck. valve does not give a shit about racism on their platform.
a horrifically misogynistic rape simulator was left there untouched until a group of anti-porn puritans got the payment processors involved, which is what got us into this whole mess with nsfw games. had valve given a shit about moderating hate on their platform this likely wouldn’t have happened.
As long as it’s not illegal content like csam, they should allow it. Why not let the racist shitheads out themselves? It’s not like valve would be forcing anyone to buy them, and don’t need to promote it.
Besides, when you get into the area of banning simply “distasteful” content, then you get people asking to whitewash everything, including history. I don’t want a historically accurate game to get censored. I don’t want content to be arbitrarily censored by lawyers and credit card companies, or any dumbass individuals’ sensitivities, for that matter.
I’m not asking for Steam to have to allow such content, either. If there’s a game that’s just celebrating being vile trash, I’m also fine with Steam telling them to fuck off the platform.
As is usual in the real world, the correct answer is no extreme.