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6c50c6 No.16334921
And some other visual novels but that's less important. Rance has actual gameplay and is probably the best actual game banned so far. Mangagamer have Sengoku Rance in beta as well so that's not going to happen now. http://archive.is/e3oIT
>A handful of adult games have been banned from Steam, including the combination package of Rance VI and Rance 5D, as well as Star Guardians, and Gods of Hentai. This is all despite the fact that last year Valve said they would no longer be the “taste police” once the adult filters were implemented. The games were submitted for approval but were denied from Valve, thus being banned from appearing on Steam.
>First up, is the R18+ sci-fi visual novel from the same developers that brought you the BDSM title, Catgirl, which is actually currently available on the Steam store right now. According to the Steam Spy for Star Guardians, the developers, Yumekakiya, had already finished and submitted a demo to Steam. The shows that the Star Guardians demo was added to the database back on February 22nd, 2019, but on February 24th, 2019 it was removed according to SteamDB entry. It then had a number of additions and removals for the adult content, making it difficult to determine if the demo was the R18+ version of the game or if it was the all-ages version. However, both the demo and the base version of Star Guardians were banned from Steam on April 3rd, 2019, according to the Steam Database. While the game may be banned from Steam, you can currently purchase Star Guardians from the DLSite store page.
>The next game on the list is actually two games: Rance VI and Rance 5D, both of which were packaged together in a bundle. Unfortunately, there isn’t much known about the bundle other than that it was submitted to the Steam database on March 22nd, 2019 and banned on April 3rd, 2019. In North America and Europe, Alice Soft’s Rance games are typically published by MangaGamer. At the moment MangaGamer is currently finishing up Rance Quest Magnum and prepping it for release, along with Rance IX: The Helmanian Revolution. They’re also still beta testing Sengoku Rance and early into the translation process of Rance X: Showdown, as detailed on the MangaGamer blog. Apparently they had plans on releasing some of the Rance games on Steam, but Valve put an end to that when they banned both Rance VI and Rance 3D on April 3rd, 2019 according to the SteamDB entry. The games’ store pages weren’t even approved to go live. So don’t expect to see any of the Rance games on Steam, and Valve obviously hasn’t explained why the games are banned or why they won’t be allowed on the Steam store.
6c50c6 No.16334933
>>16334921
>The same applied for Gods of Hentai, which was also banned without any discernible reason. Unlike Rance, however, it actually was approved to have a store page and even had a community hub. The game was originally supposed to enter into Early Access on February 23rd, 2019 after getting the store stats in order, but then after February 24th, 2019, the store configurations began to change and the details and release dates were removed. On April 3rd, 2019 the game was banned, according to the SteamDB entry. What’s really interesting with Gods of Hentai is that this game wasn’t even that hardcore. In fact, an archive of the store page notes that it was themed more around erotic art than flatout porn
<“This game is a mmorpg hentai game, with adult content starting from the loading screen.
Graphics are more Erotics than porn, the global design is colorful and the characters are designed by a French artist.”
>This is actually a fairly accurate description of the game based on the NSFW gameplay trailer, which you can view below. Unfortunately, since Valve now deletes the entire community hubs for banned games it’s impossible to tell if the developers explained why their game was banned. And since Valve refuses to make announcements for the bans, it’s impossible to know what the actual reasons were for removing a game like Gods of Hentai, especially since it didn’t appear to contain any loli characters. But at this point it seems like a crap shoot to get your game on Steam, as it can be banned or denied release seemingly for any number of reasons. All of these games now join the ever-growing Waifu Holocaust 2.0 banned list. For some developers it seems like the only way to guarantee a release on Steam is to remove all fan-service, all loli characters, any school references, and all of the explicit content.
http://archive.is/e3oIT
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/04/rance-vi-rance-3d-star-guardians-gods-of-hentai-banned-from-steam/81474/
I can't work out how to download that nsfw trailer so if someone else can grab it and post it that'd be good
ce4e33 No.16334939
Based steam, banning degenerate games from making a profit of hard working Americans.
d04877 No.16334940
>>16334921
>Mangagamer have Sengoku Rance in beta as well so that's not going to happen now.
They'll hopefully just release it on a non-cucked platform.
6c50c6 No.16334941
6c50c6 No.16334944
>>16334940
That'd be the ideal outcome. The problem is (((Steam))) has a near monopoly on digital sales and cutting off that potential revenue harms the few good developers left out there.
d04877 No.16334948
>>16334944
Things will never improve if devs don't band together and oppose valve.
d1ed09 No.16335042
>>16334921
Why the fuck would Steam ban Rance?
