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jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 3:24
Nudity/Sexual Content in Steam games
What is Steam's actual policy on Nudity in games? For example, The Witcher III has sex scenes... but some games featuring topless anime girls aren't featured. What is the clear extent of what can be published on steam?
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ReBoot 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 6:46 
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
引用自 aiusepsi
You're not allowed to put pornography on Steam (as per this documentation page)

Of course, then you have the question of what exactly constitutes pornography; just containing a sex scene doesn't make something pornography, necessarily, even if it contains people without clothes on. Plenty of Hollywood movies have sex scenes, and they're not generally considered pornography. I think most people wouldn't call something like "Blue is the Warmest Colour" pornography, even though that has incredibly graphic (and very, very long) sex scenes.

In 1964, a US Supreme Court justice said this:



So it's tricky to define, and may well end up being somewhat subjective. Unfortunately, the other side of coin from "subjective" is "arbitrary and capricious".
“You are not allowed to put pornography on Steam”.
Gta5
Witcher 3
Both have explicit sex. Double standards?
They are clearly targeting “anime” games.
As i said before, maybe its just the question of sex being a major (or the main) component of the piece of art or being a part of a larger piece of art thats, well, not all about sex. As i said, both TW and GTA have way more to tzem, while your typical anime (soft) porn VN has as much plot a typical porn movie.
PS: Doubleposting is a bad idea on forums.
最後修改者:ReBoot; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 6:46
Pan Paka Pan 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 6:49 
引用自 ReBoot
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
“You are not allowed to put pornography on Steam”.
Gta5
Witcher 3
Both have explicit sex. Double standards?
They are clearly targeting “anime” games.
As i said before, maybe its just the question of sex being a major (or the main) component of the piece of art or being a part of a larger piece of art thats, well, not all about sex. As i said, both TW and GTA have way more to tzem, while your typical anime (soft) porn VN has as much plot a typical porn movie.
PS: Doubleposting is a bad idea on forums.
Apologies for the double, but I’m on mobile, and it takes too much time to edit posts or select the correct parts of text to quote.
Again, depends on each VN, can’t generalize.
ReBoot 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 6:55 
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
引用自 ReBoot
As i said before, maybe its just the question of sex being a major (or the main) component of the piece of art or being a part of a larger piece of art thats, well, not all about sex. As i said, both TW and GTA have way more to tzem, while your typical anime (soft) porn VN has as much plot a typical porn movie.
PS: Doubleposting is a bad idea on forums.
Apologies for the double, but I’m on mobile, and it takes too much time to edit posts or select the correct parts of text to quote.
Again, depends on each VN, can’t generalize.
Fair point. My personal opinion is that the US should finally get a country-wide therapy, their attitude to sex in media is sick. Overly conservative in the public to the point of giving young people, especially women, life-long mental issues due to sex ed being governed by extremely conservative people not giving a toot aboit actual human psyhology while theres night TV stuff thats raunchier than most of M DVDs. Extremes for the win! Germany at least had some good headwash during the recent years so they dont flip themselves over anymore when a game lets you kill someone.
As far as my other personal opinion goes, VNs tend to be cheap wank material. A huge problem is of course that while there are some that are art, they dont look, on the surface, much different from porn. Dont want to say that Valve are doing the right thing here (as i and others said before, theres a bigger fish to fry), but the comparison to TW and GTA still blows for the beforementioned reason.
最後修改者:ReBoot; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 7:05
aiusepsi 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 6:58 
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
Both have explicit sex. Double standards?.
Did you read more than the first sentence of my post? Just having explicit sex doesn't necessarily make a work pornography.

I presented the example of the film "Blue is the Warmest Colour", which isn't considered pornography despite containing very graphic sex scenes. An even more extreme example might be Lars von Trier's "Nymphomanic".

