What's with all the rubbish Hentai titles?

[chriswhite56]

Why are these being pushed so vigorously? I have tried hitting 'ignore' on my queues to indicate that I do NOT want them to appear, but they keep doing so anyway.

As a Gay man, I could not be less interested in them, but even if I were straight, the objectification of women they entail would put me off ever buying them; quite frankly, I find them disgusting.

How do I stop them appearing in my queue?

[TheRandomGuy]

exclude the tags for sexual games.

As for whether or not they're being pushed, it's likely due to Steam's algorithm of putting new-games up for a day or so on the front page under "New and Trending". Also, pretty sure at least a couple people buy them, although the vast majority of them are indeed trash.

[Bongwater Pizza]

Valve stopped giving a single ♥♥♥♥ about the quality of the products they offer. That's what happened.

[Tempest]

The filters don't work.

[Monono]

it happens ever since valve announce this https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082

[Bongwater Pizza]

Valve is also too full of cowardice to do the proper thing by adding an adults only store.

I would never EVER purchase a game made to wank to. But obviously hundreds/thousands of mouth breathers are.

So why the ♥♥♥♥ can't they just do us all a favor, and remove all these stupid garbage porn hentai games; and put them on the adults only store. That way people who own steam to actually purchase games, and not porn, don't have to sift through hundreds of porn titles.

[Orge Lambart]

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

Valve is also too full of cowardice to do the proper thing by adding an adults only store.

I would never EVER purchase a game made to wank to. But obviously hundreds/thousands of mouth breathers are.

So why the ♥♥♥♥ can't they just do us all a favor, and remove all these stupid garbage porn hentai games; and put them on the adults only store. That way people who own steam to actually purchase games, and not porn, don't have to sift through hundreds of porn titles.

I don't think people buy them to WANK to them.. I know I certainly don't.. I happen to enjoy Jigsaw Puzzle games, so I typically buy them up at low prices.. plus I figure buying them will likely be beneficial when Steam finally decides to crack down and ban them all, which will happen eventually.

[TheRandomGuy]

I mean, on one hand, you have a group of people who do buy them, so there IS a market for them, and on the other, you have people that just don't want to see them.

Also, I don't believe they're shown if you're age is below the requirement either.

You can also manually exclude games with the "Sexual Content" tag on Steam. Although given that the tag can cover such a broad range of sexual content (i.e. a scene from Witcher 3), Valve could potentially add in a "H-Game / Hentai Game" Tag for said games, and you could exclude that.

[Bongwater Pizza]

TheRandomGuy の投稿を引用：

I mean, on one hand, you have a group of people who do buy them, so there IS a market for them, and on the other, you have people that just don't want to see them.

This is going to sound incredibly rude...

But the people buying those games can get ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

For a decade steam didn't offer garbage titles like that, and still now their primary source of income isn't garbage VNs and hentia games.

Steam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over their long time customers, who use their platform for games exclusively. It's literally impossible to look at sales now. There is now constantly 100+ pages of games on sale. A good 50% of them are less than 5$, and absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash.

Valve clearly doesnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game market. They're happy to flood it with garbage.

[TheRandomGuy]

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

TheRandomGuy の投稿を引用：

I mean, on one hand, you have a group of people who do buy them, so there IS a market for them, and on the other, you have people that just don't want to see them.

This is going to sound incredibly rude...

But the people buying those games can get ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

For a decade steam didn't offer garbage titles like that, and still now their primary source of income isn't garbage VNs and hentia games.

Steam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over their long time customers, who use their platform for games exclusively. It's literally impossible to look at sales now. There is now constantly 100+ pages of games on sale. A good 50% of them are less than 5$, and absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash.

Valve clearly doesnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game market. They're happy to flood it with garbage.

One man's trash is another man's....well...I can't exactly say treasure with those titles but you get the analogy. There's a market for sexual content oriented games, and as the age-old saying goes, "Sex Sells".

