We have had to rethink our strategy by adding our games to other stores and prevent an issue like this from affecting us in the future. Taosym admitted that a potential crackdown on sexual content by Valve could have disastrous consequences, as Steam sales account for 80 percent of Lupiesoft's business. we're going to have to reconsider what degree of content has to be cut in order to retail on Steam.
We're not out of the woods yet, but I think this issue did create greater visibility for Lupiesoft, and we saw a giant increase in players playing our game, and new fans following our games now." As Taosym explains, "We made a protest discount in order to get as many people playing our game as possible to see how really tame it all was in the end compared to games on their service that are way more explicit. Taosym also expressed confidence in the outcome of Valve's upcoming re-review of Mutiny!!, suggesting that taking the game down would result in "an even bigger backlash".
Kindred Spirits (Liar-soft/MangaGamer, 2016) Anything less would mean a true backtrack on previous standards and policies." According to the disregard notice the product is still under review and may potentially still face removal," Pickett says."Considering we had Kindred Spirits thoroughly reviewed by our Valve representative prior to even trying to get the title hosted on Steam, we expect it to pass and remain on the storefront without edits or censorship. "We have yet to receive any further notice or information from Valve since the initial one we reported on in our press release and a follow-up email telling us to disregard it after the news was first covered in the press. it does suck that the company with the biggest market share in game sales is this reckless with their business decisions. This was echoed by the director of PR for MangaGamer, John Pickett, who confirmed that they have received no further information about why their game, Kindred Spirits, was reported for violating community guidelines. Recently, this has also begun to change, with Steam representatives reaching out to the developers of Galaxy Girls and Sunrider Academy to suggest that they remove any information about content restoration patches from their community pages.Īccording to Taosym from Lupiesoft-responsible for Mutiny!!, a visual novel about a pirate captain who romances her nonhuman crew-there was no explanation given as to why Valve threatened them with removal.
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Previously, developers were allowed to include information on their community discussion page explaining how to restore the censored nudity using a patch. Most eroge games on Steam are already heavily censored to fall in line with Valve's community standards. Even so, the move sparked outrage in the visual novel community. Less than a day later Valve walked back the notices, issuing an apology to the developers involved for causing confusion, and telling them to disregard the initial emails. But their days on the platform may be numbered.In May, several developers and publishers-including Lupiesoft, HunieDev, and MangaGamer-said that Valve informed them their games would be removed from Steam unless sexual content was censored. These games focus on romancing flirty anime characters, and sometimes contain graphic sexual content as a key part of narrative progression. Over the last several years there's been a growing influx of 'eroge' on Steam-sexually explicit games, many of them visual novels, either Japanese or inspired by Japanese works.
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