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Hi everyone, another rare discord dev update.
Firstly, E4 is getting there, I’m slightly behind schedule but doing my best to catch up. Early access is still scheduled for 29 Aug and I can’t wait to finish. Nothing in particular I need to talk about regarding E4.
But there’s something else I want to briefly talk about. I wish I could discuss this with you in more detail but right now I’m very swamped with work. A lot of you might have heard about this already but this week the AVN community in particular got some pretty bad news. Steam has caved to the demands of their payment processors (mastercard, visa, paypal) and removed a number of adult games from their store. This is the case for a bunch of games that contain incest or non-consenual themes and Steam now seems to have similar rules to Patreon.
Whether or not these games interest you, this is a massive attack on us developers and threatens your freedom as consumers. Private multinational giga-corporations should not have the power to decide what media you are allowed to consume. Such power is as freakishly scary as it is unethical. These companies should not be able to censor legal content. And the hypocrisy is beyond any logic. Is Game of Thrones going to be banned because it contains incest? Of course not. But things that we enjoy will.
And I think what scares people the most is that this is likely just the start of the growing war against pornography and gaming. Today, incest games are banned. Tomorrow, BDSM games might be banned. The day after, games with lesbian or bisexual characters or group sex might be banned. These companies must not be allowed to control us and we must fight this in any and every way we can.