wtf is the deal with all the porn games?

[Nalarion]

its saturating the entire game search page, and this ♥♥♥♥ is starting to get seriously friggen ridiculous. Aside from the obvious moral concerns, doesn't this ♥♥♥♥ hurt steam itself? Do you guys really wanna be known as that place that weebs go to waste money to jack off too? There didn't seem to be any place to report a complaint like this so im doing it here. But I swear I spend 90% of my time at least just going through and ignoring games and scrolling past all the stupid DLC and hentai bullcrap.

And for the idiots dumb enough to buy those games, please stop it. Go watch actual porn ffs, its better quality and its free.

[Nalarion]

Escrito originalmente por Riedy:

1319 out of 32603 games on Steam include sexual content, this also includes games like The Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed Origins (and also Life is Strange 2 which has no nudity?).

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=12095&category1=998

If you exclude AAA games, you're looking at less than 3% games that include any sexual content.
This really shouldn't make a difference in your shopping experience unless you browse and shop lewd games yourself. From now on, remove lewd games from your account and "ignore" those games, the algorithm will eventually change to your new preferences and you'll see those less.

Thanks for the assumption and being dismissive of my point, but I don't have any "lewd games" unless you count Neir as one.

Also, again, this is something that clearly lots of people are complaining about not just me. So many other people are also being flooded with these types of low quality games and its not just up to the algorythms and how my choices influence it.

[Nalarion]

Escrito originalmente por whatamidoing:

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

Just because your assuming moral outrage, doesn't mean it is. Its as morally questionable as it is ethical. Just as gambling mechanics and loot boxes are. You guys SHOULD care too, stuff like this diminishes the quality of games.

Having a lot of low-quality porn games doesn't stop anyone from making anything different, hell, it even helps it stand out in conversation more.

A low quality product of any kid that is bought by consumers will increase the likelyhood that more low quality products enter the market. Look at fast food and cheap stores like walmart. They systematically cut out the competition and lowered to quality of products. I could go on with exsamples.

[Nalarion]

Escrito originalmente por The Living Tribunal:

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

well maybe if people keep complaining about the same damn thing, theres something to it, eh!?

Escrito originalmente por AmsterdamHeavy:

That you created by enabling adult content.

Had you used the search feature, you would have saw this answer that was previously provided. And if people are complaining about 1 particular issue, the only thing there is for it is there are people in agreement. I've seen many vac ban users complain of how the vac system should only ban for x number of hours. Just because a bunch of vac banned people complained about it means that feature must be implemented? Again, probably wise to use the search feature...

Whats the Vac system? Im not quite sure what your saying

[whatamidoing]

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

Escrito originalmente por whatamidoing:

Having a lot of low-quality porn games doesn't stop anyone from making anything different, hell, it even helps it stand out in conversation more.

A low quality product of any kid that is bought by consumers will increase the likelyhood that more low quality products enter the market. Look at fast food and cheap stores like walmart. They systematically cut out the competition and lowered to quality of products. I could go on with exsamples.

I generally only play games made by small teams or individuals who set out to make a fun game, not simply pander to the market. Those games are the best, imo.

[Nalarion]

generally they are now days.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

its saturating the entire game search page, and this♥♥♥♥♥♥is starting to get seriously friggen ridiculous. Aside from the obvious moral concerns, doesn't this♥♥♥♥♥♥hurt steam itself? Do you guys really wanna be known as that place that weebs go to waste money to jack off too? There didn't seem to be any place to report a complaint like this so im doing it here. But I swear I spend 90% of my time at least just going through and ignoring games and scrolling past all the stupid DLC and hentai bullcrap.

And for the idiots dumb enough to buy those games, please stop it. Go watch actual porn ffs, its better quality and its free.

> saturating the entire game search page

I opened up a fresh, no-login window page for https://store.steampowered.com/search/?

Here's the first page of games:

MORDHAU
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
The Elder Scrolls Online
Risk of Rain 2
Warframe
Rocket League
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Mortal Kombat 11
Grand Theft Auto V
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice
Black Desert Online
Total War: WARHAMMER II
A Hat in Time
Rust
Borderlands 2
Forager
KurtzPel
RAGE 2
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Where/how are you finding your porn?

Are you at the point where you've done your Discovery Queue so much that Steam literally has no more noteworthy games to show you and it's stuck showing you the niche of the niche because that's all it has left?

