Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs
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But removing them from the specific games they object to would not lose any more revenue than removing the games entirely, and reduce the backlash significantly, as long as they could find 1 obscure payment provider to handle the obscure games and keep some form of access.
Likely not worth the effort.
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If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a "it's totally not a security, we swear, even though we're only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer" there'd be a lot fewer people calling it a scam.
For sixteen years, crypto's only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud. Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.
If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a "it's totally not a security, we swear, even though we're only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer"
...LTC definitely has been. Monero has and is. BTC's fall was a massive pullback on an extremely new and volatile idea that not even half the buyers entirely understood. BTC now is held up by ETF funds, private equity and everyone that cares putting a few chips in. Is it a scam now? Is everyone scamming everyone?
...there'd be a lot fewer people calling it a scam. For sixteen years, crypto's only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud.
Some would call that decentralization and freedom. Spin it however you like. lol, "Illegal goods". Fuck the system, unless it's not against the grain of the community, right?
Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.
They deserve every negative degree.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
That slope got real slippery real quick.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Yay were back to the 2000s again, Jack Thompson rises again !
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But removing them from the specific games they object to would not lose any more revenue than removing the games entirely, and reduce the backlash significantly, as long as they could find 1 obscure payment provider to handle the obscure games and keep some form of access.
According to the statement someone else linked now, they will ask devs about whether they comply with the payment processors' terms, and it sounds like those processors will otherwise be unavailable. They just had to blanket remove like this for now because they don't actually have sufficient knowledge about all the games' content.
We'll see what will happen, and if it turns out devs are getting screwed in the long run, someone will fill the new market niche anyway.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?
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Man, I knew it was only a matter of time but I didn't think it would be this bad, this soon.
Fear & Hunger is a goddamn masterpiece. Yes, it has depictions of nonconsensual sexual acts. It's in keeping with the lore of a world that is truly fucked even beyond our reality. It's an integral part of the worldbuilding, and it is by no means glorified.
Agreed. Fear and Hunger has it's issues and I would not broadly recommend it to anyone. I would also say that the FREQUENCY of sexual assault in the game, and the presence of some weirdly sexual status effects like anal bleeding are a bit overboard. That being said, when one of the earliest enemies can sexually assault you, or maim your character in a way that leaves you able to keep playing, but effectively crippled, it really nails home not just that the world is dark, but that your assumptions about what is in the game don't apply here. Anything could happen. REALLY anything. And exploring a harsh, hostile world with that expectation set is one of the best parts of the game, because it's a unique experience that you just can't get at that quality anywhere else.
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NOW that they've started curating, that has become way more likely to actually happen. They could have claimed to be a neutral carrier before. Actively filtering means they've decided to take on that responsibility, and the consequences for missing stuff.
They're morons
Time to sue my credit card company for preventing my purchases, but failing to prevent a purchase that was detrimental to me
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I've never seen any argument from them that this is the reasoning.
What argument have you seen from them that is their reasoning?
We don't know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not "no illegal content." It's "no content involving rape or incest" or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn't what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that's what their requirement would say, but it isn't.
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We don't know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not "no illegal content." It's "no content involving rape or incest" or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn't what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that's what their requirement would say, but it isn't.
Okay so none then.
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Okay so none then.
And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn't check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn't about legal content. That already wasn't allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don't know. I'm not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I'm only proving that it isn't what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.
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Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?
A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
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Time to sue my credit card company for preventing my purchases, but failing to prevent a purchase that was detrimental to me
That's one way to not understand what I meant, I guess.
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And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn't check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn't about legal content. That already wasn't allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don't know. I'm not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I'm only proving that it isn't what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.
The point is "I haven't heard them say this" is not a legitimate argument, because you haven't heard them say anything about anything, because they haven't said anything, and speculation is all we have.
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
And kids, that's how I met your mother
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
Nah, most likely Veggie Tales. Elmo is too woke and might cause dissonance with supremacists and Christian Nationalists. Oh, wait. I just repeated myself - sorry.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
I feel like even those games will be banned if we don't stop them now. My thoughts are that games like 'I am Jesus' is the end goal here.
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It's an asterisk...
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
gross, who would fuck them?
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