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carotte, 5 godzin temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

i’ll note that, as the article mentions, even apple and google haven’t removed the game in russia (at least not yet)

are valve complicit, or just cowards?

Agent_Karyo, 5 godzin temu

Honestly, that's very surprising.

Alcyonaria, 2 godziny temu

Both, they've always capitulated to states for that juicy 1% profit margin

frustrated_phagocytosis, 5 godzin temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

Why do anything to appeal to fucking Russian regime bullshit? Tell them to fuck off! Cowards.

echodot, 4 godziny temu

Because then they’ll block steam in Russia.

I’m not defending Valve here they need to have more values, but realistically this game was never going to be available for sale in Russia. No matter what they did.

Agent_Karyo, 3 godziny temu

What’s wrong with Steam getting blocked in Russia? It’s not like Valve allows direct purchases by russian users.

Russian users losing access to their libraries without VPN is their own problem. They are responsible for their government, no one else.

Goodlucksil, 2 godziny temu

Um, what? Most Russians that browse Steam do not endorse the regime (can’t check, but probably so given what happens in the West)

GeneralEmergency, 2 godziny temu

Because Gaben is a libertarian fuckwit.

Fuck his greedy ass. And fuck G*mers defending his monopoly.

SkavarSharraddas, 4 godziny temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

Guess Russia has the right climate for snowflakes lol.

e8d79, 3 godziny temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

Why are they doing business in Russia?

Truscape, 2 godziny temu

They started their business in there a while ago (I believe they were the first online distributor who managed to succeed in the Russian market, despite media fears of mass piracy), and I would imagine that revoking all of the users’ Steam Libraries wouldn’t be a popular move, or terminating all their accounts.

I’m not sure why they continued purchases after 2022 though. Maybe their Eastern Europe payment processor doesn’t ask too many questions?

Mwa, 3 godziny temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

“In Russia”

Well ig government pressure

Whostosay, 2 godziny temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

Nontraditional sexualities huh? Pretty sure being gay happened way before Russia or any previous nation on that land

yucandu, godzinę temu do games w Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities”

Email Gabe, here:

gaben@valvesoftware.com

I did back in 2015 when I was an edgy idiot, upset about their removal of the game Hatred because it is literally a spree shooting simulator. And I was all like “free speech”. And Gabe actually replied! And put the game back up too.

So email him. He might reply.