Adults Only section on the Steam Store

[Seagal]

It seems like the more and more games with adults only content are appearing on Steam now. Games are recieving uncensor patches or coming straight uncensored to begin with. Perhaps it's time we have an Adults Only section on the Steam Store?

I'm just throwing stuff out there, but it could be called Steam Red-Light or something.

It would have Adult games, Hentai, all available to purchase or stream.

Just think, you would see more games getting officially translated, and uncensored. More hentai licensed for western release with no mosaics. I dunno. I think it would be huge, and something so many studios would get behind.

I think it would be a win-win for everyone involved, and I think it might be time to break down that wall.

What does everyone think about something like this happening?

[Reported.]

Messaggio originale di Washell:

If Amazon exclusive sold kids toys and adult items, they'd be sued.

And Valve, time and time again, for many different things, only does things when it hurts their bottom line, or after a massive backlash. So the status quo will remain, since many people seem content with how things are atm, and Valve will *only* do something if one of those things happen.

Valve doesn't want to get Steam banned from a bunch of countries because they have an adult section with no actual way to stop kids from getting in.

Which makes sense for them in an economic sense to just let everything through (they had zero compunction in the past to stop asset flips through, and they only get removed when heaps of people complain). The market forces control whats sold, anyway. If people like something, they will buy it. No matter what it is.

Having an adult section is not in Valve's commercial interests.

Times are changing, and It realy feels like Steam will end up at a point where there are no restrictions on what content creators can or can not release. It's like the door is already open, just no one has walked through it yet.

Valve said numerous times they want a more open marketplace. Its in their commercial interests to let anything through and somehow their algorithms will make it possible for people to curate the store themselves. Like a pig's trough instead of a retail store.

[Seagal]

Messaggio originale di MrL0G1C:

Messaggio originale di Radene:

One, there are no "sex games" on Steam and third-party modifications are independent of Steam and carry no legal liability for Steam.

Two, I agree, sex is problematic, we should just let our children play murder simulators like CS: GO to protect their innocent minds.

Apparently there are now, http://store.steampowered.com/app/611790/House_Party/ Scathing review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVNyudNLfM4

PS.. Features blackmail for sex and date rape fully uncensored according to mac.

I mentioned that game earlier. I mean, if that game is allowed on Steam then why can't any other adult game?

I think it's great Valve allowed that game on the stores personally, but I think they need to be consistent here from now on with the content they allow.

Make titles with graphic sexual content require an opt-in to have appear on the store. It keeps it off the stores for people who don't want them, and hopefully allows more of these games to release.

[cinedine]

House Party is a shocker. Just as Hatred was.
If you acutally bother to read some of the reviews, the game itself is nothing to speak of. Its only merit is the "controversy". By bringing it up in these kind of discussions you are giving it exposure.

[MrL0G1C]

Messaggio originale di cinedine:

House Party is a shocker. Just as Hatred was.
If you acutally bother to read some of the reviews, the game itself is nothing to speak of. Its only merit is the "controversy". By bringing it up in these kind of discussions you are giving it exposure.

I only mention it because mac reviewed it and I don't know how explicit other steam games are, it's a good example of a bad game that's sexually explicit in a bad way, Leisure Suit Larry sweet talked iirc, but in this game every wrong method to get sex is used.

Anyway, having a tick box hidden away in settings wouldn't be a bad idea, steam already has some kind of parental controls, I don't know how they work but I'm guessing they could be expanded to cover this if they don't already.

[Bekhor]

This is a family site. Take yourself to a porn site. The fact that you even want adult stuff on a site thats geared towards kids is sick and I bet you would not go around public admitting it.

[Seagal]

Messaggio originale di Bekhor:

This is a family site. Take yourself to a porn site. The fact that you even want adult stuff on a site thats geared towards kids is sick and I bet you would not go around public admitting it.

Is it a family site? because the content being sold would say otherwise. The community groups and content being share and distributed within them would say otherwise.

I think you'd have a hard time finding many people who share your opinion that Steam is a platform geared towards kids.

