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Rahzadan Jul 14, 2017 @ 6:43am
Don't Stream this game - you'll probably get banned
I almost did! Last night I was streaming this on Twitch, and users informed me that other streamers were getting banned for streaming this game, even WITH the censor enabled (I had it enabled as well). I believed them and stopped my stream. When I checked earlier in the evening, there were 8-10 streamers streaming it. When I was notified by people in my chat, I checked again and there were only 2. I did watch one guy that didn't have the censor enabled however, and he was banned pretty quicky.

TL:DR - Don't stream this on Twitch, even with the censor option enabled.
Last edited by Rahzadan; Jul 14, 2017 @ 6:46am
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SSXMattX Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:00am 
I don't think this is entirely true. I just watched lolyler stream this late last night for hours with no issues. It was the most watched stream on Twitch at the time. He also streamed it for a while the night before. A couple days before that, sodapoppin played it. The game is also not on the list of banned games. If any streamers got banned, it may have been for something else, but I doubt it was for playing this game. Still helps to be cautious I'm sure, but twitch is pretty much loaded with videos of this game right now, and if they were banning the game and people who played it, I find it difficult to believe they completely missed/forgot to remove the dozens and dozens of vidoes that come up when you search the game...

Edit: I just looked again and there are literally hundreds of clips on Twitch of this game you can easily find by searching.
Last edited by SSXMattX; Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:02am
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Rahzadan Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:03am 
You make a good point - but it seems Twitch has banned games with LESS nudity/sex... In addition, any game rated 'AO' by the ESRB is automatically banned from streaming. While this game has never been (and probably never will be) officially rated by the ESRB, you can almost guarantee it would be rated AO. For this reason, I have a pretty good feeling that this game will be added to their banned games list before too long :-\
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SSXMattX Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:15am 
Originally posted by Rahzadan:
You make a good point - but it seems Twitch has banned games with LESS nudity/sex... In addition, any game rated 'AO' by the ESRB is automatically banned from streaming. While this game has never been (and probably never will be) officially rated by the ESRB, you can almost guarantee it would be rated AO. For this reason, I have a pretty good feeling that this game will be added to their banned games list before too long :-\

Maybe, maybe not. Steam really opened their minds to allow this game. Maybe Twitch will follow in suit. If I were you, I'd keep an eye on the banned games list. Even if twitch did ban you for playing this game (which it doesn't look like they are considering the sheer amount of people playing it right now), I think it would be an easy resolve to just say "Hey, I didn't know. It wasn't on the list". And they would un-ban you and add it to their list at that point.
Last edited by SSXMattX; Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:16am
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Rahzadan Jul 14, 2017 @ 7:44am 
Originally posted by RicketyChicken:
Originally posted by Rahzadan:
You make a good point - but it seems Twitch has banned games with LESS nudity/sex... In addition, any game rated 'AO' by the ESRB is automatically banned from streaming. While this game has never been (and probably never will be) officially rated by the ESRB, you can almost guarantee it would be rated AO. For this reason, I have a pretty good feeling that this game will be added to their banned games list before too long :-\

Maybe, maybe not. Steam really opened their minds to allow this game. Maybe Twitch will follow in suit. If I were you, I'd keep an eye on the banned games list. Even if twitch did ban you for playing this game (which it doesn't look like they are considering the sheer amount of people playing it right now), I think it would be an easy resolve to just say "Hey, I didn't know. It wasn't on the list". And they would un-ban you and add it to their list at that point.

Makes sense. Thanks for this!
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Rahzadan Jul 14, 2017 @ 1:16pm 
So, I don't want to speak too soon, but the page on Twitch for House Party appears to have been removed now:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/House%20Party

Anyone else seeing that?
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Chompman Jul 14, 2017 @ 5:39pm 
Well with how many streamers were getting banned, both with and without censors, this was going to happen as it broke twitch's rule about this type of content:

Sexually Explicit, Adults-Only, and Other Prohibited Games
Nudity, pornography, sex, or sexual violence can not be a core focus or feature of the game in question, and gameplay with modded nudity is entirely prohibited. Occurrences of in-game nudity are permitted, so long as you do not make them a primary focus of your content and only spend as much time as needed in the area to progress the game's story. Games rated Adults Only (AO) by the ESRB are not permitted in content on Twitch.

