Pedz wrote:Maybe they are just allowing sexy naked games now?
It's in black and white up there. Valve have turned their noses up and said 'strawberry float it, do what you want we're not moderating anymore.' It's the same attitude twitter and YouTube use to excuse themselves from responsibility when, for example, millions of bots manage to sway the election process of the most powerful country in the world.
It's lazy, it's harmful and it's strawberry floating irresponsible.
Pedz wrote:Maybe they are just allowing sexy naked games now?
It's in black and white up there. Valve have turned their noses up and said 'strawberry float it, do what you want we're not moderating anymore.' It's the same attitude twitter and YouTube use to excuse themselves from responsibility when, for example, millions of bots manage to sway the election process of the most powerful country in the world.
It's lazy, it's harmful and it's strawberry floating irresponsible.
I'm pretty sure this is just in response to the blow back from banning a bunch of anime games for showing boobs, but allowing games like the Witcher to show boobs.
I really doubt many elections are going to be swayed by some indie steam game.
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
Pedz wrote:Maybe they are just allowing sexy naked games now?
It's in black and white up there. Valve have turned their noses up and said 'strawberry float it, do what you want we're not moderating anymore.' It's the same attitude twitter and YouTube use to excuse themselves from responsibility when, for example, millions of bots manage to sway the election process of the most powerful country in the world.
It's lazy, it's harmful and it's strawberry floating irresponsible.
I'm pretty sure this is just in response to the blow back from banning a bunch of anime games for showing boobs, but allowing games like the Witcher to show boobs.
I really doubt many elections are going to be swayed by some indie steam game.
Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
Like the example I used purely for illustrative purposes, this is another example of tech companies creating a place where abusive content can flourish and washing their hands of responsibility for it.
EDIT: From the author of the Kotaku piece (it's a thread):
Pedz wrote:Maybe they are just allowing sexy naked games now?
It's in black and white up there. Valve have turned their noses up and said 'strawberry float it, do what you want we're not moderating anymore.' It's the same attitude twitter and YouTube use to excuse themselves from responsibility when, for example, millions of bots manage to sway the election process of the most powerful country in the world.
It's lazy, it's harmful and it's strawberry floating irresponsible.
I'm pretty sure this is just in response to the blow back from banning a bunch of anime games for showing boobs, but allowing games like the Witcher to show boobs.
I really doubt many elections are going to be swayed by some indie steam game.
Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
Like the example I used purely for illustrative purposes, this is another example of tech companies creating a place where abusive content can flourish and washing their hands of responsibility for it.
EDIT: From the author of the Kotaku piece (it's a thread):
Pedz wrote:Maybe they are just allowing sexy naked games now?
It's in black and white up there. Valve have turned their noses up and said 'strawberry float it, do what you want we're not moderating anymore.' It's the same attitude twitter and YouTube use to excuse themselves from responsibility when, for example, millions of bots manage to sway the election process of the most powerful country in the world.
It's lazy, it's harmful and it's strawberry floating irresponsible.
I'm pretty sure this is just in response to the blow back from banning a bunch of anime games for showing boobs, but allowing games like the Witcher to show boobs.
I really doubt many elections are going to be swayed by some indie steam game.
Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
Like the example I used purely for illustrative purposes, this is another example of tech companies creating a place where abusive content can flourish and washing their hands of responsibility for it.
EDIT: From the author of the Kotaku piece (it's a thread):
So just out of curiosity what are you worried about? The only bad thing I can see happening is more aggressive micro-transations, and loot boxes.
Making games isn't the same thing as making twitter bots, your games actually have to be good for people to play them, and that takes time, effort and skill. There are also loads of games that are violent, but inciting hatred is illegal in pretty much every country I'm aware of, so I doubt we'll see some game where you have to build and manage your own Islamic State anytime soon.
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
Tafdolphin wrote:Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, do you feel they're using the anime tiddies 'controversy' as a convenient excuse to simply blanket step back from all moderation duties?
Tafdolphin wrote:Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, do you feel they're using the anime tiddies 'controversy' as a convenient excuse to simply blanket step back from all moderation duties?
Tafdolphin wrote:Once again for those in the cheap seats, this is the owner of the biggest market for PC games literally stating they are no longer monitoring their store for offensive and abusive content.
At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, do you feel they're using the anime tiddies 'controversy' as a convenient excuse to simply blanket step back from all moderation duties?
Isn't Anime Tiddies all they moderate now though?
Nah, they pull (or pulled, I guess!) all kinds of offensive nonsense. Like this, from just a week or so ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44302146 ("School shooting game Active Shooter pulled by Steam")
Rightey wrote: Making games isn't the same thing as making twitter bots, your games actually have to be good for people to play them, and that takes time, effort and skill. There are also loads of games that are violent, but inciting hatred is illegal in pretty much every country I'm aware of, so I doubt we'll see some game where you have to build and manage your own Islamic State anytime soon.
Given the amount of asset flip garbage on steam it apparently takes no skill at all to flood the market with achievement/trading card grinders or just plain rubbish that hides the good stuff. I rarely actually look at the steam store anymore, it just isn't worth it. I either go looking for a specific thing or activate a key and go.
Trelliz wrote:Given the amount of asset flip garbage on steam it apparently takes no skill at all to flood the market with achievement/trading card grinders or just plain rubbish that hides the good stuff. I rarely actually look at the steam store anymore, it just isn't worth it. I either go looking for a specific thing or activate a key and go.
I was going to mention the risk of flooding the store, but it's already flooded with low quality games. But even that still takes some effort, and who actually plays those games? Are they going to influence popular opinion on something like an election?
Pelloki on ghosts wrote:Just start masturbating furiously. That'll make them go away.
I'm feeling like I'm the only one who's looking at this somewhat positively. If people want to play booby games let them play their booby games. I think Active Shooter was tasteless and a horrible idea, but it still deserves to exist as much as anything else.
The topic of quality control is completely different to the topic of censorship, and I'm all for quality control, which, yes, Valve is very lacking in. Censorship, which is what they seem to be stepping away from, as far as I can tell, does nothing but stifle creative freedom.
While a blanket approval of everything doesn't help their quality aspect, it's not them stepping away from it as Valve has never stepped up to quality control in the first place. It's a moot point. But the removal of censorship is a net positive.
But yeah I agree, loosening up censorship is ultimately a good thing. Yes there will be people who abuse it to create garbage, but ultimately I believe fewer restrictions when it comes to peoples ability to create games is a good thing.
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Also, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is free for the first 100 hours...