Create an Alternative Platform for the "Porn" Games

[Baconbits]

Some of us don't like seeing porn unless we've specifically searched for it and others have kids. Either way I'm sure I'm not the only one who is getting tired of seeing this softcore anime porn being advertized on the front page.

Steam is supposed to be a community involving games, groups, gamers, and gamer kids; not a community revolving around masturbation games.

People have their specific tastes and that's fine and there's a time and place for porn, but let's be real and all agree that steam is not the place for porn of any kind.

If steam is going to continue selling smut on their platform I would humbly ask that an alternative "adult" version of the steam platform be created so that those of us who don't want to see porn everyday or wish to keep it away from their young kids can do so.


P.S. IDK why this stuff even exists on steam. The viewers are obviously not getting the satisfaction they want because of censorship; steam is a public place and there are restrictions because of that. Let's make both parties happy by creating/finding an appropriate place for this inappropriate material.

[ KARR™]

You'll have to get rid of everything that is over 18 too then. Doom, GTA5, Battlefield, Call of Duty should be gone too.

[Baconbits]

Not necessarily, there's a pretty clear difference between the graphical focus and the mission objectives of the games you mentioned vs. the softcore-porn dating games.

Besides, the purpose of the idea isn't for steam to edit and restructure the games themselves to shoot for specific rating; it is merely a reorganization of the store by placing dating/porn games into their own catergory. So that the catergory can be allowed or disallowed by the user if you're account is verified as 18+ or whatever the game's rating requires.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

How about stuff like the Witcher series? Lots of very explicit sex and sexual themes going on, but it's not a porn game. Pretty much every M rated game has sex in it at some point. Yes, you would need to remove ALL OF THEM from the store. Think of the children you're saving from being exposed to such indecency.

I honestly don't know how these people keep finding nothing but "softcore anime porn" if they claim they're not actively looking for it. Yea I see some visual novels and other suggestive looking games in the front page from time to time but it's far from the "hentai has taken over Steam" as some people preach.

[Baconbits]

I just don't see what the problem is in moving it into it's own catergory. It opens the door for loose rules for the Pro-porn people and it keeps it out of sight for the people who don't appreciate it or have kids using their account. I call that a win win for both parties.

You wouldn't like it if on your facebook you were subject to my or anybody else's porn flavor. Why should I be subject to yours or anybody's on my steam pages?

Porn should be by itself in it's own place away from other activies and ideas; that's where it belongs. Not mixed in with minecraft and other unrelated titles.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Unless it involves a 3rd party patch, there are no "porn" games on Steam. Even then, the 3rd party download negates them from being on Steam since nothing can be done about how a user handles his/her files after reciving them.

A child should not be using your account. They should be on their own, restricted account. My 6/yo has his account with family view enabled and shares my library through family sharing. I would not give in access to my own account.

Family views allows you to limit:

Online content & features
Steam store
Community-generated content
Friends, chat and groups
Online profile, screenshots, and achievements

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

Because it's not porn. That's why.

What you're saying is basically "remove the games I don't like from the store".

Or are you going to tell me busty cartoon girls with cat ears doing dumb stuff has to be labelled porn, but a man going to a brothel and having it with a woman, with everything going on being visible and audible is not actually porn?

Two out of three Witcher games start with the protagonist lying next to a naked woman with uncensored breasts floating around, while they talk about how they should keep going. So just answer me. Are these games going to be moved in with the other supposed porn games or not?

To help you answer, keep in mind that screenshots from these games featuring scenes similar to the ones I just described are known to be flagged and deleted from people's profiles, while busty catgirls are considered safe by Valve's staff and moderators.

[Baconbits]

I think it largely depends on the goal of the game TBH.

Witcher 3 is supposed to be a believable story about a guy who kills monsters & bad guys, has lovers, and occasionally runs into arroused women. The inappropriate content isn't the game's goal it's just a part of trying to tell a believable story; with the content maybe adding up to 1-4% of the total game's content.

On the other hand. Sakura beach an the like are specifically about objectifying women's body parts, convincing them to date you, and trying to see them naked or what have you. 100% of the content is revolved around drawing the user's attention to a woman's figure for the purposes of arrousal.

Video game = guy who does stuff and occasionally runs into women for realism
Witcher

Porn game = game entirely focused on sexual tention, teasing, human body parts, fake dates, and other sexually related content.
Sakura Beach

[Tempest]

It would be nice if the filters in the discovery queue actually worked. My queue consistently shows anime games despite anime games being selected as games I want to filter out.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Nguyên văn bởi Baconbits:

Porn game = game entirely focused on sexual tention, teasing, human body parts, fake dates, and other sexually related content.
Sakura Beach

Sakura Beach is not porn.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pornography

Lewed, possibly, but not porn.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lewd

Of the complaints that the fans of Sakura series have is the lack of nudity, let alone the rest of porn involves, unless people get the patch from the developer.

One issue is that there is no clear line as to what is appropriate and what is not. If game is rated 17+ or Adult, there are violent games that are also rated as such, so we can't use that as a metric.

Having watched some play videos of most the game people call "porn" (yes, I've argued this before) I don't see such content in the Steam version of those games.

[Lily]

Nguyên văn bởi Baconbits:

Not necessarily, there's a pretty clear difference between the graphical focus and the mission objectives of the games you mentioned vs. the softcore-porn dating games.

indeed, brutal murder is rather more offensive than an all-ages "dating simulator."

[Praxcelis]

Okay with extreme violence? But nudity burns your eyes? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[ErickaUnlimited]

Nguyên văn bởi Praxcelis:

Okay with extreme violence? But nudity burns your eyes? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Probably, but apparently the most offensive thing on Steam are breasts. The horror!

[76561198001062896]

I just love how ppl are demonising nudity

Hypocrisy at its finest, because kids surely havent seen any on Television
but murder simulators are okay

[Deefish]

I too would like to be able to filter this guff out. I don't need to see it, and just now as I opened the New Releases list to find the new indie game World To The West with my school age son, the game above it in the list is called Porno Studio Tycoon. Of course the first thing he said was "Porno on Steam!?"..

http://store.steampowered.com/app/535490/Porno_Studio_Tycoon/?snr=1_4_4__tab-PopularNewReleases

This is a serious misstep by Valve. It should be easier to filter store results. The settings page just needs some tick boxes to say dont show results that are 12+, 15+, 18+ and then everyone's happy!

[Baconbits]

Or a filter for specfically sexually driven content. I personally still want 18+ games, but I don't need or see the point of having porn or porn-related content on my steam library; when my browser is doing a good job all by itself.

I also personally like my life to be ordered in a way that makes sense. So I can easily find what I want when I want it.

Meaning; I want my video games to be actual video games, I want my porn to be with other porn in the porn section WHEN I'm looking for porn, and I want work (job simulators) to stay at work.