Yeah, we know such ero games were allowed on steam. And I'm also aware what kind of content is expected for steam version of MBM. And yet - nope, that build was banned.
I agree with what
Stil996 said in his last post, though. It's a shame we already lost a whole month on this process. The review build I knew about was ready on
may 10th.
In fairness, we don't know the actual context. There have also been prior cases of foreign devs simply not getting the hint on Steam and accidentally screwing themselves, especially indie devs.
From what I've read, there's just a lot of random speculation. There are a ton of ero games on Steam that are functionally gutted without the ero patch. The community and devs both know player expect to get the patch... so even doing something like just copying elves or something and replacing the dwarf models with them would work as long as it's uncensored via patch.
IMO the speculation is too off the rails and the 'problems' far too dramatic. It's far, far more likely the devs just aren't understanding how ero games need to work on Steam and are making life harder for themselves unnecessarily. Overall, Black Market would easily be one of the tamest games currently on Steam.
The brutal family rape game didn't even get removed until tons of media dogpiled on it and even then Steam is slow. It's just hard to believe there is anything inherently wrong and/or unfixable with the game.
If we lost the month and if it really was banned, it's probably 1000% the devs' own fault/mistake.