How many inconsistencies have we seen on @steam?
It took social pressure, pointing out hypocrisy, and asking for new staff to look over it to win this.
But never forget what they said. Never forget what works there.
All it takes is 1 to stand up first. Others can win too.
But we need people to trust the public will show up for you, because we will. No one likes censorship and even worse is uneven enforcement.
I hope they have a fruitful launch and wish them all the success.
But this wont be the last time this happens, and so we continue on.
Today is not the end of something, it's the start.
Because on this day, we can say we won! Steam have decided to change their decision and not censor our page!
We stood our ground and didn't bend the knee, going forward, we will keep fighting censorship.
If we can win, so can you! We are a small team hardly anyone knew of, but we stood for what we believed in and won against the biggest platform!
But we didn't do this alone, it's because of all of you! People from around the world, You told us to keep going and you stood with us. We are so grateful for you all, and we won't stop now. We have a growing community so thank you for the light in the dark.
We don't have to be scared of censorship anymore, without devs making games they have no income, without you the players they have no power.
Now, let us show you what we can do without the restrictions, this drama and even the memes (that was a little fun), but with our creations. We have a long way to go but stick with us, give us this chance and we will give it our all. 🤟
This isn't over. It's the start.
#StanduptoCensorship
We are going to be posting more about this below, we have a lot of questions we are working through with them but don't want to post until we have all the answers, just so it's accurate. Also it still says reviewing on our end but we have been assured they will sort that, so in good faith we have made this post.
🚨Announcment🚨
This image is the reason our steam page has not been approved. This image is now classed as too mature according to Steam, so now we can not have the page ready in time for the event and would need to censor our marketing, screenshots, etc. This is what censorship is coming to in the games industry, and we have to ask now, is it worth it for them to move the goal post down the line?
We could have it all remade and hope they accept it, but where will it stop? We would need to redo the networking too if we move platform, but do you really want a censored game? We don't.
Anyone know of any platforms they recommend or publishers that can handle mature content let us know!
We are sorry about this, we worked hard to get something ready that we can't even share, but we do have one thing that is playable that we will announce for Halloween!
#horrorgame #Halloween #indiegame
“Restrictions for healthy expressions”. Pixiv says, on behalf of these countries.
These Government and NGOs should really just bluntly and honestly call these what they are, “Censorship Policies”.