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[Jesse Cox] The Rise of Adult Video Games on Steam (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fuck you mean "how did this happen?"

Steam didn't allow adult games then they did. So now there's adult games.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I watched the video. It's really trying to trace out the arc of adult video games in the US more-broadly than Steam. He does talk about some of the Steam stuff too, which is a little more than just "didn't allow than allow".

That being said, I feel like I would have enjoyed the video more with fewer joke visuals thrown up. Also, I feel like the coverage is uneven...like, it could have done with more research, I think.

It's US-centric, which is fine, but he does reference Japan vaguely. I think it might be interesting to see what was going on other places for context.

It's also fairly-focused on the commercial side of things (which I guess sort of makes sense, since Steam is primarily about distribution of commercial games, though there are also noncommercial games on Steam).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah, so they use the steam logo for clickbait then. Glad I didn't watch it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well, it's true that there are dramatically more adult titles on Steam than there were a few years back. And the video does mention that. It's just that it's really that the video is mostly talking about the history prior to that point. I think that it'd be more-accurately-described as "the history of adult video games in the US including the current increase on Steam".

[–] Woozythebear 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They talked about steam tho... you didn't even watch the video.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

I... Literally said that yes