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Re: On The "Adult Games Censorship"

What I'd actually like to know is the grounds on which the payment processors were able to do this, regardless of the initial motivations from any given "pressure group". The Itch statement is very vague about what's actually going on and gives no actual answers.

Couldn't it be simply a case of minors being able to purchase adult content through a mean of payment bypassing age verification on the Steam/Itch side ? If that's the case it would make complete sense for the payment processors and the storefronts to close the loophole ASAP if they don't want to face fines similar to that of a supermarket chain selling booze without checking IDs - even if that means temporarily making the content unavailable to all.

If anything this could mean that publishers of NSFW games could then sue Steam and Itch for their losses of revenue in the meantime (assuming that said games were clearly labelled as adult in the first place).

pior

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Re: On The "Adult Games Censorship"

simply more distractions from the Epstein files. They're panicking now, apply more pressure

but yea it's not great. Itch.io seems to have also been hit, dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of games deleted
https://itch.io/t/5119460/adult-and-erotic-tags-games-gone
https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1m7qex3/itchio_seems_to_have_straight_up_wiped_all_adult/
Interesting times we live in. Payment processors shouldn't be doing this, lol

zetheros

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Re: Forest Dweller

kanga said:

Looks super! Could you show some work in progress shots?

Hi Kanga! Thank you.

I will do it a little bit late

Dorado

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[Finished Work] Winchester 1876

Hi everyone! Very happy to share my latest project, the Winchester 1876. It was a great challenge to recreate this piece of the old west. Hope you enjoy it.

More pictures and videos on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qJwnPn

AlpineCurd

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Re: [Finished Works] + [ Work In Progress ] Weapons

Thanks guys!

Hey everyone, here's another batch of work I did since my last work posted here.
Got the chance to do a spaceship for the Marmoset team.
Did a Tec-9 and an ssg + a p99 which are 2 full complete tutorials.
4k screens on my artstation. Hope you like them!

https://youtu.be/XoM8nn_W4G0

https://youtu.be/PJzL-WZsNWI?si=nh3wX1hQrUSlJJmI

LaurentiuN

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Re: Highschool Character (WIP)

This is really super work. Try putting an image of your current progress as the first image in the first post. Use a .jpg format so the pic will show up in the preview box. Great stuff, looking forward to seeing this develop.

kanga

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Re: On The "Adult Games Censorship"

it would have been interesting to see what happened if steam had told them to get stuffed and started their own bank..

(if this happens it was my idea and i want 0.5% equity)

poopipe

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On The "Adult Games Censorship"

I'm interested to hear people's thoughts on this. I'd heard something recently about Steam removing some games due to pressure from payment processors, and today, I saw this article that says itch.io has been forced to comply, as well. Supposedly, it was due to Collective Shout, "a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls". Basically, they're killing off adult content.

I'm...Not thrilled about this. Moral guardians always make me nervous. They're dangerous and controlling. And speaking of, it's kind of fucked that people should basically be at the mercy of the payment processors. It's their money. If I want to buy some nukige, why should some third party get to waggle their finger at me and say no?

It also puts me on edge because certain kinds of media, such as those intended for an LGBT audience, are often judged to be NSFW whether they have actual adult content or not due to bigotry, which makes them disproportionately likely to be caught up in such a purge.

I'm not really in a coherent enough headspace to make any points with clarity, but basically, it's fucked, and I'm interested to see what others think. There should be some implications for those who visit this forum, I'd think; if platforms are going to start effectively banning certain types of content, the jobs making them will dry up, too.

Thoughts?

Rima

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Re: Advice on portfolio

I'd maybe switch "Tactile Visions" to your actual name, unless you're starting a studio.

Probs recommend having all your best animations on one demo reel and all your best vfx and sending those. I don't know how I feel about each animation being on a different page.

Not an animator, but I'd suggest having some facial animations and lipsyncing. Your combat animations are dope, but I'd think you'd want to showcase face stuff.

Cool art just fyi

Ashervisalis

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Re: On The "Adult Games Censorship"

I have no objection to Steam banning games if Steam doesn't want the games on it's platform.

I do however have a pretty visceral objection to payment providers imposing their will on their customers businesses - this is gross and shit and makes all the right-wing conspiracy theorists sound a bit less like the ranting loons you take them for at first glance.

Something similar to this happened with onlyfans (maybe it was a different site) a while back iirc. I have to assume that resolved itself based on my twitter feed so we may be able to look there to see how this will pan out.

as far as the porn game producers go ...
Porn is not an industry that struggles despite being widely banned from mainstream platforms because people will happily go to extreme lengths to indulge their me-time needs and will spend an absolute fortune doing it.
A porn version of steam (i can think of several names for this already) would do absolutely fine

poopipe

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