BUT it's not just about making a game with rape, incest, or mutilation. Do you really need to see a crime to be sexually stimulated?
I don't agree with such a broad sanction by the payment companies, but they have the right to not want their brand associated with games that support rape and oppression
Payment companies absolutely do not have the right to block whatever they find unappealing to their 'brand.'
Jesus Christ, their entire purpose is to facilitate transactions between two places, that's it. I hope there are a thousand more games like this that push this wave of censorship to breaking point because ruling what is and is not fit for public consumption is not the job of fucking Visa.
So you are saying that the Biggest problem is the monopoly of payment method, because if there where another, lets say governamental, method of payment thas would need a public hearing, a congress voting to ban such games, it wold not be so easy for the PR guy to just block it.
I with you, but the right they absolutly have, its a private company seaching for the biggenst profit and it do not comes from NSFW games, and that is the real problem. the monopoly of a few private company on such an important asset for the public.
Not considering the USA, of course, Trump does what it wants..
Nobody’s arguing that rape or mutilation are good things. The point is that fiction, even dark and uncomfortable fiction, exists to explore extremes, not to promote them. Just like watching a war film doesn’t make you a war criminal, playing a game with taboo content doesn’t mean you’re about to commit a crime. Shockingly, people are capable of separating fantasy from reality. Who knew?
What’s really worrying is that payment processors are acting like the new moral police, cutting off support to anything that doesn’t fit their blurry definition of acceptable. So who gets to decide what counts as oppressive or too offensive? Is it just whatever makes a PR guy nervous that day?
If a company doesn’t want to be associated with certain content, fine. But at least be consistent, be clear, and stop pretending it’s about protecting people. It’s not. It’s about brand image and control, and that’s a much bigger problem than any piece of messed-up fiction.
Expecting godd sense from a private company... delusional. its going for the most profit and right now its thins moral campaing, They dont give a fuck about right or wrongs. They go for the most profitble momentarly action. In a few months nothing they are doing now will stand.
I understand your point, opression can come in a viriety of ways, and sanction everything reletable with violence would be te most consistant way to act but it is a private company looking for profit. Endosing the moral of the powerful group of the moment is the most profitble action.
I have inherited these censorship tools from their previous holders and have decided that a genre of games you enjoy (train stuff, judging by your other comments) is now banned because it may help those with intent to cause harm familiarise themselves with transportation systems. No more sims, peasant.
See the problem yet?
(For the record: I have no problem with any genre of sim games)
