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Queer developers speak out as adult games remain in limbo following payment processor showdown at Steam and itch.io
When developer and Itch Queer Games Bundle co-founder Taylor McCue awoke one morning in late July it was to panic onlin…
Earlier that month, Steam made headlines after Valve quietly updated its developer guidelines to prohibit "certain types of adult content" and confirmed it would be "retiring" select games following conversations with payment processors. Behind-the-scenes, conservative Australian pressure group Collective Shout had been inundating payment processors with complaints about Steam, ostensibly protesting the presence of "rape, sexual torture, and incest games" on the platform following the controversy around No Mercy. Despite obvious and understandable frustration among developers, many we spoke to expressed some sympathy for the storefronts caught up in Collective Shout's crusade, and rejected the notion payment processors should, as McCue puts it, "get to make moral judgements about art."
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