Valve To Roll Back Sexual Content Crackdown

<p>Valve is set to roll back its sexual content crackdown&period; However&comma; the move is unconfirmed on their part&period; The news comes from several developers who had games with sexual content on Steam&period; That being said&comma; the company has reportedly apologized to several developers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many of the games are being &&num;8220&semi;re-reviewed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to the teams&period; Many have received emails to that effect&period; Each took to Twitter to speak about it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Apologies<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>In addition to that&comma; one of the main developers being apologized to is HuniePot&period; The studio made had problems with their last release&period; Taking to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;HuniePotDev&sol;status&sol;997979877977436160">Twitter<&sol;a>&comma; the team said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr" lang&equals;"en">&&num;8220&semi;<em>I have just received word from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;valve">Valve<&sol;a> apologizing for the confusion&comma; saying to DISREGARD their previous e-mail about the violation&comma; that they are in the process of re-reviewing the game and will follow up soon&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developer followed up&comma; saying that it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean they&&num;8217&semi;re out of the woods yet&period; The sentiment is being echoed by LupieSoft and the developers of Tropical Liquor&period; This is good news for fans of those games&period; However&comma; that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean they still won&&num;8217&semi;t be taken off or banned Steam&period; They are currently being &&num;8220&semi;re-reviewed&&num;8221&semi; and&comma; because of that&comma; could still be found to violate Steam regulations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>National Center on Sexual Exploitation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has said they forced Valve to step up on sexual content&period; At the time&comma; they <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;endsexualexploitation&period;org&sol;steam&sol;">said<&sol;a>&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>This sudden action by Steam&comma; owned by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;half-life-writer-marc-laidlaw-leaves-valve&sol;">Valve<&sol;a>&comma; comes after a two year campaign by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation which included naming the company was named to the Dirty Dozen List&comma; and most recently a heightened week-long grassroots campaign&comma; which began on May 10th&comma; where individuals from around the country requested Steam to remove sexually exploitive content&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the company hasn&&num;8217&semi;t said anything publicly yet about the NCSE&period; Because of the nature of the content&comma; the company also hasn&&num;8217&semi;t said anything about the new change&period; However&comma; that should change in the coming weeks&period; The studios in question will confirm the ruling on their games&semi; however&comma; that will be focused on each game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;pcgamer&period;com&sol;valve-rolls-back-crackdown-against-sexual-content-on-steam&sol;">PC Gamer<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;