Move adult content to it's own platform

[MedusaNXS]

I'm not against those who want to play these games, having access. But can you please provide them a dedicated platform and make an appropriate - ADULT ONLY - platform for it? People are pushing the envelope farther and farther on what is considered 'okay' on this platform. Every other game is inappropriate content - and I don't mean 'guns, and violence'. 'College girls', sexual dating sims..etc. It's overwhelming.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

Messaggio originale di Stabra Kedabra Alakablam:

Video games have been crusaded against by the "think of the children" crowd for decades now. Really, they just dislike anything that influences their kids in a manner that doesn't produce a mindless "do as I say" drone.

Rock and roll, movies, television, video games, magazines, etc.

All of your statements are assumptions.

Literally not there's been a pattern for decades of people trying to censor media under the premise of "think of the kids."

Look up the name Jack Thompson.

You're perfectly capable of disabling the ability to see adult content on your account, so...why aren't you?

[MedusaNXS]

Messaggio originale di SlowMango:

If anything, allowing them made the platform more about video games since the diversity of the medium is now more accurately reflected.

I can disagree with this statement. This platform now hosts porn, movies/series, and games. Where as the platform would accurately reflect just video games - if it stuck to just video games. Removing porn from a general videos section does not make a video store any less about videos. It just doesn't provide that service. This was not a platform for porn and videos when I signed up - and now I'm tied to the platform. But I can ask that they address the parts that I don't agree with.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

Messaggio originale di SlowMango:

If anything, allowing them made the platform more about video games since the diversity of the medium is now more accurately reflected.

I can disagree with this statement. This platform now hosts porn, movies/series, and games. Where as the platform would accurately reflect just video games - if it stuck to just video games. Removing porn from a general videos section does not make a video store any less about videos. It just doesn't provide that service. This was not a platform for porn and videos when I signed up - and now I'm tied to the platform. But I can ask that they address the parts that I don't agree with.

It doesn't hosts porn movies.

It literally hosts video games and OSTs(I think still) which pornographic games fall into that category.

Platforms evolve and change. Amazon used to only be a book buy/rental service. By your logic, they should've never branches out because when people first signed up it was just book purchases and rentals.

Steam doesn't have porn games with the general games unless you opt into seeing them.

[MedusaNXS]

Messaggio originale di Stabra Kedabra Alakablam:

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

All of your statements are assumptions.

Literally not there's been a pattern for decades of people trying to censor media under the premise of "think of the kids."

Look up the name Jack Thompson.

You're perfectly capable of disabling the ability to see adult content on your account, so...why aren't you?

"You may not like the answer I'm about to give…
A lot of the hangup about porn games on Steam in general are often from one of two categories:…"
These are assumptions. And they're all your statements. There were others, but those are two examples.
You are no less capable to get your porn on a purely made for porn platform. If you don't like the suggestion, move on with your day.
No one here is trying to make senseless drones of children. But there's a reasonable amount of common sense that if it's so simple to 'check a box' it's just as simple to 'uncheck a box', where as a platform that clearly states "this is for adult content" would be entirely unavailable to people who should not have access to it. But that isn't even my gripe.
The amount of porn will soon overcome and overwhelm actual video games, the ones not made for a small group of people. The ones that take years to develop. I mentioned a number of the daily suggestions were just interactive porn. Make a platform for those games if it's such a huge base of your players. Regardless, as I stated - this is becoming the DA of gaming platforms. And I don't want to lose Steam to it.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

Messaggio originale di Stabra Kedabra Alakablam:

Literally not there's been a pattern for decades of people trying to censor media under the premise of "think of the kids."

Look up the name Jack Thompson.

You're perfectly capable of disabling the ability to see adult content on your account, so...why aren't you?

"You may not like the answer I'm about to give…
A lot of the hangup about porn games on Steam in general are often from one of two categories:…"
These are assumptions. And they're all your statements. There were others, but those are two examples.
You are no less capable to get your porn on a purely made for porn platform. If you don't like the suggestion, move on with your day.
No one here is trying to make senseless drones of children. But there's a reasonable amount of common sense that if it's so simple to 'check a box' it's just as simple to 'uncheck a box', where as a platform that clearly states "this is for adult content" would be entirely unavailable to people who should not have access to it. But that isn't even my gripe.
The amount of porn will soon overcome and overwhelm actual video games, the ones not made for a small group of people. The ones that take years to develop. I mentioned a number of the daily suggestions were just interactive porn. Make a platform for those games if it's such a huge base of your players. Regardless, as I stated - this is becoming the DA of gaming platforms. And I don't want to lose Steam to it.

