Jokin aika sitten uutisoitiin, että Steamin omistaja Valve oli asettanut rajoituksia pavelussaan julkaistaville peleille. Valikoimasta oli poistettu aikuisille suunnattuja pelejä, joka puolestaan aiheutti puhinaa verkossa. Nyt Valve on peruutellut taaksepäin, ja uudet linjaukset ovat astuneet voimaan.
Tästä päivästä alkaen Valve ei enää rajoita Steamissa julkaistavia pelejä niiden sisällön mukaan. Poikkeuksen tekevät laittomat pelit ja niin sanotut trollit, jotka siis eivät ole varsinaisia pelejä, vaan puhtaasti vitsejä tavalla ja toisella. Palveluun on lisätty myös toiminto, jolla käyttäjät voivat halutessaan poistaa epätoivottua sisältöä näkymästään.
Englanniksi ilmaistuna näin Valve sen sanoi (katso kuvan alta).
"We ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam, and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store to many more developers: Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this".
"If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy. If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable."
"We already have some tools, but they're too hidden and not nearly comprehensive enough," Valve explains. "We are going to enable you to override our recommendation algorithms and hide games containing the topics you're not interested in. So if you don't want to see anime games on your store, you'll be able to make that choice. If you want more options to control exactly what kinds of games your kids see when they browse the store, you'll be able to do that".
"And it's not just players that need better tools either — developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too."
Kiitokset The Vergelle