Oh, man. So, Steam. You know it, right? That place with all the PC games, every indie gem, every weird title you never knew existed, and — let’s be honest — quite a number of, uh, adult games. Yeah, they’re all just hanging out in the same digital shop. But now? Things could get a bit messy. Or cleaner, depending on how you look at it. Recently, some odd stuff has been going down. Or up? I don’t know.
So, the folks over at SteamDB — they track this sort of thing — mentioned some changes. Apparently, Steam is now telling game developers that certain types of content are no-no, especially if they mess with the vibes of these payment peeps. You know, Visa, MasterCard, all those guys. These guys are a bit like the gatekeepers of our wallets, I suppose. Anyway, it’s confusing because these new rules are kinda vague. Like, maybe follow the rules? But what are the rules? You get the vibe.
Here’s the kicker, though. Around 22 adult games magically disappeared from Steam. Poof, gone. Why? Maybe the thumbnails were too… explicit? But a lot of these games had that incest thing going on. Yeah, awkward.
Steam didn’t say much when folks asked what’s up with that. But normally, these payment giants like PayPal or whatever aren’t too happy when it comes to adult stuff like this. They seem to worry about things spiraling out of control into illegal territory. Non-consensual acts, that sort of nightmare. Sure, they allow some educational content, but — let’s be real — you know they’d rather not shake hands with anything too risqué.
It’s like every corner of the web faces this, though. If you can’t process money, what can you do? Gotta play ball, right? Thing is, while these rules hit adult games hard, the big fancy titles showing, uh, similar stuff? They seem to skate by just fine.
In the end, these games with “questionable” themes might offend many. But without more info, who knows if the rules are fair? Or just some shade of gray in every gamer’s favorite world of black and white.
