a "DLC" to include removed content?

[Hot Gunt]

I know this works as a workaround for other adult stuff so maybe we can get something that lets me beat grandma to death with a dildo before making the married couple have sex?

Besides whatever the hell replaced the strap-on in the attic can bug characters out so they can't interact with anything else.

[Kuehnau]

I just played this a few days ago and I was wondering what you were talking about, so I booted up the game and checked the bed for the dildo and got a baseball bat instead. I tried to have sex and the option isn't there anymore.

I am wondering why they suddenly decided to remove this. I mean, the previous game, one of the plot points required twins to have sex. In the other, there is literally a NPC that has sex with you for cleaning their yard up.

Weird choices.

[Gee]

My estimate: the adults rating was hounding him somehow or blocking him out of certain markets (like Germany). Perhaps he would care to show and explain why he censored his own game.

Look at this game, it's not like sexual content is the high point of these pixels. But the guy willingly cutting this stuff out now to appease Something worries me and I won't be suggesting this series like I have been until I know otherwise.

[Kuehnau]

Originally posted by Gee:

My estimate: the adults rating was hounding him somehow or blocking him out of certain markets (like Germany). Perhaps he would care to show and explain why he censored his own game.

Look at this game, it's not like sexual content is the high point of these pixels. But the guy willingly cutting this stuff out now to appease Something worries me and I won't be suggesting this series like I have been until I know otherwise.

Uh yeah, I kinda feel the same way. I mean the games have always had like a 80's B-horror vibe and part of that vibe is sex, drugs and rock n' roll. It's weird they removed the dildo, I mean, it wasn't like you could cornhole anyone with it. It was just another weapon.

[Aquarius]

Censorship is cancer, this game feels mutilated now.
Please Valve, add some kind of age check for adult stuff.
Banning and censoring is not the solution.

[Kuehnau]

Originally posted by Hamsi:

Censorship is cancer, this game feels mutilated now.
Please Valve, add some kind of age check for adult stuff.
Banning and censoring is not the solution. :rcry:

There is an age check, although to be honest, you can easily lie about your age. I am kind of surprised that Valve doesn't require like an "adult" account to have a verfied card on hand as proof.

But that shouldn't be the game creator's fault. They shouldn't be punished for Valves lack of verification.

[Impurethinker]

Well I just returned it, so there is that.

[Kuehnau]

Originally posted by Impurethinker:

Well I just returned it, so there is that.

That's pretty funny, I hope the developer is reading this.

[Furry Slurry]

I agree with the idea #uncensored
edit: can we just bug the devoloper enough to release the uncut version?

[Hypnohustler]

Okay full disclosure on what happened:

For some reason, Valve wasn't going to let me publish the game without the Adult Only rating this time. I initially set it to Mature, but after they reviewed the game, Adult Only tag was added. Which was kinda surprising, since they had no problems with the previous games. We all know that society has changed in the last five years, so I just chalked it up to that. Valve is just being more careful.

Now my mistake was that I wanted to publish the first episode for Halloween, and I got the Adult Only review two days prior, along with the permission to publish. I can't talk much about how the internal Steam stuff goes, but a review from Valve doesn't happen in two days. So I went ahead and published the game with the Adult Only tag, which made it not appear on the majority of Steam users storefronts.

This is where things start to get a bit annoying. The sex scene was in true Lakeview-fashion just two crude pixel characters smashing together. I don't feel like there's anything sexual about that, I always saw it as more comedic. There wasn't even a sound effect yet implemented. But I decided to add a bed sheet to veil the sex, since I thought that was the issue Valve had. But after contacting Valve, they still thought that it wasn't enough, it had to be removed. And the game also had SEX TOYS! They had to go. Which is EXTREMELY surprising to me since I remember beating people up with dildos in plenty of games before, all of which didnt have an Adult Only rating...

So I changed the sprites and made the sex scene into a sad experience, which fit my vision of the parents trying for a new baby unsuccessfully. I didn't feel like it was that big of a change.

Of course I do feel like my original vision was unfairly stomped on.
I really don't think Lakeview Cabin 2 should only appear with hentai games on Steam, and I feel like I had to go through some pretty dumb things to change that. But I don't want to act angry towards Valve, I'm already beyond that. I made mistakes myself and try to learn from them.

I'm sad to hear it has affected players so much. I talked on the Discord about making an unrated version for Itch.io. And I might still do that, but I also want to just focus on making the episodes first. They will still have lewd content, and this whole debacle has made me kinda want to poke more into the hornets nest with the next episodes. I just have to be more discreet about it. There's something to be said about the vilifying of sex, that kinda seems to be happening right now.

[Hot Gunt]

Hey man thanks for the response, sucks about steam.

Hope you figure something out to give us an uncut version, though. It's not the same without it.

[Gee]

A good response from the dev and thank you for it. I'm sorry to hear about the Steam issues but I do not find myself surprised.
Power to you, your vision of the game, and better profits without Steam taking a cut.

[MekaDovah]

Valve's inconsistent enforcement is disgustingly hypocritical.

[Vile Sentry]

Originally posted by MekaDovah:

Valve's inconsistent enforcement is disgustingly hypocritical.

It's the same old story. Big content maker gets free pass, little ones get stomped on for small infractions.

Reminds me of a certain cat abusing egirl a while back. It's just a balance of money and image for these companies. I really hope the final product doesn't end up too whitewashed.

