Steam allows adult games but won't allow nude screenshot go public?

[I'm_Tired]

There are hundreds of games that shows full nudity and sex here and nude mods are allowed but Steam won't allow their nude screenshot go public.


I don't get it? Why allow one but not the other when they're the same thing?

[Walach]

Isn't that like if you watched XXX movies but you also wanted to have their scenes painted on your car?

There are a lot of people who wouldn't want their children to see that! :P

[Si]

Because those games give Valve $$$, your screenshots don’t give them anything. It’s always about the money.

[Sazzouu]

引用自 Si GNU/Linux：

Because those games give Valve $$$

Then how about the free to play titles among these, Captain Tinfoil?

[I'm_Tired]

引用自 Walach：

Isn't that like if you watched XXX movies but you also wanted to have their scenes painted on your car?

There are a lot of people who wouldn't want their children to see that! :P

No, no that's nothing like that. Screenshots stays in your profile and you only want to share them with your friends.

Steam lets lewd games on FRONT PAGE and lets members have background profiles of half naked animated women that takes 95% of the screen.

But screenshots in your profiles that no one beside few friends visit is so indecent, you gotta think of the children!

Come on, really..

[Walach]

引用自 Sleepy：

No, no that's nothing like that. Screenshots stays in your profile and you only want to share them with your friends.

Steam lets lewd games on FRONT PAGE and lets members have background profiles of half naked animated women that takes 95% of the screen.

But screenshots in your profiles that no one beside few friends visit is so indecent, you gotta think of the children!

Come on, really..

Ohh, I didn't know how it worked. I only read the words "public" and thought you wanted to show off those pictures everywhere! :P

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

引用自 Sleepy：

引用自 Walach：

Isn't that like if you watched XXX movies but you also wanted to have their scenes painted on your car?

There are a lot of people who wouldn't want their children to see that! :P

No, no that's nothing like that. Screenshots stays in your profile and you only want to share them with your friends.

Steam lets lewd games on FRONT PAGE and lets members have background profiles of half naked animated women that takes 95% of the screen.

But screenshots in your profiles that no one beside few friends visit is so indecent, you gotta think of the children!

Come on, really..

No. Read Valve's rules on User Generated Content. Screenshots fall under that regardless of what kind of logic you try to use.

[I'm_Tired]

引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve：

No. Read Valve's rules on User Generated Content. Screenshots fall under that regardless of what kind of logic you try to use.

So what's the reason behind this rule?

Think of the children is just a terrible excuse with all that lewd contents on front page and tens of thousand users with half naked animated women on their profiles.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

引用自 Sleepy：

引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve：

No. Read Valve's rules on User Generated Content. Screenshots fall under that regardless of what kind of logic you try to use.

So what's the reason behind this rule?

Think of the children is just a terrible excuse with all that lewd contents on front page and tens of thousand users with half naked animated women on their profiles.

Once again whatever twist you want to put on it doesn't matter.

[ShelLuser]

引用自 Sleepy：

There are hundreds of games that shows full nudity and sex here and nude mods are allowed but Steam won't allow their nude screenshot go public.

I don't get it?

Blame the developer or publisher who were cheap or dumb enough not to give the title an adult rating.

The only reason we have adult games is because of the filtering system: you have to explicitly enable this before you can access them. So... enter the non-adult games which can be "uncensored" through a patch, even though the game itself is not marked as adult. So now people who didn't have adult materials enabled can still get confronted with nudity and that is a big no no for Valve.

Had the publisher followed the rules and marked the title as adult and explicit then there wouldn't have been any issues.

Because you can easily share adult screenshots... As long as the game is also marked as adult. Heck... Go check my recent screenshots if you don't believe this 😊

It's not Steam, but the publisher.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Basically games that have nudes, but game not label as adult on store, you don't want to upload nude screenshots to said community.

If want to upload nude screenshots I suggest making them private, or friends only, but keep in mind, if your friends, or game Dev report your screenshots they may get removed, and you get a temp upload ban, as well the ban extends the more screenshots get deleted by support. If you have friends that can not handle seeing nudes screenshot, I suggest only making private so they don't report you.

引用自 Sleepy：

引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve：

No. Read Valve's rules on User Generated Content. Screenshots fall under that regardless of what kind of logic you try to use.

So what's the reason behind this rule?

Think of the children is just a terrible excuse with all that lewd contents on front page and tens of thousand users with half naked animated women on their profiles.

Oh it's not the children really, is just overly sensitive people that want things removed from their view.

Anyways you still have to follow the rules, even if game have nude in it. There always a risk your screen shot get ban if someone report it. My suggestion make it private if you want nude screenshots uploaded on your account.

[Frostbringer]

引用自 SleepyScrub：

引用自 Damp Wizard Sleeve：

No. Read Valve's rules on User Generated Content. Screenshots fall under that regardless of what kind of logic you try to use.

So what's the reason behind this rule?

Think of the children is just a terrible excuse with all that lewd contents on front page and tens of thousand users with half naked animated women on their profiles.

Perhaps Steam doesn’t want players to start using their screen-shot folders as their personal spank-bank.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

引用自 Frostbringer：

Perhaps Steam doesn’t want players to start using their screen-shot folders as their personal spank-bank.

You can take all the screenshots you want of anything, when you take screenshot they're stored locally on your PC, they're not uploaded automatically, they only get upload when you submit them by clicking upload.

[Start_Running]

引用自 Sazzouu：

引用自 Si GNU/Linux：

Because those games give Valve $$$

Then how about the free to play titles among these, Captain Tinfoil?

The players of free to play have a non-zero chance of buying a game. Plus Free to play still has microtransactions.

To the point of the question. Regulations OP. Regulations.

[Crazy Tiger]

Such games are behind age gates, such user generated content is not.

[Brian9824]

引用自 Crazy Tiger：

Such games are behind age gates, such user generated content is not.

Exactly, your free to post those screenshots under the game where anyone accessing them has to go thru the age gate