tl;dr: It's not the swimsuit, it's the category the game is in and this being the main splash screen on the store.
Not even stellar blade has this amount of 'fanservice' on its main store image. (https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/3489700/) The issue is that showing lots of skin in the main image before the adult content filter check effectively bypasses the adult content filter system entirely by frontloading the otherwise milquetoast content.
Before wilding out on steam, realize that the devs are gaming the system, then being crybullies about getting slapped.
you're only allowed to have titillating/sexually active capsule arts, which are shown in the steam store as you scroll along, if you're an outright adult game, which this game isn't. this is so that someone who filters out porn games never sees any sort of sexual art when browsing the store. if they launched their non-porn game with this capsule art, the filter wouldn't catch it and people who don't want to see it, would.
It's a low light image of a mildly attractive woman with realistic proportions in a non-revealing outfit, part of which is obscured by the game's title. You can probably find plenty of game covers and promo material prior to 2010 that were far more risqué than this. Even more recently, there's the Genesis homebrew Life on Earth: Reimagined which has arguably a far more racy cover image than this, yet it's perfectly A-OK.
It's not like a "Disney mom" in a thong where the cellulite is the only thing you can see, usually in material marketed specifically towards KIDS.
Get the billion dollar corp's dick out of your mouth. You probably think lenna.jpg was some sort of horrific gooner crime against humanity, like that one gay future troon youtuber did. If Steam wants to follow the crowd in having low-T eunuchized slackjawed faggots in charge of moderation, then it needs to be destroyed along with every other left-aligned shithole, no matter how big it may presently be. No compromise, ever. Otherwise we get another GamerGate. And another. Until those faggots learn.
Even more recently, there's the Genesis homebrew Life on Earth: Reimagined which has arguably a far more racy cover image than this, yet it's perfectly A-OK.
After reading the explanations: if that game was on the Steam store in general categories, the splash art would definitely be different.
You can probably find plenty of game covers and promo material prior to 2010 that were far more risqué than this.
Cool. But we're not living 15 years in the past if you haven't noticed. And Valve was also affected by the Mastercard/VISA bullshit in case you missed that entire shitshow.
Even more recently, there's the Genesis homebrew Life on Earth: Reimagined which has arguably a far more racy cover image than this, yet it's perfectly A-OK.
It's perfectly A-OK because it isn't even on the store. Why would you use a mod for a game as an example?
Get the billion dollar corp's dick out of your mouth.
Get this random ass devs dick out your mouth who misrepresents what actually fucking happened to play the victim for PR purposes.
It's not about cover images. It's about the "capsule" images. The landscape oriented ones that show up in the store search UI (or StreamDB).
Once someone intentionally clicks through to a specific game, it's not an issue anymore.
Basically the difference of what you can sell in a physical shop vs. what you can set up as a window display in a physical shop. You have a lot of freedom in one context and considerably less in the other.
Not to say I think this one should be a problem for a capsule image, but Steam definitely allows far far lewder things on the individual game pages.
The fact you’re going this hard against any kind explanation of the issue, for a game no one is going to play, tells me more about you (and this site) than about Steam.
Thanks for the explanation. Steam is one of the most stable and reasonable platforms right now so it was pretty confusing reading that their employees doubled down twice.
Made up 'censorship' to try and garner interest from a community which is against such things. If they don't want to "bend the knee" and stand by their "principles and ethics" they could use itch.io or GOG (Or have it completely free of outside influence and host it themselves).
There's no way Steam/Valve/Whoever thinks this is inappropriate for a thumbnail prior to age verification. BloodRayne and Bayonetta blow this the fuck out the water and are are well known mainstream franchises with much more clout and supportive fans.
This is the polar opposite of Sweet Baby Inc but using the same methodology to try and game the system.
Looks like a repack of assets too - probably half our lot who claim to be top-end coders.
https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/1ARK0LXpVX/steam-refuses-to-publish-our-gam/c/4eXtiGeeIwa
tl;dr: It's not the swimsuit, it's the category the game is in and this being the main splash screen on the store.