[Ryncage]

Originally posted by Hypnohustler:

Okay full disclosure on what happened:

For some reason, Valve wasn't going to let me publish the game without the Adult Only rating this time. I initially set it to Mature, but after they reviewed the game, Adult Only tag was added. Which was kinda surprising, since they had no problems with the previous games. We all know that society has changed in the last five years, so I just chalked it up to that. Valve is just being more careful.

Now my mistake was that I wanted to publish the first episode for Halloween, and I got the Adult Only review two days prior, along with the permission to publish. I can't talk much about how the internal Steam stuff goes, but a review from Valve doesn't happen in two days. So I went ahead and published the game with the Adult Only tag, which made it not appear on the majority of Steam users storefronts.

This is where things start to get a bit annoying. The sex scene was in true Lakeview-fashion just two crude pixel characters smashing together. I don't feel like there's anything sexual about that, I always saw it as more comedic. There wasn't even a sound effect yet implemented. But I decided to add a bed sheet to veil the sex, since I thought that was the issue Valve had. But after contacting Valve, they still thought that it wasn't enough, it had to be removed. And the game also had SEX TOYS! They had to go. Which is EXTREMELY surprising to me since I remember beating people up with dildos in plenty of games before, all of which didnt have an Adult Only rating...

So I changed the sprites and made the sex scene into a sad experience, which fit my vision of the parents trying for a new baby unsuccessfully. I didn't feel like it was that big of a change.

Of course I do feel like my original vision was unfairly stomped on.
I really don't think Lakeview Cabin 2 should only appear with hentai games on Steam, and I feel like I had to go through some pretty dumb things to change that. But I don't want to act angry towards Valve, I'm already beyond that. I made mistakes myself and try to learn from them.

I'm sad to hear it has affected players so much. I talked on the Discord about making an unrated version for Itch.io. And I might still do that, but I also want to just focus on making the episodes first. They will still have lewd content, and this whole debacle has made me kinda want to poke more into the hornets nest with the next episodes. I just have to be more discreet about it. There's something to be said about the vilifying of sex, that kinda seems to be happening right now.

Anyway you can do like they did in the old days and just have an offsite patch to revert the content back to how you intend it?

*ucking dumb that Valve is over here picking and choosing like they have any right being the moral arbiters of anything.
Just bought the game today and sad to hear how your vision is already been compromised by those hacks.
Plenty of AAA games with far more suggestive and adult content than two pixel characters bumping. I mean FFS, Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't even have an AO rating.

Godd-damn clown world i swear.

[Vile Sentry]

Originally posted by RynKage:

Originally posted by Hypnohustler:

Okay full disclosure on what happened:

For some reason, Valve wasn't going to let me publish the game without the Adult Only rating this time. I initially set it to Mature, but after they reviewed the game, Adult Only tag was added. Which was kinda surprising, since they had no problems with the previous games. We all know that society has changed in the last five years, so I just chalked it up to that. Valve is just being more careful.

Now my mistake was that I wanted to publish the first episode for Halloween, and I got the Adult Only review two days prior, along with the permission to publish. I can't talk much about how the internal Steam stuff goes, but a review from Valve doesn't happen in two days. So I went ahead and published the game with the Adult Only tag, which made it not appear on the majority of Steam users storefronts.

This is where things start to get a bit annoying. The sex scene was in true Lakeview-fashion just two crude pixel characters smashing together. I don't feel like there's anything sexual about that, I always saw it as more comedic. There wasn't even a sound effect yet implemented. But I decided to add a bed sheet to veil the sex, since I thought that was the issue Valve had. But after contacting Valve, they still thought that it wasn't enough, it had to be removed. And the game also had SEX TOYS! They had to go. Which is EXTREMELY surprising to me since I remember beating people up with dildos in plenty of games before, all of which didnt have an Adult Only rating...

So I changed the sprites and made the sex scene into a sad experience, which fit my vision of the parents trying for a new baby unsuccessfully. I didn't feel like it was that big of a change.

Of course I do feel like my original vision was unfairly stomped on.
I really don't think Lakeview Cabin 2 should only appear with hentai games on Steam, and I feel like I had to go through some pretty dumb things to change that. But I don't want to act angry towards Valve, I'm already beyond that. I made mistakes myself and try to learn from them.

I'm sad to hear it has affected players so much. I talked on the Discord about making an unrated version for Itch.io. And I might still do that, but I also want to just focus on making the episodes first. They will still have lewd content, and this whole debacle has made me kinda want to poke more into the hornets nest with the next episodes. I just have to be more discreet about it. There's something to be said about the vilifying of sex, that kinda seems to be happening right now.

Anyway you can do like they did in the old days and just have an offsite patch to revert the content back to how you intend it?

*ucking dumb that Valve is over here picking and choosing like they have any right being the moral arbiters of anything.
Just bought the game today and sad to hear how your vision is already been compromised by those hacks.
Plenty of AAA games with far more suggestive and adult content than two pixel characters bumping. I mean FFS, Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't even have an AO rating.

Godd-damn clown world i swear.

To be fair, Cyberpunk doesn't have the ability to make your kids watch as you do it.

Not defending the choice, but trying to compare this to different things is just weird. It's a pretty unique set of circumstances, this isn't like Saints row getting AO while GTA gets M.

Do you really think steam are trying to be "moral arbiters" or do you think maybe it is more likely that they are just trying to protect their image as a platform?