...inventors of evil things... Romans 1:30
"Gaming company Valve has finally said it will not carry the controversial visual novel Rape Day on its Steam store.
The zombie apocalypse game, which was not yet for sale but slated to arrive in April, is touted as a story of ‘violence, sexual assault, necrophilia and incest’ and would allow players to ‘verbally harass, kill people, and rape women.’
While players weren’t able to buy it yet, they could add it to their wishlist as of February 19.
After news of its disturbing content sparked massive public outcry over the last few weeks, with gamers and non-gamers alike
demanding for it to be taken down, Valve now says Rape Day will not be available on Steam.
“We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.”
"Gaming company Valve has finally said it will not carry the controversial visual novel Rape Day on its Steam store.
The zombie apocalypse game, which was not yet for sale but slated to arrive in April, is touted as a story of ‘violence, sexual assault, necrophilia and incest’ and would allow players to ‘verbally harass, kill people, and rape women.’
While players weren’t able to buy it yet, they could add it to their wishlist as of February 19.
After news of its disturbing content sparked massive public outcry over the last few weeks, with gamers and non-gamers alike
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| From the "Really" File |
“We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.”
Despite the obvious business and moral incentivize in not abetting the distribution of a game about rape, Valve’s response will nonetheless generate a polarizing response among the gaming community, some members of which feel any form of gaming content, whether it features violence or sexual violence, is a form of free expression worthy of protection.
Some proponents of the game claim it’s depicting simply a variation on violence that is allowed and largely glorified by many mainstream, big-budget titles, like first-person shooters." TheVerge
REALLY?