Do all you guys remember that big discuffle about Valve trying to remove our favorite oppai loving, skirt flipping, and rape filled adult games off of Steam? Well, the issue has surfaced back up but in a more positive way, depending on how you read it. Erik Johnson, the admission of Valve, has come out on the behalf of Valve to chime in about the whole situation:

"Recently there's been a bunch of community discussion around what kind of games we're allowing onto the Steam Store.

As 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. Decision making in this space is particularly challenging, and one that we've really struggled with. Contrary to many assumptions, this isn't a space we've automated - humans at Valve are very involved, with groups of people looking at the contents of every controversial title submitted to us.

Similarly, people have falsely assumed these decisions are heavily affected by our payment processors, or outside interest groups. Nope, it's just us grappling with a really hard problem.

[...We] ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam, and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store to many more developers: Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this.

If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy. If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create.

Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable.

With that principle in mind, we've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling.

Taking this approach allows us to focus less on trying to police what should be on Steam, and more on building those tools to give people control over what kinds of content they see. We already have some tools, but they're too hidden and not nearly comprehensive enough.

We are going to enable you to override our recommendation algorithms and hide games containing the topics you're not interested in. So if you don't want to see anime games on your Store, you'll be able to make that choice. If you want more options to control exactly what kinds of games your kids see when they browse the Store, you'll be able to do that.

And it's not just players that need better tools either - developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too.

As we mentioned earlier, laws vary around the world, so we're going to need to handle this on a case-by-case basis. As a result, we will almost certainly continue to struggle with this one for a while.

Our current thinking is that we're going to push developers to further disclose any potentially problematic content in their games during the submission process, and cease doing business with any of them that refuse to do so honestly. We'll still continue to perform technical evaluations of submissions, rejecting games that don't pass until their issues have been resolved.

So what does this mean? It means that the Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. Unless you don't have any opinions, that's guaranteed to happen. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist.

It also means that the games we allow onto the Store will not be a reflection of Valve’s values, beyond a simple belief that you all have the right to create & consume the content you choose. The two points above apply to all of us at Valve as well. If you see something on Steam that you think should not exist, it's almost certain that someone at Valve is right there with you."

So yeah, if you read all of that you might now understand what I meant by the situation can seem positive by the way you read it or interpret it. The rules they set in place seems similar to the rules they already had while being more transparent. As they said, what is illegal differs place to place. So what about when it come to things that can be seen as illegal, like a loli that you can fuck but she’s 29 years old? She looks like a little girl but is actually a grown woman. That’s legal but it looks illegal. I wonder what they’ll do when cases like that start popping up. If they let something like that on there site, they’ll be the ones people also look at as immoral not just the developers. Things like that can clearly be seen as gray, so they’ll have to be the once to remove it or let it stay. I say, LET THE GROWN UP LOLIS STAY!!!

What do you think about Valve’s new stand? Do you think the new rules will work? Do you think it’s still illegal to fuck a grown woman who looks like a little girl? Tell us in the comments below.