Do you know what the average age of a gamer is these days? Why don't you go look it up.

[cinedine]

Messaggio originale di Bekhor:

This is a family site. Take yourself to a porn site. The fact that you even want adult stuff on a site thats geared towards kids is sick and I bet you would not go around public admitting it.

Steam is geared towards people who spend money on it. Which is not kids. It's the average gamers, which as various studies show is 30-31 years old, and people with disposable income.
It's not kids who pester their parents to buy them the newest video game.

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Wouldn't it a better idea to make whole steam "Adults only" and implement a parental control? Like its sorted in every other normal mediabase.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Messaggio originale di Seagal:

Messaggio originale di Quint the Glowing Bitter Oyster:

I'll support this idea only if people will support shoving violent/gory/otherwise "mature" games like Hatred, GTA, Party Hard, etc. into this section.

Deal? :P

I'd agree with that when it comes to Hatred, but not GTA or that Party Hard game.

GTA and Party Hard have been rated M by the ESRB. Hatred is rated AO, and it very much deserves such a rating. It would be for AO games, or games that haven't been rated, but are clearly AO games.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't buy a game like GTA even for a teenager. They can learn about violence, gangs, drugs, and hookers on their own if they really want to; I'm certainly not in the mood to help them along with it. In short, to me, they're "clearly AO".

How about that? :P

My point being, I don't like a double standard that says that sexuality is only for adults and should be kept away from the dear little children while people -- often said dear little children who are actually obnoxious teenagers with an immaturely rebellious edginess -- scream petulantly about "censorship" or whatever when Steam tries to avoid having to sell a game that are (at least meant) for mature audiences in other ways such as with regards to violence and gore.

Frankly speaking, it's my opinion that Steam shouldn't ever have explicitly allowed anyone younger than 16 onto the site. And that's even with parental supervision. Of course, there's no way for Steam to police this. Just like there's no way for pretty much anyone to enforce age restrictions on pretty much any webspace thing. "I know it when I see it" has its limits, unfortunately.

Messaggio originale di cinedine:

House Party is a shocker. Just as Hatred was.
If you acutally bother to read some of the reviews, the game itself is nothing to speak of. Its only merit is the "controversy". By bringing it up in these kind of discussions you are giving it exposure.

Sadly, memes sell. I don't like it either. This goes for both "innocent" memes like Youtuber-branded games as well as blatantly controversy-baiting meme games like these, or the recent "Feminazi: the Triggering". All stuff I wouldn't ever want to buy, but sadly for my tastes, someone else likes this stuff.

[LightyKD]

I also agree that Steam needs an Adults Only section. It's way past time.

[Kuzai]

*Weedles in* Well I couldn't help but facepalm when I saw someone say "Video games are for kids!" Really now? Alright buy your child these games I will list:

PlayHome - Illusion

Honey Select - Illusion

Custom Reido series 1-5 - KISS

Custom Ai Droid - REAL

Musumakeup - Illusion

SchoolMate 2 - Illusion

Custom Maid 3D 1-2 - KISS

Virtual Stalker - Fulltime

Love Death FINAL - Teatime

RealPlay - Illusion

Play Club - Illusion

Now that you have the list, buy your kids these games then tell us how much you believe all video games are for kids.

PS. I highly approve of an adult section on Steam, not every game is rated E for Everyone.

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

I'm not sure that was worth necroing a year old thread for. But since the thread is back at the top, I'm not really for it, but I'm for it getting called "steam redlight" if it ever was a thing.

[MrL0G1C]

My vote:
Strange Steam Porn Section

[dynastystar]

If they do introduce an adults-only section(which as people said, isn't gonna happen), I want it so that games on there can be put on there without needing an uncensor patch. and House Party is fairly tame in comparison to House Party as I recall. Also, that video you linked is supposed to be comedy and his videos are not to be taken seriously(which back when I was originally subscribed to him, I did take him seriously until I was told that I shouldn't be the channel's account itself).