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Responsible Adult say no to Store Exclusive. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/gaming

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[–] raspberriesareyummy 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You forgot patreon. Steam censors the library in places (hello German government & fuck you hard with a rusty rebar). But even outside censorship, patreon game developers usually do not lock in their games into rootkit-protected anticheat/copy protection/whatever bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not censored but mandated by a government body so they literally have no other option other than doing that.
If the dev is too lazy to fill out a questionnaire for self-categorizing the age rating why is Valve responsible for that?

[–] frostysauce 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not censored but mandated by a government body

What exactly do you think censorship is?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The point is that you can't legally own it in your country, Steam unrelated.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 3 points 1 week ago

I was cursing at the German government, not steam
I am not talking about the age categorization, I am talking about having to implement a customer age verification which they won't do for the German market, and again, while this would be easy, I don't necessarily blame steam for it. But that they do censor is unquestioned, and therefore more options are welcome, as long as those stores do not require a launcher, installer or otherwise intrusive software.