Steam and "Hentai-" games

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Seems like nowadays there's almost always a game titled "Hentai" (with something before or after that word) in the New & Trending section in the store page.

Often they are just some silly short puzzle games that you have to complete to unlock an image of an anime girl in a provocative pose, sometimes desplaying nudity.

I don't have anything specifically against these games simply because they're not my cup of coffee, but what does begin to irritate me is the amount of these games popping up.
Even now as of the time of my typing this post there are two of these "Hentai-" titled games in the New & Trending section of the front page.

It's sad, really.
Just have some artistic skill to draw some hot anime babes, often poorly with bad anatomy, basic game coding knowledge, and then just keep pumping the same product into steam again and again, with slightly different anime babes each time.
Why this happens? Because it's easy and profitable in the same way that the "Elsa Spiderman" type of videos are on YouTube; kids consume that stuff like an addiction.

Let's all be honest here, Steam already has a fair share of poor games, do we also need these? You can find the same stuff as free flash games to play in your browser.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

Use this https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

That doesn't address the issue.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

Filter out what you don't want to see and ignore the rest.

There are only ~25,000 games on Steam.

Again, that doesn't address the issue that these games exist in the first place and are being pumped in to the platform.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nikolis:

Again, that doesn't address the issue that these games exist in the first place and are being pumped in to the platform.

And they are allowed to be here just like any other game. People buy them.

Do you complain about food you don't like being sold at your local market?

Did you even read my post?

And of course I would complain about the food at the local market if I believed there was a reason to complain about it, albeit this is a dumb comparison that you're trying to make.

[American Dove Mitten]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nikolis:

Again, that doesn't address the issue that these games exist in the first place and are being pumped in to the platform.

And they are allowed to be here just like any other game. People buy them.

Do you complain about food you don't like being sold at your local market?

The problem is not hentai games. We now see a lot more shovelware games that can be made in 2 hours.

1- they not games. If you want to compare them to food, they are like poop infested with parasites.
2- they cost nothing to make
3- i doubt that those devs own the art
4- they not always hentai so the filter would not remove them
5- they outnumber proper indie games 4 to 1 or worse, so those devs make less money and frankly steam will make less money too

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

And people still buy them. That is why more are made. Just like the wave of survival zombie and minecraft clones.

Of course they buy them.
I said in my original post that they are "easy and profitable", as in cheap to produce and easy to sell.
I made that comparison to the "Elsa Spiderman" videos on youtube, because they are easy to make, and garner a lot of money from kids watching those videos one after the other.

And of course they are profitable, which is why they are made.
That doesn't mean that it's a good thing for the platform.
That's why I'm here trying to bring light on the issue.

I really don't know what you're still doing here, as you don't contribute anything to the discussion, instead you're just stating what's already been said.
Sure, you're free to stay and comment, but please do make it worthwhile.

[Start_Running]

Hyperbole is a bad way to make a point:

New & trending:

Pathfinder: Kingmaker
RPG, CRPG, Fantasy, Isometric

Valkyria Chronicles 4
Strategy, RPG, Anime, Turn-Based


New Gundam Breaker
Action, Mechs, Anime

CrossCode
Action RPG, RPG, Pixel Graphics, Female Protagonist

Pummel Party
Indie, Action, Casual, Multiplayer

Star Control®: Origins
Adventure, Indie, Action, Sci-fi

Cube Escape: Paradox
Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Psychological Horror

60 Parsecs!
Adventure, Strategy, Simulation, RPG

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk
RPG, Strategy, Dungeon Crawler, Sexual Content

Distance
Racing, Great Soundtrack, Multiplayer, Level Editor


And that's basically been my new and trending for the last few days.

So Please. If you're browsing new, just admit you are. DOn't say you're loioking where you're not. And no I actually don't have any filters against that sort of content.

Now that said. I don't quite see what the issue is. It's a trend, and apparently since people haven't heard of DeviantArt or e621 there's apparently a parket for anime nudie galleries.

[American Dove Mitten]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nikolis:

Of course they buy them.
I said in my original post that they are "easy and profitable", as in cheap to produce and easy to sell.
I made that comparison to the "Elsa Spiderman" videos on youtube, because they are easy to make, and garner a lot of money from kids watching those videos one after the other.

And of course they are profitable, which is why they are made.
That doesn't mean that it's a good thing for the platform.
That's why I'm here trying to bring light on the issue.

I really don't know what you're still doing here, as you don't contribute anything to the discussion, instead you're just stating what's already been said.
Sure, you're free to stay and comment, but please do make it worthwhile.

