Thread 712761639

>pay 100 dollars to get your game hostage

What the fuck is wrong with Valve???

But that garbage shouldn't be on steam, same for the other nekopara shit and similar games. They're trashy shovelware.

Why don't they contact steam see if something happened?

>>712762226
>reach out to Valve for response
>no response yet
>hurr why didn't they reach out to Valve?
spamming their inbox isn't going to change anything

>>712762336
Oh it did with me guess it works diff now.

>>712762440
>Oh it did with me guess it works diff now.
dev?

>>712761639 (OP)
But you can download it from nya, i dont get whta its the problem

>>712761639 (OP)

i dont give a fuck and complaining on /v/ wont solve anything

>>712761639 (OP)
What if they went to valve headquarters and scheduled a irl review of the game?

>>712761639 (OP)
Mary got her hands on it. It's over.

>Next game is a gacha
How do we feel about this?

>>712761639 (OP)
That's horrible.

>>712763917
I want Sayori to get Inupara out the door.
After that I don't care what she does with her IPs anymore. Sounds like she will retire. That's probably the best course of action.

>>712763917
only acceptable if it has h-scenes

>>712761639 (OP)
Why not just contact Gabe directly at this point? He's helped devs out before.

>>712764003
Fucker looks like he just took a shit in someone's shoe

>>712761639 (OP)
If I wanted to get into this series where do I start? Or can I just jump into the latest game ?

>>712761639 (OP)
>my pedobait ""game"" should be given priority because... it just should okay!?!?
not how businesses work kiddo

>>712764309
>>712764309
Go by release date
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/676/NEKOPARA/

>>712764309
start with 1 if you care at all about plot, release order is ideal

>>712764421
Why is Valve scared to reject it then.

>>712761639 (OP)
>this shit doesn't go through
>magical girl konoha does
steam is a fucking joke, but at least they dab on visa/mastercard

>>712761639 (OP)
They are Washingtonians, which means they may as well be Californians. The writing was already on the wall.

Here’s my question - how long is Steam supposed to take to review and approve a game? The nekopara dev didn’t make games for a few years, so now there’s more games coming out meaning more time required for approval. I worked in government and saw bidding and construction projects, and I know that’s a very slow industry (10 to 20 years or more for these projects to get finished, maybe 5 years for approval itself) but the dev seems pretty greedy thinking Steam only needs 30 days to approve their game. Maybe she should’ve submitted her game like 6 months in advance?

>>712765604
>how long is Steam supposed to take to review and approve a game?
Steam says, 3 to 5 days, 7 at most, clearly it's not what's happening here
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/review_process

>>712764421
i know right? it obviously should give priority to masterpieces of gaming like this.
They're so good the don't even have to go through the review process

>>712761816
>They're trashy shovelware.
That's most games on Steam.

>>712764421
>Le pedobait xDDDD
Kill yourself shartynigger

>>712762336
>spamming their inbox isn't going to change anything
"the squeaky wheel..." is a saying for a reason, anon.

>>712770252
doing that too frequently doesn't do well in a professional context. followups are one thing but being an annoying faggot is just going to make them put you on the backburner out of spite.

>>712770735
obviously you don't want to be obnoxious and send them email after email in a short time span, but sending follow up emails routinely is a real and necessary thing; whether it's just to cover your ass or to make sure it actually gets done.

>>712761639 (OP)
in all seriousness why are WEG, RPG maker games, and AI generated renpy games about rape and incest allowed on steam but this relatively tame VN is not

>>712771290
It's a lottery. An approver at Valve has cute derangement syndrome.

>>712771290
>"do the girls look young?"
^
this is literally their criteria

>>712772964
Yes because when it gets to a court the judge has to decide "do the girls look young"

>>712766420
>You play as a guy from japan going to the US
>Not the other way around
ABSOLUTE CINEMA

>>712773148
ill take things that never happened for 500 Alex
>b-but some country has some retard law
ok ban it in that country like Germany cucks

>>712765604
>she
This made me look it up but I still doubt it

>>712774171
Sayori-sensei is a married woman. Hell, there's lots of women in the eroge scene.

>>712774108
they haven't gotten to court for distributing child porn yet because they stop it from getting to that point in the first place. Are you really bitching and whinning because some h game that you can buy or pirate isn't avaiable on steam?

