Steam Targets Anime-Style Games for "Child Exploitation"

By Kasaix • 5 years ago

Valve continues to fail its own base left and right, and now we have some explanation, as loose as that term can be used here. It's been suggested that Valve has been extra critical of anime-style games. Weird dig, but okay. To each their own, as long as they aren't threatening people's livelihoods. Which they are.

To frame this, Valve is headquartered in Washington state, which has a vague and poorly-written law about "child exploitation". To be clear, we here at Doujins do not condone actually exploiting children. Such monsters deserve the full wrath of the law, and then some. It's for this reason that companies look elsewhere for headquarters, it's a bum law that is used to attack freedom of speech. That said, the titles that were banned, like the header "The Key to Home", had no children being shown in any sort of inappropriate manner. The Key to Home has no sexual content whatsoever. Niplheim's Hunter and other R18 titles clearly state that all characters are 18+. Yet all are targeted. Now let's see what someone at Valve has to say.

A fan of visual novels, sanahtlig, pointed to an artist at Valve perfectly happy to placate angered Steam fans.

He went on to post a chatlog with the artist Jane Ng discussing these matters. Honestly, it was a lot of spin and a lot of nonsense. Between Steam, Sony, and Tumblr, things are going way backwards. Soon girls won't be able to appear in anything if they're not covered head to toe in clothing. Don't let these puritans see your ankles!