You think you are the first to bring light about this? Try using the search function. Many threads about it from the last 2 years. Vocal minority still has issues with these games.

Actually I was talking about it for about 10 years

Steam Direct made it easy to spam shovelware, which is relatively recent.

Good games might take a year or more to make.

We get 10+ shovelware games a day

Put your hand in a bag with 3000 tokens and pull 1 that is golden. Now imagine if you are a good indie game that is treated the same way as any shovelware game. Average gamer does not see it.

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These types of game eventually get the since they are prob categorized as "troll games", and others have already been taken off Steam, just give it time.

I'm looking at a few other DEVs I think will get the hammer soon but I won't name names.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Start_Running:

And that's basically been my new and trending for the last few days.

So Please. If you're browsing new, just admit you are. DOn't say you're loioking where you're not. And no I actually don't have any filters against that sort of content.

https://image.prntscr.com/image/OWg0URlDQlaJPuLwUwskbg.png

I am not browsing anything.
New and trending.
In the front page.
Just because it doesn't show up for you the same, it doesn't mean that I'm lying and have something to "admit".

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Steam did just adress this in a blog post a few months back.
Their philosophy is that EVERYTHING is allowed on the Steam Store
as long as its not against the law or blatant trolling.
Apart from that they will not curate what is released here. That was their final stance on the matter and they are sticking by it.
As is obvious as since 2 weeks ago uncensored porn games are now allowed to be sold on Steam.
But they are filtered out by default and you need to activate a option in your account settings to make them appear in the store.
Which is a good solution, further updates to the filtering system are planned for the near future and as long as every user can filter out the stuff he is not interested in, i dont see any problem.

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You just have to add them into the filter and they will stop showing for you.

[American Dove Mitten]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sorokonojka:

Actually I was talking about it for about 10 years

Steam Direct made it easy to spam shovelware, which is relatively recent.

Good games might take a year or more to make.

We get 10+ shovelware games a day

Put your hand in a bag with 3000 tokens and pull 1 that is golden. Now imagine if you are a good indie game that is treated the same way as any shovelware game. Average gamer does not see it.

Greenlight had the same issue. The rules have not changed, just the fee. Direct did nothing to add to the issue you see. People complained about the multitude of RPGmaker games being released during Greenlight.

The great thing about opinions is, everyone has one. What you might think is "golden" others may not.

I like trashy games more than anyone here, but unlike you I understand where the game ends and scam begins.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nikolis:

https://image.prntscr.com/image/OWg0URlDQlaJPuLwUwskbg.png

I am not browsing anything.
New and trending.
In the front page.
Just because it doesn't show up for you the same, it doesn't mean that I'm lying and have something to "admit".

That is regional. I don't see any of them in the list on my store page.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sorokonojka:

I like trashy games more than anyone here, but unlike you I understand where the game ends and scam begins.

I find it easier to just to ignore such things rather than trying to seek them out.

I had 8 of those games in my discovery Q without owning any of similar games.

Go count how many of my 970 games are 3 by 3 jigsaw.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย 999999999:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sorokonojka:

I had 8 of those games in my discovery Q without owning any of similar games.

Go back to the first reply and change your preferences. Also see if they have a developer/publisher page and block them.

You want me to block hundreds of developers that make new accounts? Please, I would rather Steam limit how many games a trashy publisher can spam in 1 month.

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โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ;1735465524721834658:

Actually I was talking about it for about 10 years

Steam Direct made it easy to spam shovelware, which is relatively recent.

Good games might take a year or more to make.

We get 10+ shovelware games a day

Put your hand in a bag with 3000 tokens and pull 1 that is golden. Now imagine if you are a good indie game that is treated the same way as any shovelware game. Average gamer does not see it.

Steam Direct actually made it a little harder. Before you had aone-time fee of $100 and you can spam as many games through greenlight as you wanted. Direct puts $100 per title. So in the old system 5 tiles cost you $100 , current system will cost you $500.

Good games might take a year or more to make? I have yet to see a good game that took a year to make. A decent game typically spends 3 years in development at minimum. Sure it can be less if you're reusing assets and mechanics. I mean the only reason Scot was able to fire off FNAF sequels so quickly was really because very little changed between games. The mechanics all stayed the same.

10+ Shovelware games a day. Well never mind sthat some people might actually enjoy those games for the low price they're sold at....but even so. That's not a new thing. That's been a thing ever since the days of atari.

Funny thing about good games. You don't really need to search for them. The best games will always bubble through the media eventually. You don't have to relentlessly scour the new releases.

This hentai trend will die out quickly enough anyway. Sooner or later people will remember, oh right the internet is a thing now.