>>712772964
It would be convenient if that were a simple metric but when they ban games with girls that have DD cups and are never shown in a school setting, you have to question exactly what their criteria is for barring a game.
One or more of the people doing reviews have a seething hatred of anime girls, as far as they're concerned anything that looks younger than them may as well be a child even if it's explicitly obvious that they're of adult age. You're at the mercy of whoever is in line to review your game specifically.

>>712774384
>they haven't gotten to court for distributing child porn yet because they stop it from getting to that point in the first place.
lmao ok im done talking to you newfag.

>>712774384
WalMart sold this (that Steam banned) for a fucking decade and nothing happened. Steam is full of shit. If anything, they need to go to court for denying these games and fucking over Japanese developers for no good reason.

>>712775042
It should be very simple: if a game receives a rating from the ESRB, it bypasses the check that valve does because someone has already given the game a what for.

>>712761639 (OP)
Valve realized that their platform has too many trannies and they didn't want a game like this to increase their numbers.

>>712775042
>If anything, they need to go to court for denying these games and fucking over Japanese developers for no good reason.
It's for the reason listed above and the court would deny it as it's not illegal. Are you really that fucking stupid?

>>712774439
The criteria is exactly what he said,
>”do the girls look young?"
Big tits (or any other examples) don’t override that. Children with adult features stapled on are still children in the eyes of anyone who isn’t a pedophile.
This shit isn’t complex at all:
DON’T MAKE ANY PART OF THEM LOOK LIKE A CHILD AND YOU DON’T GET IN TROUBLE. Reviewers aren’t completely retarded and the criteria is exceptionally broad specifically to stop developers trying to wink and slip around very straightforward rules.

>>712775572
>It's for the reason listed above
Valve is denying games that have been sold in GENERAL STORES in the US for fucking decades. They almost exclusively do this with Japanese games, so it is an attack on Japanese cultural expression. They have an effective monopoly over PC distribution thanks to the network effect, so any game that can't pass their approval process gets kneecapped. Either trustbust them or bind them to more stringent rules of neutrality, such as what >>712775297
suggested.

>>712775952
>erm she doesnt have a receding hairline and deep nasolabial folds. must be a child!
grats on being psyoped by foids

>>712764003
>>712764289
From that expression, I'm not confident he made it as far as getting his pants down before taking that shit.

>>712775952
This basically means you can't make anything but hags with moles, wrinkles and planet-sized tits because anything else could possibly be construed as too "youthful". Australia has something similar and everyone knows they're retarded. It is constraining the range of acceptable expression for no good reason. Do you really think Nekopara is going to make someone rape a real kid? The sex scenes were almost certainly already removed from the Steam build anyway, meaning Valve banned it because the cute and funny character merely existed. And yet they won't touch Blue Archive because it's backed by a major Korean megacorp. So Valve is literally just bullying small Japanese developers that are far less likely to trip radars than something like Blue Archive is.

>>712776563
>Blue Archive out of nowhere
Paranoia

>>712775952
"look young"
It's a work of fiction; if the author says the character is 19, who are you to contest them on their own work? At that point, you're not banning on any legal basis, you're literally banning art styles and body types.
>but it's a grey area
No such thing, it's either illegal or it isn't, and we've had two decades of Japanese media being sold in the US to say it isn't no matter what Valve says.

>>712776710
NTA but it's a pretty valid comparison, considering the censors at valve repeatedly hype on "schools" and "young teens", which is pretty much the entire cast of BA.
If that game goes completely uncensored on steam - despite them already specifically marking it as "nudity and/or sexual content" - you'll know prior anon spoke truth.

>>712775952
you are advocating for the following asinine metrics
>height of consent
>wrinkles of consent
>vocal range of consent
>head size of consent
>hobbies and interests of consent
I have plenty of reason to believe that (you) are the one that's underage here. you deserve to be held back another year

>>712775952
>in the eyes of anyone who isn’t a pedophile
Weird how those people keep getting exposed for raping kids or supporting kids being violently raped.

>>712761639 (OP)
Valve:
IS THIS CUTE GIRLS????
NOOOOO, WE NEED TO BAN THIS IMMEDIATELY.
CUTE GIRLS MAKE ME ANGARY

>>712776158
Valve is literally racist.

