Valve has allegedly refused to permit a new boomer shooter a place on Steam owing to a disagreement over a scene that the dev says is purposefully “disgusting.”
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Why do companies like Valve need to chaperone ppl into what they should see in a game?
The game has a warning at the start, on the page, etc...
You can opt out to skip the scene and still, Valve feels the need to restrict the view of the artist.
What's disgusting is the term "Boomer Shooter"🤮
But anyways, I dunno, films and especially books can do this all day and no one bats an eye, but games do this and it's suddenly banned. I do feel you don't necessarily need to show the act for it to be impactful, however who am I to tell the creators how to portray something. It is their marketplace tho so 🤷♂️
I think the developers here are doing the right thing by warning players of the scene in advance and giving them the option to skip it. Stuff like this can be very hard for actual victims to see. I also think it's good that they're, apparently, making sure that it is a disgusting and scary scene, rather than one that is titillating. The thing that bothers me, though, is the feeling I have that they're trying to have it both ways. So-called boomer shooters don't typically take themselves very seriously, and are mostly just outrageous and pulpy. It seems a bit questionable to put a serious, realistically disturbing scene of sa in a game like this. Either make a serious game, or don't and leave out / only imply the sa stuff. At the very least, I can't imagine it working tonally. It's just a weird thing to include in a game that is almost certainly fundamentally un-serious, like boomer shooters tend to be (and which a quick look at the game's Steam page pretty much confirms). I'd be interested to hear Valve's side of the argument, though.
f off valve. murdering thousands and thousands in other games is ok in your eyes. therefore valve is pro genocide with this dumb logic. its like the conservatives in the 90s getting outraged over all art.
Valve allows nearly everything so really curious what this was.