So you're resorting to slippery slope fallacy. Right.

First, restricting adult content from access of children is pretty easy, namely because there's family settings. however, most people who MAKE this complaint, NEVER use them.


Secondly: Your suggested games often come from an algorithm from your browsing and purchase history, it's not yet a perfect system.

[Tanoomba]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

This was not a platform for porn and videos when I signed up - and now I'm tied to the platform. But I can ask that they address the parts that I don't agree with.

But you can turn it off (it's off by default) and never see any of it. Why do you care what other people have access to?

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

The amount of porn will soon overcome and overwhelm actual video games, the ones not made for a small group of people.

But if you never see them or even know of their existence, so what? You turned off the filter you knew was there to prevent you from seeing things you didn't necessarily want to see, just to look at it anyway and get upset that it even exists. Just use the filter. That's why it's there.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Messaggio originale di Tanoomba:

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

This was not a platform for porn and videos when I signed up - and now I'm tied to the platform. But I can ask that they address the parts that I don't agree with.

But you can turn it off (it's off by default) and never see any of it. Why do you care what other people have access to?

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

The amount of porn will soon overcome and overwhelm actual video games, the ones not made for a small group of people.

But if you never see them or even know of their existence, so what? You turned off the filter you knew was there to prevent you from seeing things you didn't necessarily want to see, just to see it anyway and get upset that it even exists. Just use the filter. That's why it's there.

You can literally choose how much you filter out, no less. So you could do slight nudity, for certain games that have quick little scenes like RDR2 and whatnot. Or you could filter out/allow extreme adult-only nudity, which of course, are the porn games.

[Sikobae]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

If you don't like the suggestion, you can ignore it. That's the beauty of the internet.

Imagine making this thread and then saying this.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

Move people who promote censorship to their own platform.

[76561197960287930]

Hey OP I agree! And move porn Steam User Groups, Hentai PORN ROOM, CSGO and TF2 user inventory and Steam Market and trade so people don't have to be overwhelmed with daily RU chat bot phishing scams and CN user posted porn too.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I utterly disagree unless Steam is willing to rebuy all my games on their second platform, I will not pay the games that I already have here, there's no if's, and's or but's about it, so I could agree to a new platform, only cost will come off of Steams end as I'm not rebuying what I already own.

[Tito Shivan]

Messaggio originale di MedusaNXS:

No one is saying they can't be made, or can't be sold in general. It's a suggestion about moving them elsewhere, that's all.

The thing is 'moving them elsewhere' doesn't really solve the problem, because the subject is not black and white.

OK, Steam has moved all the 'adult only' titles to their own platform. But then there's 'all the other' games which 'aren't adult only, but'. (IE: Adult only games sold censored in the platform)
Thus there's going to be people still requiring 'adult content' to be moved there.

Just like having and 'adults only' section on video-stores didn't stop some people from complaining about the store having 'movies showing a pair of breasts or a naked lady' in the non-adult-only sections.

And that not even considering how having its own store can also result in a loss of perks for customers (Maybe people buy these games here because they value having them IN Steam)

[Lade]

Why not the other way around, make a Steam for kids. There would be many more ways to make it age-appropriate, disable trading, no forums or whatever the parents would like and adults don't have to be patronized.

What does the OP actually say about Family View? Would I be interested then? Do they use it? is it not enough for you?

[lightwo]

Messaggio originale di Lade:

Why not the other way around, make a Steam for kids. There would be many more ways to make it age-appropriate, disable trading, no forums or whatever the parents would like and adults don't have to be patronized

It's already a thing, look into Family View.

[lightwo]

Messaggio originale di WolfEisberg:

Messaggio originale di Wynters:

I said it multiple times before, make a XXX Steam section for adults-only and have people validate their identities.

Completely agree with this. The fact that a 13 year old, technically younger if they just click the button saying "I am 13" has easy and unsupervised access to porn on Steam is not a good thing and Valve really should do the morally right thing and require age certification, by the way of an ID, to open up access to it.

"Protect the children!"

What prevents a child from taking their parent's ID? That's been done so many times, proving how ineffective and privacy-invasive it is.

If you want to protect your children, what are you doing, then? Be a responsible parent. There's even the Family View feature I pointed out earlier.

Think of it this way. How many customers would be pissed off by this change? As you can see, it is something Valve wouldn't ever dare doing.

Please stop buying into ridiculous solutions of this scale. They help nobody.