>>712775952
>big titties doesn't mean not underage
>you need to make her fucking uggo
>otherwise she's 12 or something
Weird that there are laws, and if someone actually uploaded actual **illegal** content, Valve would have to report them to the police.

Do they do that? Or is Valve hiding **illegal** content? Or are they full of shit and mental illness?

>>712775952
>Valve is totally protecting le children
>Valve is grooming them into their gambling scam
???
Valve is basically a child molester.

>>712763917
who the fuck is that bottom left?
i hate the anime IP gacha model where the cast is obviously limited so they start making up some random OG trash nobody cares about
just remake different skin versions for the same cast

>>712779760
Check the OP image

>>712779760
>i hate the anime IP gacha model where the cast is obviously limited so they start making up some random OG trash nobody cares about
>just remake different skin versions for the same cast
what the hell are you talking about? that's literally a character from Nekopara After

>>712761639 (OP)
They should go try and get a few gaming news sites to cover them being ignored by Valve. It'd might at least force their hand to make a decision.

>>712781280
That probably won't end well

>>712776929
>draw a 5 year old child
>"It's okay guys she's actually 19"

This is probably my single most hated cope I hear from pedophiles

>>712766573
that's most games*
this applies to every platform.

why do americans ruin and destroy everything ?

>>712761639 (OP)
There is a korean inside valve with influence to approve and reject games
Nekopara happens to be a japanese game and you know how much japan make koreans seethe

>>712775952
Then valve should give developers clear standards / metrics as to what counts as an adult / child, rather than leaving things up to the whims of individual reviewers.
Even in real life, many 20 year olds could pass as 17, so there is a grey area. Especially when it comes to cartoon characters. A reviewer could basically call any anime girl, even if they are explicitly adults in the story, 17, if they have a pre existing bias against anime. Even characters that have less neotenous features. Like pic related
So clear standards are necessary.

>DON’T MAKE ANY PART OF THEM LOOK LIKE A CHILD
Funnily enough, anime girls don't actually resemble real kids, they just give the illusion of neoteny to normalfags. No actual kid has eyes that big, or the combination of features that (adult) anime girls have.

>>712779760
fraise debuted in nekopara 4 back in 2020 you fake neko fan

>>712761639 (OP)
Valve needs to higher more reviewers. They have a stupid small workforce despite how massive steam is. They'll put damn near anything, even the most degenerate dlsite games on steam if the patch is good enough so just work with the devs to make it acceptable for steam and move on.

>>712781891
>>712776710

>>712782010
>higher
*hire
i am retar

>>712781749
Because America has a ton of legitimate issues with racism, sexism, and oppression.
However the system is amazing at brainwashing and reducing everyone to simply a consumer. That means when you and everyone's just a consumer the only change you can affect is on what people buy and not on anything actually tangible in people's lives.
Because banning cute sexy anime girl games hasn't actually made things better, if anything things have gotten hellishly worse. But challenging the system is not something anyone can actually even comprehend, so they think affecting change is no more anime tits and that's progress are always chasing the purple dragon because it'll never be enough because it doesn't actually change or fix anything.

>>712761639 (OP)
don't the steam versions have all the porn removed anyway? what the fuck is the problem

>>712782295
The arbitrary acceptance process and being left in limbo.

>>712781552
She clearly doesn't look 5 though.
She looks like a teenager, and the game says shes 19. Which fits.
Also, even in real life there is a grey zone with age.
There are many 21 year old girls / boys who could pass as 17. So if you ignore what the writer actually says, any young character can be feasibly called underage, even when they are not supposed to be.
If the character can reasonably pass as the age stated, thats what people should go with, rather than making up head canon that she's actually younger.
The only reason normalfags think the character is a kid is due to the big anime eyes, which don't exist in real life.

>>712782354
Sorry, I tried to read your post but all I could really get out of it is "I am a pedophile and will jump through an unlimited number of hoops to justify my fucked up desires"

>>712782491
>no argument
Its a fact that you could call any young cartoon character in their twenties a teenager if you just make up your own head canon
see makima as an example: >>712781945
You could easily say she's 17.

