Angelic Chaos RE-BOOT removed from Steam

[Wicked]

I like(d?) Steam but I hate how they allow all kinds of Furry Hitler slops while not allowing Japanese hentai games. https://steamdb.info/app/2674700/history/

[Spawn of Totoro]

Valve doesn't stop/remove a game just because it is a Japanese Hentai game. There are many of those available on Steam already.

If it was Valve, then they may have felt it had child exploitation in it or contains some other illegal content. Give they seem to bee school girls in the game, that may be possible.

Or the developer could have changed their mind as well and may choose a different platform for it. I can't find any post stating it was removed by Valve, at this time. Could also be they put the game on hold for Steam release and may intend to bring it latter. Looks like the release date changed a few times.

[Wicked]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

If it was Valve, then they may have felt it had child exploitation in it or contains some other illegal content. Give they seem to bee school girls in the game, that may be possible.

I mean it's not illegal as in actual illegal (not Twitter like illegal) in many countries/states, it maybe against Steam TOS, but they should like change it and let countries themselves to ban certain games.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Rizibizi:

I mean it's not illegal as in actual illegal (not Twitter like illegal) in many countries/states, it maybe against Steam TOS, but they should like change it and let countries themselves to ban certain games.

It actually is illegal in quite a few places. Even hosting such content, even where it is legally allowed, would get them into trouble.

If Valve doesn't want a backlash from such content (and it would be a huge backlash), then they are not going to change their minds, regardless of the legal status.

[Wicked]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

It actually is illegal in quite a few places. Even hosting such content, even where it is legally allowed, would get them into trouble.

If Valve doesn't want a backlash from such content (and it would be a huge backlash), then they are not going to change their minds, regardless of the legal status.

In most contries it may illegal in the way, no one can delate since no real person involved. Lolicon is only really illegal in China and France. Besides a lot of other stuff are available that are illegal in certain countries.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Rizibizi:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

It actually is illegal in quite a few places. Even hosting such content, even where it is legally allowed, would get them into trouble.

If Valve doesn't want a backlash from such content (and it would be a huge backlash), then they are not going to change their minds, regardless of the legal status.

In most contries it may illegal in the way, no one can delate since no real person involved. Lolicon is only really illegal in China and France. Besides a lot of other stuff are available that are illegal in certain countries.

Does Valve have any CDN servers in France? If so, then yes they could face criminal charges if something is that illegal.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Originally posted by Rizibizi:

In most contries it may illegal in the way, no one can delate since no real person involved. Lolicon is only really illegal in China and France. Besides a lot of other stuff are available that are illegal in certain countries.

It honestly isn't even worth discussing, let alone arguing about. It isn't going to happen, nor change.

You feel free to get the game elsewhere, because if there is a possibility of it having what it seems, based on what you said and what I can see of the game's trailer, it won't be on here.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by Rizibizi:

I mean it's not illegal as in actual illegal (not Twitter like illegal) in many countries/states, it maybe against Steam TOS, but they should like change it and let countries themselves to ban certain games.

It actually is illegal in quite a few places.

Just like false advertising, but that they don't seem to care about.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Valve doesn't stop/remove a game just because it is a Japanese Hentai game. There are many of those available on Steam already.

It's well known within the Japanese localisation industry that Valve do have a prejudice against Japanese content. Or more specifically, certain members of the staff. The inclusion of outright sex doesn't even factor into it all the time. Valve have refused to release "all-ages" Japanese games, too.

For that matter, when Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star Deluxe released, Valve were the only ones to demand a non-sexual scene be edited. Both Sony and Nintendo allowed the scene in its original form.

But yes, ask any company that specifically focuses on Japanese content and Steam release and many, if not all, will have a story to tell about the problems of getting games released on Steam. (For the record, I worked for one such company while they were dealing with this exact problem for a game that didn't even feature sex in it).

[rawWwRrr]

And Valve has no obligation to host any game on their Steam platform. They don't even need to give a reason.

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Rizibizi:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

If it was Valve, then they may have felt it had child exploitation in it or contains some other illegal content. Give they seem to bee school girls in the game, that may be possible.

I mean it's not illegal as in actual illegal (not Twitter like illegal) in many countries/states, it maybe against Steam TOS, but they should like change it and let countries themselves to ban certain games.

pedo alert?

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Pierce Dalton:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

It actually is illegal in quite a few places.

Just like false advertising, but that they don't seem to care about.

You compare something that is treated legally the same as the real deal and gets you arrested and put in prison for a long time with your opinion about advertising?

[Slav Mcgopnik]

So I did some research into the supposed “hatred to Japanese games” Valve has and all I got back was how they were cutting out underage or underage looking girls from games because they didn’t want to grapple with the potential legal issues.

Plus the games like to dodge around exactly what got censored and use general posts to try and cover it up, which they then use to try and make themselves victims because their underage girl sex game got censored.

[V Knives]

It becomes harder to support steam every day. The loli haters must be removed.

[Mantis]

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Valve doesn't stop/remove a game just because it is a Japanese Hentai game. There are many of those available on Steam already.

If it was Valve, then they may have felt it had child exploitation in it or contains some other illegal content.

Nah, lol. When Valve gleefully allows games like the following onto Steam while banning Japanese VNs because they have school uniform or something, it only makes them look like a bunch of paedos, let's be honest.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by Mantis:

Nah, lol. When Valve gleefully allows games like the following onto Steam while banning Japanese VNs because they have school uniform or something.

Valve is a bit inconsistent when it comes to Japanese eroge. For example:

This is fine.
The sequel, which contains the same kind of content is not okay, but...

The demo of the sequel is fine.

It's all well and good that adult content is allowed on Steam, but the vagueness of the rules makes releasing them on Steam a risky proposition. Many developers stay away from anything even remotely resembling anything that could be considered a school and give all characters enormous breasts to erase any possible question as to whether or not the entirely fictional characters are over the age of 18.

Another difficult thing is that once Valve has decided a game isn't allowed on Steam for content reasons, there's no appeal. There's no making adjustments and resubmitting. It's just banned, and only in exceptional circumstances when enough people make complaints will they rarely go back on their decision, which is what happened with these games:



Public outcry about a banned Japanese eroge is unlikely to be heard though, since anyone calling for a reversal of a ban is immediately labeled a paedophile, and trying to defend oneself against such a vile public accusation is distressing, to say the least. Most people will just keep their mouths shut to avoid becoming a target.