It’s a new era for Steam — or so Valve says. So long as it isn’t “illegal, or straight-up trolling”, Valve will allow any game on the service.
It’s implemented new filtering tools to drive the point home and also ensure that there aren’t heaping piles of porn lying around everywhere. However, in the past few weeks, Valve has actually removed more games than usual from Steam.
It’s never been unusual for Valve to remove games from Steam. If you use the unofficial Steam Tools utility to look at where the banhammer has fallen over the past year, you’ll notice a series of removal sprees.
The most recent is notable due to its sheer volume. While previous months have seen Valve give the boot to anywhere between 20 and 70 games and/or DLC packs, it’s cast a whopping 179 into its patented abyss in the past few weeks. Why? Well, have a look at the titles of some of the games that were recently banned:
- Make Border Great Again!
- Big Dick
- 69
- MILF
- Hentai
- Hentai: Exposed
- Hentai Sisters
- PUTIN, TRUMP, and XIN JINPING
- PUTIN, BOOBS, and TRUMP
- 31 different games with some variation on the title Achievement Hunter
- LOGAN vs KSI
You get the idea. If you were wondering what Valve meant by “straight-up trolling”, this is likely the answer.
So basically, Valve seems to have cleaned up a lot of obviously troll-y crud, as well as achievement spam and some sex games that presumably didn’t follow its new rules (or that didn’t make the cut for some other reason; that whole situation is still kind of unclear).
You’ll note also that entire series got the boot in some cases, which is in line with Valve’s recent explanation of how it’s been investigating potential trolls: “A trend we’re seeing is that we often ban these people from Steam altogether instead of cherry-picking through their individual game submissions,” the company said in a blog post last month.
Criteria for being declared a troll, Valve added at the time, include “trying to rile people up” with barely-functional games, trying to scam people out of Steam inventory items, attempting to make money off “schemes that revolve around how we let developers use Steam keys”, and of course, the classic: “trying to incite and sow discord”.
Unless humanity collectively decides to shape up tomorrow and overthrow the systems that manipulate us and drive us to manipulate each other, this is probably not the last Steam ban wave we’ll see.
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2 responses to “Valve Removes 179 Steam Games Including Big Dick and MILF”
I’m not particularly philosophical but isn’t this the same as telling us to embrace anarchy and chaos? Even following the societal notion of what is good and acceptable is a system that manipulates and drives us to manipulate each other as we feel obligated to behave to avoid negative attention from others. Only by each following our own base instincts and desires could we truly be free of any system designed to manipulate us.
Even that is not true freedom from systems of manipulation though, one could consider our more baser instincts a manipulating system of sorts designed to ensure our prolonged survival. Basically we’d have to lose all desire and embrace apathy entirely to be free of the Steam banhammer.
Nah, I see it as endorsing the fight against anarchy and chaos – but very realistically pointing out that it’s not winnable, but is instead eternal.
Here’s another piece of shit game I saw on Steam just now, which I promptly reported and asked to be taken down immediately. The game is called “Master Of The Harem Guild” and oh boy are you not gonna believe the description of this one.
“- Large portions of the game include nudity, profane language, and graphic descriptions of sexual activities.
– The game contains sexual intercourse involving a virgin female thus some blood is visible in these scenes.
– The male protagonist occasionally uses ejaculate as a means of attack when facing off against certain enemies.
– There is a heavy focus of moral corruption and degradation of the female characters.
– All lead female characters will unavoidably become pregnant by the end of the game, and will have intercourse while pregnant.
– Due to ‘magical’ capabilities of the protagonist some instances of sex contain elements of dubious to non-consent.
– Some sexual encounters feature what could be considered ‘extreme elements’ such as; having public sex, a character being urinated on, group sex, body writing, creative use of tools for sexual gratification, seducing another character’s romantic partner, an intoxicated female character propositioning a male character for sex, using magic/drugs to put a character to sleep, sex with a sleeping character.”
“Damien, a “Monster Tamer” living in a fantasy world is scorned by the beautiful members of a prestigious guild. He embarks on a quest for revenge by heading into the Forest of Evil to become stronger and to prove to those who doubted him that he has the makings of a great hero! Instead of acquiring strength and skills in the forest Damien instead encounters a demon who grants him an ‘unexpected’ power that will help him stick it to those beautiful ladies from the guild who made fun of him.
With his new found powers in tow Damien sets out to get his revenge on the four people who laughed him out of the guild’s recruitment event. Alicia is the Priestess, a gentle healer who might be too innocent for her own good. Tina, a deadly sniper who earned herself the nickname of “Demon Bullet Princess”, who is a spunky gal who wears her heart on her sleeve. Sara, a powerful witch, her cold attitude earned her the nickname “Ice Queen”. Sonia the Paladin rounds out the group, her impenetrable defense is her greatest pride as she claims to have put aside her womanhood to pursue becoming a great hero.
Join Damien as he plots and schemes to exact his ultimate revenge on the ‘Knights of the Round’ and where his lewd machinations cause the gears in a much bigger plan to fall into place and put the world in more peril that one could imagine!”