>>712777167
see >>712781891
Is not about porn, or about young characters or anything, is about crippling japanese games as much as possible which is why this always happen with japanease games and never taiwanese or korean or hongkong or those vietcongs

TL;DR korea

>>712782491
Also, the reason why cartoons are like this is because they lack nuance in terms of facial design, its more simplified.
You don't have all the details of real life.

>>712775952
>any part of them look like a child

Define "look like a child"

>>712761639 (OP)
I am out of the loop. What's the problem with this game?

>>712781280
that would just get them blacklisted have you seen the smarmy cunts that are taking over that company?

>>712783150
Actual pedophiles projecting and seething over cartoons.

>>712761639 (OP)
I think valve's bipolarity to what is or is not allowed has something to do with credit card fuckery. Its gotta be something like them fearing processors just cutting them off over some random porn game

>>712761816
fpbp

Steam is full of trash that shouldn't be there. They should start removing shit and denying applications for new shit

>pedo pedo pedo
Remember when this was used for Witch from Dragon's Crown and Lusamine?

>>712783150
The smaller girls (Shigure, Chocola, Vanilla, Azuki) are too young looking for current day steam.

>>712771290
>>712773148
>>712774108
>>712774439
Has to do with sexualizing minors. doesn't matter if they're 10000 years old, if they are flatchested or have big eyes then they are kids in the eyes of valve

>>712783150
There's incest and actual sex with a minor

Steam should ban shooters because all you do is kill people. This is bad and only encourages violent behavior.

>>712783946
in the r18 version.

>>712783282
You're now just a pedophile if you date a woman 10 years younger than you.

>>712784031
they should ban grand strategy and 4x games for allowing you to roleplay as a dictator.

Someone calling drawings "child porn" has never not been a child abuser. Shartyniggers should all be rounded up and put in jail.

>>712784230
They already tried to do this, it pretty much has fully infected civ. Man am I glad that paradox finally got over this though and will accurately represent slavery in their upcoming game. I wonder how accurately they will represent WW2 in the next HOI.

Why can’t fictional media be allowed to appeal to pedophiles exactly? If the argument is that it will encourage them to harm real kids then why isn’t this applied to anything else that valve already allows such as violence, torture, incest, bestiality, rape etc.?

>>712781552
>>712782491

>>712784230
Role play? All you do in GSGs is paint thr map with an excel spreadsheet.

>>712774439
>noooo valve should be forced to host cp for me ;(
kys you fucking sped

>>712786557
If you host sodomy, bestiality, snuff and guro, you don't get to suddenly have "standards" when it comes to cute and funny.

>>712782295
It's not porn per say, it's sexualization of a minor and what constitutes that is completely up to whichever random reviewer is in charge of the game. Mary is infamous for having australian tier nanny state standards while others will let konoha or mad island onto the store

>>712786557
I know what you are

>>712762226
The process cannot be reversed. When a game gets rejected on Steam that's it. The only chance they have is if people make a big enough fuss like what happened with Chaos;Head and then Valve might do something.

>>712786557
>"I hate lolicons"
>Posts image with loli in thong
Please be a memepost. The image itself is full of lolicon fetish tropes that I have a hard time believing even fly over normalfag heads.

>>712776929
So where can one get this "order us" game right now? Name is generic enough that google turned up nothing.

>>712787608
You can't.

>>712787608
JAST
https://jastusa.com/games/argt001/order-us!
Previously, you could get it on itch.io, but they took it down soon after Steam did. All over a petite anime girl.

>>712782963
Are you talking about something that screenshot didn't reflect? Because that's such bog-standard behavior from steam forum mods, I don't even know why someone would bother to screenshot it.
Attributing their usual "safe space" bullshit to jap-korean vendetta is just nonsensical. If you've got more evidence, let's see it. If not, calm down and hate those dumb fuckers for the correct reasons.

>>712761639 (OP)
Devs should just go to Valves headquarters when they are being ignored.

why the fuck do you useless zoomers need everything to be on steam in the first place? you're just giving them even more of a normalfag audience.

https://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/4324476

>>712783282
It was mocked then, but now we have 9 years of tourists from reddit, twitter, and facebook, and consensus cracking sharty users pushing propaganda unironically.

>>712789148
Because people being able to buy things they like leads to more of those things being made.