In any case though, I personally have never really seen the bulk of them unless I explicitly look through the "New and Trending" page on the front store, or if I played an "Anime" game then I get the occasional sexual content oriented game, typically not the trashy VNs though, I more or less have to either go to "New and Trending" or explicitly search for them under the "Sexual Content" tag page.

I'm pretty sure you can just exclude the tags and press the "Not-interested" button on the titles to make Steam show less of them.

[Ogami]

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

Valve is also too full of cowardice to do the proper thing by adding an adults only store.

I would never EVER purchase a game made to wank to. But obviously hundreds/thousands of mouth breathers are.

So why the ♥♥♥♥ can't they just do us all a favor, and remove all these stupid garbage porn hentai games; and put them on the adults only store. That way people who own steam to actually purchase games, and not porn, don't have to sift through hundreds of porn titles.

You are confusing 2 kind of games here.
Steam does indeed sell uncensored porn games by now, BUT those games are hidden by default in the store.
You cant see them nor access their store pages without activating the " sexual adult content" option in your account settings.

The games you see on the store that annoy you do not contain any porn. They most of the time do not even contain nudity. They are really not different from any other kind of shovelware you nowadays find on the Steam store in the thousands.

Also there is a big difference between legit Visual Novels and the 99 cent trash that floods the store and is not even from Japanese developers. Just someone slapping a few anime pictures on a puzzle game.

[Zergem]

I never understood why Valve never had the idea that adult games could be on a separate storefront. I guess they just like easy money a bit too much.

[Tito Shivan]

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

For a decade steam didn't offer garbage titles like that, and still now their primary source of income isn't garbage VNs and hentia games.

And for a decade the most asked question on Steam was "Why isn't game X being sold on Steam"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGCyfEYfLks

Zergem の投稿を引用：

I never understood why Valve never had the idea that adult games could be on a separate storefront. I guess they just like easy money a bit too much.

It wouldn't solve the problem here.
People complaining about it anyway, since they'd still be 'on Steam'
And it'd additionally spark the "Why is game X in store A instead of in Store B?" argument.

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

Valve clearly doesnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game market. They're happy to flood it with garbage.

Or they learned that what people say and what people actually do are actually two separate entities.
So instead of gatekeeping content based on what people say they decided not to to and let what people do (The checkout line) be the thing doing the talk instead.

Wallets speak louder than words in business.

[Bongwater Pizza]

Tito Shivan の投稿を引用：

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

Valve clearly doesnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game market. They're happy to flood it with garbage.

Or they learned that what people say and what people actually do are actually two separate entities.
So instead of gatekeeping content based on what people say they decided not to to and let what people do (The checkout line) be the thing doing the talk instead.

Wallets speak louder than words in business.

Tell that to the gaming crash of the 80s. People are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiots, and will buy whatever garbage is placed infront of them.

This would make sense if valve didn't attach a bunch of garbage account mechanics to games. People buy games just to get the badge for them, and to get the cards. Or to get easy achievments. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sickening.

[Bongwater Pizza]

Steam is saturating the market with absolute garbage shovelware. But I guess that's okay because morons are buying it.

[Heehee]

Bongwater Pizza の投稿を引用：

TheRandomGuy の投稿を引用：

I mean, on one hand, you have a group of people who do buy them, so there IS a market for them, and on the other, you have people that just don't want to see them.

This is going to sound incredibly rude...

But the people buying those games can get ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

For a decade steam didn't offer garbage titles like that, and still now their primary source of income isn't garbage VNs and hentia games.

Steam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ over their long time customers, who use their platform for games exclusively. It's literally impossible to look at sales now. There is now constantly 100+ pages of games on sale. A good 50% of them are less than 5$, and absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash.

Valve clearly doesnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the game market. They're happy to flood it with garbage.

The "hentai" games you see cluttering up the steam frontpage aren't VNs or actual erotic games, those games don't come out often enough to be able to clutter up the page like that and are hidden with filter options.