Rance doesn't even like lolis.
Welp Steam is no longer allowing adult titles I guess. Too good to be true.
604c40 No.16335107
How do they keep getting away with this?
They are literally trying to shape the industry using their monopoly.
26c1d0 No.16335112
>>16334948
By going to Epic™ game store, CCP will pay you for exclusivity rights
>>16334933
> Gods of Hentai, which was also banned without any discernible reason.
it seems to be a (((mindgeek))) gachashit hosted on (((nutaku))).
4cd4da No.16335127
>>16334939
What's the response from them against their Chinese competitors, the Epic Game Store? Or are they going the "too big to fail" approach?
daeb4e No.16335131
I remember when everyone freaked out because they banned a Yuri Futa game and then it was revealed that it was only taken down because the majority of the assets were stolen. Considering that this game doesn't have anything in it that Steam doesn't like, there has to be an actual reason for it being removed from the store pages.
10a696 No.16335142
Good, Steam never deserved Rance and anyone who bought it there is a massive cuckold
Steamdrones deserve rope like anyone else who buys from AAA companies
ed40ee No.16335195
>>16335042
>Rance doesn't even like lolis.
You haven't played the remakes, I see.
4d92d8 No.16335215
Just buy them from mangagamer. Its why they exist.
Steam is for normal people and they dont like rape. The uncultured swine. But what can you do?
d1ed09 No.16335332
>>16335215
Those same "normal" people like Game of Thrones
6f62ee No.16335349
>Epic is out for blood
>yet Steam thinks censoring and banning shit is a good PR move
e64ff2 No.16335368
>It's still available on DLsite or any other platform most likely
>Wanting to support online DRM
>Crusading against this despite the fact that you were going to pirate it anyways
Don't even pretend like you actually were going to fucking buy it. Don't bullshit me nigger. How many of you actually buy these games?
dfcbaf No.16335402
>Rance won't be thrown before the casualniggers using steams
Based valve.
056d64 No.16335419
>>16334939
Who are you thinking of?
691eb9 No.16335424
>>16335368
The point is that this leads to more censorship.
e64ff2 No.16335470
>>16335424
So then don't use services that perform censorship. You have multiple marketplaces, use them. There's nothing that says Steam has to be the end all be all. If it isn't available on one platform, it's as simple as going to DLsite and buying it there. Steam won't get your money. It's literally that simple.
1ec63d No.16335501
>>16335424
Steam should not have hentai games in the first place. The last thing anyone should want is for normalfags to encroach on another niche market and shit it up. The koreans did that enough with their pushing of NTR.
056d64 No.16335526
>>16335501
Why would normalfags even be playing porn games in the first place?
ebf150 No.16335541
>>16335195
There are no lolis in rance.
1ec63d No.16335551
>>16335526
Because it's "ironic".
>>16335541
There are depending on the game. There are also plenty of flatter girls that normalfags would call lolis despite being adults.
056d64 No.16335566
>>16335541
Take Shinobu for example. She's in the game, but the closet she gets to having porn is her silly outfit that exposes her nipples.
ed792c No.16335587
>>16334921
>>16335042
>>16335131
This isn't even a ban, these are just submissions that were denied.
For all we know they could have just done their paperwork wrong or something.
This is just another FUD thread.
000000 No.16335837
>>16334921
Buying is for retards. Pirate everything.
>>16335107
>How do they keep getting away with this?
>their monopoly
You answered it yourself. Anytime that you give money to any company, you are feeding your own enemies and making them grow.
06c5e4 No.16335850
The Rance Quest translation has been the biggest shitshow ever. It could have been translated before that one idiot decided all the previous games needed to be done. 2 months of translation and it would have been done. I did all the hard shit getting items to display properly and editing images.
099de8 No.16335871
>>16335837
I have to say Luciano Mendez, you've gotten much more literate.
10a696 No.16335886
>>16334940
You mean like their own storefront?
1c56eb No.16335890
>>16335587
>denied submissions
>after promising they wouldn't curate content
>implying Rance would have any problems
Imagine being this much of a steamdrone
2e1855 No.16335904
>>16335850
Just learn Japanese. Mangagamer translations are shit anyway my dude
826019 No.16335932
>>16335904
>just learn Japanese
About 2 weeks ago I would have laughed at the idea of learning an entire fucking language just for some smut. And yet here I am, considering spending what little free time I still have researching moonrunes so I can read about a bodysuit-wearing earth defense squad getting tentacled.