Context matters, and it's subjective.
kaibarnard 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 7:03 
引用自 ReBoot
To he honest, your typical (soft) porn anime VN has a specific trait thats not shared by GTA or The Witcher: Its pretty much nothing but nudity/raunchy topics. While they (the VNs) usually pretend to have a plot, its about as important or deep as this of movies usually considered porn: A poor excuse for providing wank material.
I agree though that broken games are a bigger concern, than cheap porn and should be solved first (assuming the second even needs solving).

Ok you know this how? I mean yes thoese kinda games probably exist, but to tar every VN with that brush is pretty harsh. And so what? So what if someone wants to 'play a game' for anime tiddies with no more plot then the plumber coming to clean the drains porno, so what?

It's up to steam to sell, or not sell it, it's up to the buyer to buy or not buy it. Steam is, IMHO, sitting on the fence, fingers in ears chanting 'la,lal,la,la,la'

It either embraces VN, or doesn't. It either accepts that there are anime tiddies and they exisit in games, or it doesn't.

Paypal also needs to grow the feck up, and stop being 'oh noes pR0n' I mean it will let me buy Debbie does Dallas, but has an issue with some cartoon pootang? Why? (EDIT: And before we start 'that' debate over 18 catonn pootang which isn't in anyway CLEARLY not 18 and not just someones opinon of looks under 18 as they don't like the style)

I'm sorry this is morality and misunderstanding and a dash of pedo crisis all rolled into one.

I'd be happy for steam to lock this content, and witcher and GTA all off in their own little sections, and make us prove our ages before they unlock these areas, and you pick which areas are open, and how and when

Make it easy for people who don't want to see thinigs not see things, I mean I know that involves steam taking an active interest on what goes on in it;s store....

Thing is, it won't happen, steam will leave it as it is, and after MiM or similar launch another stupid salvo we'll have the same stupid debate - but change nothing
最後修改者:kaibarnard; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 7:05
Pan Paka Pan 2018 年 5 月 28 日 上午 7:04 
引用自 aiusepsi
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
Both have explicit sex. Double standards?.
Did you read more than the first sentence of my post? Just having explicit sex doesn't necessarily make a work pornography.

I presented the example of the film "Blue is the Warmest Colour", which isn't considered pornography despite containing very graphic sex scenes. An even more extreme example might be Lars von Trier's "Nymphomanic".

Context matters, and it's subjective.
I read your post and understand it perfectly fine, however most VNs on Steam are censored to comply with Steam, therefore removing the “pornographic” content. By doing that, Steam allowed them to exist. However, now they don’t know anymore if they can exist as they are in the process of re-reviewing it.
In my opinion, the problem is not the existence of sex, the problem (they are seeing) is the anime art style which resembles younger persons, therefore making it a reason (in their eyes) to removal, even with censorship.
There are obviously big groups behind it. MiM just claimed victory right after Steam letter.
I think the big problem is that they won’t stop in VNs. Eventually they will target other games, even western games like GTA (even if they are not pornographic, but it contains sex).
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:17 
Okay... you can definitely buy pornographic and/or sex toys or whatever with PayPal.