>>712781891
BADS is truly severe in this one.

>>712761639 (OP)
Just watch porn

>>712789627
just buy it outside of steam then. the dev will probably even make more money that way.

>>712790819
I do that, but steam adds a large additional portion to the sales so as a fan I'd also want that to be available even if I don't buy it there personally.

>>712761639 (OP)
I can imagine Valve holding meetings about Nekopara
>That Cat Girl Maid game is getting an update
>Yes, what about it?
>You can fuck your sister now
>So what should we do about it?
>...

>>712787287
Exactly. These people don’t even realize they’re reinforcing the very tropes they claim to be against. They’ll virtue signal about “problematic content” with one hand and click the wishlist button with the other. Half of them would fold like paper if you asked them to define what counts as “inappropriate.” It all boils down to who’s reviewing the submission that day and how “offended” they feel before lunch.

>>712790092
Do you even realize what Nekopara is? Or is this the Freudian slip that "just watch porn" actually means "just watch the ZOG approved interracial cuckold/gangbang porn on Mindgeek/Brazzers"?

>>712786557
In all relevant countries, drawings arent considered people
Just as videogames arent real life and you can shoot villagers in minecraft

Are Campo Santo fags still running the review process?

>>712791981
Evidently, or some even more pozzed retards took their place.

>>712791603
There's no sex in the steam version though.

>>712774384
>because they stop it from getting to that point in the first place

Evenicle 1 has been on Steam for like 5 fucking years. The courts don't care, only Visa and Mastercard. Which is reason in itself, but someone has to stand up to those fucks.

>>712791894
There has been a bad trend of politicians going after the low hanging fruit and trying to ban those drawings though, even though most child aid organisations say that's a massive waste of time and money as long as there are real children in abusive situations that need help. Calling drawings child porn and banning them so you can claim you "banned child porn" is just a badge some corrupt politicians want before retiring to Epstein's new abode.

>>712786557
>red and yellow twintail baubles
>security chip thing on choker
>Visa girl's underwear drawing your attention to the V shape
I've always though these were really clever designs.

>>712791886
Absolutely nailed it. People toss out “just watch porn” like it’s some grand take, but ignore the whole point of works like Nekopara—it's not just coom material, it's storytelling, aesthetics, mood. You don’t go to a Michelin restaurant for a protein bar, you do it for the experience. Meanwhile, the mainstream stuff pushed by corpo sites is algorithmically gobbled garbage with the emotional range of a wet sock. Mainstream porn is content, VNs are art—whether it makes you cry, laugh, or nut is beside the point.

>>712761816
that's 90% of steam games

I thought it was pretty good. i do wish the orgy scene was longer and more detailed. And I still don't get why only Azuki is the designated anal slut. What about Coconut? What about Fraise? I need more nekopara.

>>712798512
I thought people said Shigure got no anal, but buttplugs don't count or something? Also that one CG at the beach, where IS that tail connected to?

Imagine continuing to promote anime racism in the year of our Lord 2025.

>>712771290
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLPJGOS5lOs

>>712771290
Ugly WEGslop is allowed as it plays into the glorification of ugliness demoralization agenda.

>>712788160
>12 dollaru
Nigga u srs

>>712792650
The thing is the media kept falling for it and anyone not falling in line will be made into pariah and their credibility questioned. A good old regime of fear. Trust me, I've lived in such a despotic shithole all my life and I've learned to recognize such pattern whenever they try it.

>>712761639 (OP)
Dw guys, mary is on the case

>>712786675
>(You
>>712786761
>>712787158
>>712787287
>>712791894
t. seething chomos

>>712786557
based

>>712791886
yeah, a porn game, you fucking gooner. neck yourself. the world would be a better place without you.

>>712783813
flat chested women deserve love too. it's incredibly bigoted to erase flat chested representation.

>>712803847
Flat chests don't count as women to the establishment, they have no human rights.

>>712804165
based
When will we start genociding the manlets too?
I have had it with those uppity dwarves

Do steam drones have a stroke when they walk in a park and see a bunch of children (OMG I SAW CHILDREN I AM PEDO)

>>712761639 (OP)
i'm confused because nekopara 1 has been on steam for some time now

>>712771290
lolicon culture is a systemic threat