099de8 No.16335939
>>16335932
I know that feel. It shouldn't be this difficult. But the professional translators are more interested in pozzing and (((localizing))) and with "ironic weebs" clogging the internet, do-it-for-free groups have started to become self-important and autistic.
fa2f32 No.16336002
>>16335939
>do-it-for-free groups have started to become self-important and autistic.
>started to
They were always like this.
b7f64c No.16336006
>>16334921
Isn't there already an English translation of Rance 5D and Rance VI out already? Is this meant to be the (((official))) translation or something?
>>16335932
Welcome to the club. Reminder that you will learn, but it'll be a painful process from beginning to end
2e1855 No.16336012
>>16336006
It's not that painful (except in the beginning), it just takes a few years.
9087a0 No.16336040
>>16334921
I guess they dont like monster rape.
1ec63d No.16336046
>>16336006
>Isn't there already an English translation of Rance 5D and Rance VI out already? Is this meant to be the (((official))) translation or something?
The English translation is the official translation. That said you could already buy the game on mangagamer's own site or pirate it and could do so for quite so time. This is just the steam release being taken down which is a good thing.
373ded No.16336052
>>16335932
There's also literature. The main reason I started learning was so I didn't have to deal with translations when reading Osamu Dazai, Mishima Yukio, Murakami Haruki, etc, etc. Any translation is a bad translation. There's just varying degrees of bad.
099de8 No.16336143
>>16336002
Moreso than usual, then.
>>16336052
I disagree. I feel good translations do exist; XSEED for example has tried to maintain faithfulness. Problem is, there aren't many translators who aren't politically motivated, failed writers living vicariously through someone else's work, or aren't suffering from some other form of personality defect/otherwise lacking in professionalism.
2e1855 No.16336152
>>16336143
>I feel good translations do exist
They don't. Especially in video games.
373ded No.16336157
>>16336143
There's always something being lost during translation. Reading The Lord of the Rings in my native language and then re-reading it in English made me realize that bad translations weren't just limited to shit dubs for movies.
099de8 No.16336160
>>16336157
Could you give me an example?
eeee12 No.16336172
>>16336157
Know the feel Polish is the king of shit languages to translate into with godawful translators to boot.
MYDŁO POWIDŁO
106e8b No.16336184
>>16336172
The Russian translations of LotR are probably the worst considering they seem to barely have heard of the book despite writing book length fan fiction about it.
008601 No.16336503
>>16335332
Does GoT glorify rape? I only read the books.
Look I'm sexually degenerate. But I understand that most people are not. You don't sell porn at a toy store. Steam is not for people like me, I have to go deeper. And that is totally fine.
e27e52 No.16336536
Steam is starting to have cold sweats because of the epic store, now they see porn games as an obstacle rather than an opportunity, expect to see more and more lewd games being removed soon, specially anime games because that's what trigger the journos the most, they seriously hate creative freedom, and they can't stand the liberty those dirty japs have.
2fe104 No.16336766
>>16336536
>now they see porn games as an obstacle rather than an opportunity
Which is still stupid you get customers with exclusives not by being the same as everything else.
864076 No.16336774
>>16336503
Don't fuck the meat monster anon.
60fb3f No.16337532
>>16335343
is this how AIDS looks like under microscope?
d4f06b No.16338005
>>16335541
>what is kou
>what is セラクロラス
Rance just doesn't fuck lolis.
c3b83a No.16341501
>advertising to your friends you play weeb shit.
>rapey weep shit no less.
>paying for the privilege to do so.
>on steam
>you don't even own the game, just a license to download it.
056d64 No.16341512
>>16341501
>advertising to your friends you play weeb shit.
>not setting your status to invisible
d33ede No.16341517
>>16335932
Same, but not for lewds, more for all the old ass JP computer games and the like.
2e1855 No.16341537
>>16341517
Most PC-88/98 games are eroge.
056d64 No.16341551
>>16341545
You don't have sibilings?
9087a0 No.16341554
>>16335932
>so I can read about a bodysuit-wearing earth defense squad getting tentacled.
that is nice, i guess, for me is pic related.
d33ede No.16341556
>>16341537
Yeah, but there's still quite a lot of games I know will likely not even get fan translated in my lifetime. I want to get at least a loose understanding of moon runes so I have some vague idea what I'm even playing.
8d01e6 No.16341576
Didn't a VN about dog fucking faggots get steam approval?