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Steam and Itch.io removing games, likely targeting some NSFW visual novels (ani.social)

submitted 5 days ago by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to c/visualnovels@ani.social

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Essentially, Steam (check rule 15) and itch.io are getting rid of/delisting content that payment processors don't want to process. (It's mostly adult content.)

This website has more information on what will happen if you own a game that gets delisted, and how to get it back if at all. I would personally recommend downloading it and backing it up somewhere, especially for itch.io which is not listed on the website.

A video with link sources for its information in the description validates this. If you just want to click a link here instead of going to the video, here's one for Steam and one for itch.io.

If you would like to protest this, https://yellat.money/ works for anyone and Americans can take action at https://aclu.com/mastercard.

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks for putting this together! This is an important matter so I'm pinning this thread for visibility.

On a personal note I'm definitely downloading my itch.io library - while none of my games there should fall under the current purge I'd rather not risk it. Steam should be safe as, as far as I know, they don't really have a tendency of removing purchased games from people's accounts (even when delisting titles) but I guess we'll see.

Besides the obvious issue of having to keep constant vigilance about our freedom it's also a good reminder to keep backups of anything you don't want to lose access to. It's the only way to be relatively safe from things like this.