Seeing as the entire point of the game was the primary focus of such an act this was why.
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robomagon Jul 14, 2017 @ 5:50pm 
Stop using Twitch...
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Zed Jul 14, 2017 @ 6:55pm 
Originally posted by Rahzadan:
So, I don't want to speak too soon, but the page on Twitch for House Party appears to have been removed now:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/House%20Party

Anyone else seeing that?

I'm pretty sure the game has been banned. I streamed this game two nights in a row. There were several trolls who came to my channel and tried like hell to get me banned for streaming it.
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SSXMattX Jul 15, 2017 @ 2:19am 
What's interesting is that they haven't added it to the banned list, and there are still TONS of videos of the game on Twitch, and people streaming it. I think the censor is the redeeming factor. I've seen some people play this and not turn on the censor, which is a blatant disregard for Twitch's TOS, and those are probably the people getting banned. I saw sodapoppin and loltyper play this with no issues, and they were the top watched streams at the time. I think if Twitch wanted to ban this game, they would take more definitive action, but its kind of in a grey area because it has a built-in censor. My thought is that just the people not using the censor or being mindful about the nudity is the issue.

Also, that's so stupid that people literally try to get you banned for a little nudity. It amazes me what people do with their time.

Edit: I should also mention how stupid it is that Twitch has a policy in the first place that violence and gore is ok, but boobs are not. Are they seriously sending the message that they are ok with murder, but showing a breast is over the line? LOL.
Last edited by SSXMattX; Jul 15, 2017 @ 2:21am
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Rahzadan Jul 15, 2017 @ 9:51am 
Originally posted by RicketyChicken:
What's interesting is that they haven't added it to the banned list, and there are still TONS of videos of the game on Twitch, and people streaming it. I think the censor is the redeeming factor. I've seen some people play this and not turn on the censor, which is a blatant disregard for Twitch's TOS, and those are probably the people getting banned. I saw sodapoppin and loltyper play this with no issues, and they were the top watched streams at the time. I think if Twitch wanted to ban this game, they would take more definitive action, but its kind of in a grey area because it has a built-in censor. My thought is that just the people not using the censor or being mindful about the nudity is the issue.

Also, that's so stupid that people literally try to get you banned for a little nudity. It amazes me what people do with their time.

Edit: I should also mention how stupid it is that Twitch has a policy in the first place that violence and gore is ok, but boobs are not. Are they seriously sending the message that they are ok with murder, but showing a breast is over the line? LOL.

Literally every TV station in North America is the same way though. Over in Europe, it's the opposite. Extreme violence is banned/frowned upon (many European countries have banned GTA 5 for example, but have no problem showing hardcore porn at 2 in the afternoon on Network TV)

The fact of the matter is, in NA we are prudes for some reason and are OK with extreme violence in video games (for the most part) but sex/nudity (which is a NATURAL thing, and isn't causing phsyical harm to anyone), is frowned upon / censored all to hell. Doesn't make sense to me.

Since Twitch is based in the USA, they conform to American rules & prudeness etc.

While the game isn't on their banned list, the fact that the channel for House Party was removed from Twitch entirely as of yesterday, tells me that they're about to add it to that list in the near future, or that they don't want it displayed on their site. This sucks, because I'm a small-time Twitch streamer, and I usually average 2-3 viewers AT MOST most of the time, but House Party had me at 40+ viewers!
Last edited by Rahzadan; Jul 15, 2017 @ 9:52am
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annoyed orange Jul 15, 2017 @ 5:35pm 
house party is on the restricted games list because of tyler1 lul
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PocketYoda Jul 15, 2017 @ 7:06pm 
Modern social engineering at work... :steamfacepalm: sad world its become.. we are almost a police state...
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Rahzadan Jul 15, 2017 @ 7:19pm 
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1992676-list-of-prohibited-games

As of today, House Party has officially been added to the list of prohibited games on Twitch. Definitely don't stream it anymore!
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PocketYoda Jul 15, 2017 @ 8:58pm 
Originally posted by Rahzadan:
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1992676-list-of-prohibited-games

As of today, House Party has officially been added to the list of prohibited games on Twitch. Definitely don't stream it anymore!
Why on earth would they do that.. glad i don't use that site.
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robomagon Jul 15, 2017 @ 9:08pm 
Originally posted by DanteYoda:
Originally posted by Rahzadan:
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1992676-list-of-prohibited-games

As of today, House Party has officially been added to the list of prohibited games on Twitch. Definitely don't stream it anymore!
Why on earth would they do that.. glad i don't use that site.
No one should use that site. justin.tv turned all their gaming channels to crap when they launched twitch.
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