(In that case that's the Discovery Queue and not the search anyway.)

[Nalarion]

Escrito originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

its saturating the entire game search page, and this♥♥♥♥♥♥is starting to get seriously friggen ridiculous. Aside from the obvious moral concerns, doesn't this♥♥♥♥♥♥hurt steam itself? Do you guys really wanna be known as that place that weebs go to waste money to jack off too? There didn't seem to be any place to report a complaint like this so im doing it here. But I swear I spend 90% of my time at least just going through and ignoring games and scrolling past all the stupid DLC and hentai bullcrap.

And for the idiots dumb enough to buy those games, please stop it. Go watch actual porn ffs, its better quality and its free.

> saturating the entire game search page

I opened up a fresh, no-login window page for https://store.steampowered.com/search/?

Here's the first page of games:

MORDHAU
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
The Elder Scrolls Online
Risk of Rain 2
Warframe
Rocket League
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Mortal Kombat 11
Grand Theft Auto V
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice
Black Desert Online
Total War: WARHAMMER II
A Hat in Time
Rust
Borderlands 2
Forager
KurtzPel
RAGE 2
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Where/how are you finding your porn?

Are you at the point where you've done your Discovery Queue so much that Steam literally has no more noteworthy games to show you and it's stuck showing you the niche of the niche because that's all it has left?

(In that case that's the Discovery Queue and not the search anyway.)

Stuffs on the front page of special deals every day. Just because you arn't experiencing it doesn't mean others arnt.

[Nalarion]

do devs read these things or am I just rhetorically shouting into the community void?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

Stuffs on the front page of special deals every day. Just because you arn't experiencing it doesn't mean others arnt.

If you're talking about a specials search, then that was because there was a Golden Week sale, which had a bunch of games with anime art (and nowhere near all of them are porn games anyway). (Golden Week is a series of Japanese holidays.)

Check it now.

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?specials=1

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

do devs read these things or am I just rhetorically shouting into the community void?

They do, but they don't normally reply much at all, and besides I'm not sure what you'd want them to do they'd do in response to this request of yours. Complaining that Steam is a place where "weebs go to jack off" is sorta like complaining that poor people buy food at a grocery store.

[Nalarion]

Escrito originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Escrito originalmente por Nalarion:

do devs read these things or am I just rhetorically shouting into the community void?

They do, but they don't normally reply much at all, and besides I'm not sure what you'd want them to do they'd do in response to this request of yours. Complaining that Steam is a place where "weebs go to jack off" is sorta like complaining that poor people buy food at a grocery store.

Thats not at all the same, and as long as they read it they don't have to respond to me. I don't have any problems with people or what games they ultimately play, unless those things start to have some sorta negative impact.

I guess it would be like me complaining about ppl that shop at WalMart, so I guess its kinda the same.

[B✪✪tsy]

Why is pr0n a problem and not brute violence? What Steam and other platforms really need is age verification and respecting the PEGI rating.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por B00tsy:

Why is pr0n a problem and not brute violence? What Steam and other platforms really need is age verification and respecting the PEGI rating.

How do you age verify over the internet?

Short answer is that you don't, because someone who's underage can still figure out how to lie, and you have even fewer tools over the internet than in meatspace to verify their age independently of what they say.

[B✪✪tsy]

Escrito originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Escrito originalmente por B00tsy:

Why is pr0n a problem and not brute violence? What Steam and other platforms really need is age verification and respecting the PEGI rating.

How do you age verify over the internet?

Short answer is that you don't, because someone who's underage can still figure out how to lie, and you have even fewer tools over the internet than in meatspace to verify their age independently of what they say.

Verified payment info, extra layer of account registration, there are ways.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Escrito originalmente por B00tsy:

Escrito originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

How do you age verify over the internet?

Short answer is that you don't, because someone who's underage can still figure out how to lie, and you have even fewer tools over the internet than in meatspace to verify their age independently of what they say.

Verified payment info, extra layer of account registration, there are ways.

> verified payment info
Parent's credit card, parent's account name, etc.

> extra layer of account registration
Sure, Valve could conduct an extensive background check on every applicant, interview them, looking for discrepancies in their life stories, and so on.

Unless you figure out a way to have artificial intelligence do this for you, don't expect Steam to start doing it. It's both expensive and time-consuming, and there's little to gain from it.