My question is more to protect the developers - you may have a story arch in a game that leads to frontal nudity. I don't see how it is different from having extremely accurate "killing sims". Developers would have better parameters of their art budget on if it was clearly outlined. I don't see how boobs are worse than car jacking someone, stomping them to death, and killing cops in GTA. Is brutal depiction of a guy's head exploding worse than boobs? We have UFC games... where you can literally fantasize about playing as Cain Vasquez and beating peoples faces into a pulp and causing brain damage, but anime women are a concern. So the issue is that the anime women look like minors?
最後修改者:jasontatemusic; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:26
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:28 
引用自 node357
there are laws, and the laws are there to protect the innocent from the unethical. valve doesn't ban stuff on a whim, and they adapt to obey the laws in every region operate in. if you want to lobby to change the laws that prevent access to games you want, go ahead. unless your local laws explicitly forbid you from lobbying.
This still doesn't clearly answer my question. I mean I guess... regionally, yeah. In a lot of countries women can't even show their bodies/faces.
最後修改者:jasontatemusic; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:30
kaibarnard 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:29 
Node - what laws are being broken, if LAWS were being broken the game wouldn't be on steam - this is morality being broken - not a law
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:31 
In an adult story... let's take Game of Thrones for example, A Song of Ice and Fire... characters having sex are huge driving points of the plot. The series shows Khaleesi being "taken" by Khal Drago and she learned to love him. It was achieving 18-30 million viewers at one time. I don't see how it is different from a book or screenplay.
最後修改者:jasontatemusic; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:34
kaibarnard 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:35 
Thoses weren't cartoon tiddies - ironically the chatcter she plays is underage in the books
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:36 
引用自 ReBoot
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
Apologies for the double, but I’m on mobile, and it takes too much time to edit posts or select the correct parts of text to quote.
Again, depends on each VN, can’t generalize.
Fair point. My personal opinion is that the US should finally get a country-wide therapy, their attitude to sex in media is sick. Overly conservative in the public to the point of giving young people, especially women, life-long mental issues due to sex ed being governed by extremely conservative people not giving a toot aboit actual human psyhology while theres night TV stuff thats raunchier than most of M DVDs. Extremes for the win! Germany at least had some good headwash during the recent years so they dont flip themselves over anymore when a game lets you kill someone.
As far as my other personal opinion goes, VNs tend to be cheap wank material. A huge problem is of course that while there are some that are art, they dont look, on the surface, much different from porn. Dont want to say that Valve are doing the right thing here (as i and others said before, theres a bigger fish to fry), but the comparison to TW and GTA still blows for the beforementioned reason.

Imagine countries where women aren't allowed to drive, and have to sit in the back seat.
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:39 
I guess I'm not looking to argue about the difference between the visual novels and say GTA, where you can have sex in addition to killing police officers... I was really wondering what the actual parameters of having frontal nudity in a game's story are? I see a lot of games flagged as "Nudity". Are they actually nude?
最後修改者:jasontatemusic; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 12:43
Pan Paka Pan 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 1:04 
The whole problem derives from the anime art in the mix. For example, some Atelier games are 18+ (AO) in Australia. Those are cute slice of life games without anything that can even resemble 18+ stuff. There is no ecchi, sex, porn or anything. Many recent games are getting refused classification because they are anime art.
Germany, Australia and even UK are banning anime (ecchi/sexy) games. The games are not pornographic, and some of them are even 13+ Teen rated in USA or JP. I guess it depends on who reviews it.

Why am I using rating boards as example? Because Valve is actually doing the same thing now. They are in the process of reviewing anime games and they CAN possibly ban the games with anime art. It will probably depend on if the person in charge for reviewing is against anime art and see it as illegal (underage) stuff.
jasontatemusic 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 1:06 
引用自 Space Eagle 🦅
The whole problem derives from the anime art in the mix. For example, some Atelier games are 18+ (AO) in Australia. Those are cute slice of life games without anything that can even resemble 18+ stuff. There is no ecchi, sex, porn or anything. Many recent games are getting refused classification because they are anime art.
Germany, Australia and even UK are banning anime (ecchi/sexy) games. The games are not pornographic, and some of them are even 13+ Teen rated in USA or JP. I guess it depends on who reviews it.

Why am I using rating boards as example? Because Valve is actually doing the same thing now. They are in the process of reviewing anime games and they CAN possibly ban the games with anime art. It will probably depend on if the person in charge for reviewing is against anime art and see it as illegal (underage) stuff.

So would it just be banned in that region?
For example... can women even play video games in Saudia Arabia? I know they recently got the right to drive cars certain hours of the day. The country is extremely rich and have also just opened some movie theaters to women. Before they couldn't see movies. They still have iPhones and western merchandise.
最後修改者:jasontatemusic; 2018 年 5 月 28 日 下午 1:10
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