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The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
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I'm assuming they don't mean a suggestive camera pan, but actually something problematic on screen, in which case, I totally support the ban. Devs were given the opportunity to change it, and they said no. Ban away imho. The fact that this is considered controversial is pretty disturbing to me.
It was a child doing pony play, riding a naked adult man-horse. The dev claimed it was not sexual.
This was removed later but it's the build you send for review that gets reviewed. Other stores got a later version, hence why it passed on those.
Dev was not given a chance to remove it as it turns out steam has a policy that anything that resembles CSAM gets denied permanently.
Considering there website proudly shows it is banned on Steam I'm sure this was done on purpose for the publicity.
Why did Epic ban it though? They didn't get the 'tainted' preview version and normally love to have games that aren't on Steam.
Anything's possible but I wouldn't assume it was planned unless something else came up. I think he's just riding the accidental publicity, which I don't really blame him for, though the dishonesty of his spin kinda pisses me off.
I'd like to hear epic's explanation on why the clean version was still too much.
It might not be what they planned but they're now using it as an opportunity for more publicity to get something out of it especially now there are some potential sales they won't be getting anymore.
I haven't heard about the details, what's your source on that?
As far as I recall, the developer said he didn't know the actual reason for the ban.
Some previous article which contained valve's response, and a description of the scene. I didn't find it immediately, but I'll check again.
https://lemmy.world/post/39297021
What’s CSAM?
Child Sexual Abuse Material. Legalese for child porn and adjacent things.
I also was wondering why, it's always been called CP and then recently they changed acronym 🤷
Calling it "porn" makes it sound more legitimate and less like the heinous abuse that it really is.
Like the other user said, porn implies some level of consent which children cannot give. Calling it csam ensures there's no confusion about it being abuse.
Just confusion about what the acronym stands for.
I mean, it's not like people were miraculously born with the knowledge of what CP meant. That had to be learned just like CSAM.
Pretty sure it's child sexual abuse material
The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive no response.
This is false.
https://www.eurogamer.net/its-extremely-frustrating-and-also-fcked-up-one-of-the-worlds-best-indie-studios-is-facing-shock-closure-following-confounding-steam-ban
They submitted to steam, who asked for a preliminary build of the game (one would assume due to concerns about the content). The build provided included a small child reading a naked man like a horse.
Steam denied the game based on the inclusion of CSAM, and advised the devs directly of this decision in what the devs call “an automated email”, as if steam is out there personally hand writing rejection letters for every failed game out there.
The devs claim to have changed the scene, but it seems that Steam has a zero-tolerance policy on games that feature CSAM. And, I mean, Fair.
Forming an opinion from your made up justification is a sign of poor judgement
It's a direct quote from the article you're commenting on, and that my opinion is based on.
But please, don't let me stop you from attacking my character instead of my argument
I was talking about your comment, not the quote. Weird that you assumed otherwise
“I'm assuming they don't mean a suggestive camera pan, but actually something problematic on screen, in which case, I totally support the ban. Devs were given the opportunity to change it, and they said no. Ban away imho. The fact that this is considered controversial is pretty disturbing to me.”
Devs were not given the opportunity to change it as it wasn’t there in the first place
Yes it was