September 7th Update:
Steam Finally Added Store Content Preferences!
That's right, after months of battles with various game developers threatening to remove their games due to containing sexual content Steam has finally added a new filter system... We covered this news and how to enable the filter options HERE!
June 6th Update:
Looks like Valve is doing a complete 180 and has walked all the way back stating that Steam should not be the ones to decide which game developer can and cannot post their game. The same goes for Steam customers, Steam doesn't want to tell customers what they can play and not play.
Good job Valve for taking a stance that makes sense for your business model, appeases your "real" customers, and ignores the outspoken minority who started this whole mess!
Check out the full blog post below:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082
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(Update from PCmag.com)
Original article:
Reacting from a 2 year campaign from endsexualexploration.org to have Steam remove games featuring sexual exploitative content, Value has responded by sending 2 week notices to the game developers to remove such content or face removal from the Steam store page.
https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/top-videogame-company-steam-removing-sexually-graphic-content/
The following is a list of developers (and their games, if known) that have allegedly received an e-mail from Valve stating that they must remove pornographic content from their games
(List provided by techraptor.net)
These game developers have reached out to their customers and fans via Twitter showing explaining their 2 week notice of removal from Steam:
From this sudden push by Steam to filter out games featuring specifically Anime-esk adult content, Nutaku has taken to Twitter to promote their website as a potential new home for games who may be removed from Steam if they cannot comply with Valve's non specific terms.
You should already know my thoughts on this. Censorship is stupid, and if the US won’t censor a game like WS2 like the Germans did, but they want to censor sexual content in an anime game, my response would be as one of those publishers that I’ll use a different and equally popular client system then since the one that I was going to use is going to fall to another piece of society when society in general has turned to trash whether it be the people for the censorship or society in general. in the mean time I’m planning an infiltrate and overthrow operation on the people responsible because I shouldn’t have to pay to be able to play the game as it was intended to be played on top of that not only will I infiltrate and overthrow we should start our own organization End Censorship Now