Not even stellar blade has this amount of 'fanservice' on its main store image. (https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/3489700/) The issue is that showing lots of skin in the main image before the adult content filter check effectively bypasses the adult content filter system entirely by frontloading the otherwise milquetoast content.
Before wilding out on steam, realize that the devs are gaming the system, then being crybullies about getting slapped.
I had a feeling there was more to this and that the devs were likely trying something shady.
Still don't get it. Is the advertising misleading because there aren't women in swimsuits. in the game?
you're only allowed to have titillating/sexually active capsule arts, which are shown in the steam store as you scroll along, if you're an outright adult game, which this game isn't. this is so that someone who filters out porn games never sees any sort of sexual art when browsing the store. if they launched their non-porn game with this capsule art, the filter wouldn't catch it and people who don't want to see it, would.
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It's a low light image of a mildly attractive woman with realistic proportions in a non-revealing outfit, part of which is obscured by the game's title. You can probably find plenty of game covers and promo material prior to 2010 that were far more risqué than this. Even more recently, there's the Genesis homebrew Life on Earth: Reimagined which has arguably a far more racy cover image than this, yet it's perfectly A-OK.
It's not like a "Disney mom" in a thong where the cellulite is the only thing you can see, usually in material marketed specifically towards KIDS.
Get the billion dollar corp's dick out of your mouth. You probably think lenna.jpg was some sort of horrific gooner crime against humanity, like that one gay future troon youtuber did. If Steam wants to follow the crowd in having low-T eunuchized slackjawed faggots in charge of moderation, then it needs to be destroyed along with every other left-aligned shithole, no matter how big it may presently be. No compromise, ever. Otherwise we get another GamerGate. And another. Until those faggots learn.
After reading the explanations: if that game was on the Steam store in general categories, the splash art would definitely be different.
Cool. But we're not living 15 years in the past if you haven't noticed. And Valve was also affected by the Mastercard/VISA bullshit in case you missed that entire shitshow.
It's perfectly A-OK because it isn't even on the store. Why would you use a mod for a game as an example?
Get this random ass devs dick out your mouth who misrepresents what actually fucking happened to play the victim for PR purposes.
It's not about cover images. It's about the "capsule" images. The landscape oriented ones that show up in the store search UI (or StreamDB).
Once someone intentionally clicks through to a specific game, it's not an issue anymore.
Basically the difference of what you can sell in a physical shop vs. what you can set up as a window display in a physical shop. You have a lot of freedom in one context and considerably less in the other.
Not to say I think this one should be a problem for a capsule image, but Steam definitely allows far far lewder things on the individual game pages.
The fact you’re going this hard against any kind explanation of the issue, for a game no one is going to play, tells me more about you (and this site) than about Steam.
Thanks for the explanation. Steam is one of the most stable and reasonable platforms right now so it was pretty confusing reading that their employees doubled down twice.
I'm calling bullshit on the lot of it.
Made up 'censorship' to try and garner interest from a community which is against such things. If they don't want to "bend the knee" and stand by their "principles and ethics" they could use itch.io or GOG (Or have it completely free of outside influence and host it themselves).
There's no way Steam/Valve/Whoever thinks this is inappropriate for a thumbnail prior to age verification. BloodRayne and Bayonetta blow this the fuck out the water and are are well known mainstream franchises with much more clout and supportive fans.
This is the polar opposite of Sweet Baby Inc but using the same methodology to try and game the system.
Looks like a repack of assets too - probably half our lot who claim to be top-end coders.
Guarantee the faggots who complained about this support child drag shows and explicit gay literature in middle school libraries.
It's a one piece swimsuit....how is that even too mature when even an issue when even in the 1950s this was the trend?
I really can't get my head around it unless the guy banning it is a MASSIVE retard or is applying the rules maliciously for some reason?
Is this the point where start launching massive complaints about bullshit? How can we fight against this dumb shit?