Quoting: ShmerlIf that's not clear still, I'll repeat but one last time, since I said it several times already. If Feral have an issue with GOG in particular, they can release the game through other means DRM-free...

Why do you assume that they are even allowed to release the games as DRM-free? The majority of the games they port are not even available as DRM-free on Windows. It's not like when they make a Linux version it becomes Ferals property and they can do whatever they want with the game?

We are talking about an industry that is still very much into platform-exclusive titles, locked-down consoles, Denuvo, StarForce, etc. Do you really think Feral does not have enough battles to fight?

Quoting: Shmerl...smaller companies than them do it just fine, it's not an insurmountable task. Feral aren't interested...

You are greatly underestimating the cost involved. They would have to maintain a separate build of the game that has Steam functionality stripped, different installers, and possibly different set of libraries. These games are complex, and a lot can go wrong.

Quoting: Shmerl...GOG Linux team...

A what?

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Why is everybody so up in arms about publishers not putting their games on GOG? Sure, DRM-free is important, but they are doing very little, if anything, to push Linux adoption. They have no Linux-compatible client (GOG Galaxy), no easy way to distribute updates, no standardized runtime, don't port their own games to Linux, nothing that would actually invite Linux users and developers.

GOG could become a great alternative to Steam if they actually cared about Linux, but until then Steam is much more Linux-friendly platform run by a much more Linux-friendly company.

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Yeah, I paused mine because of Destiny 2.

I am not a fan of point and click games, but Pillars of the Earth does seem tempting. Did anybody try it already? Would you recommend it to someone that did not enjoy The Book of Unwritten Tales, like at all?

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Quoting: Warpig...There are millions of people waking up to this dark reality just like me all around the globe...

Oh come on, the world is not a dark place as you see it. Sure, horrible things happen. Even to people dear to us. Even to ourselves. But that is no indication of some epidemic of crime or global conspiracy. There are a lot of good decent people in the world. The opposite is an exception, not the rule.

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Quoting: Guestsex breeds violence

Put that on a t-shirt. :D

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Quoting: WarpigIt's because pedophilia is a huge problem right now...world wide. Did you see the news about the bishops in Chile? They all resigned over sex abuse. Maybe your not paying attention...There is an elite pedophilia ring that traffics children for sex and then engages in organ harvesting. It's a dark, dark time...and we better wake up. I support valves decision to eliminate games that depict underage girls or boys engaging in sexual acts. Maybe I'm old fashioned. Witcher and GTA do not have what look to be underage girls having sexual relations...IMO.

Not sure if you are serious or not? How is pedophilia any bigger problem right now than it was like 20 years ago? And how are Valves actions going to solve any of that?

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Quoting: 1xokI'm not interested in these Japanese girl games. But it's ultra sick when someone need to banish something like that. Adult or not: https://minecraft.novaskin.me/skin/5772784549756928/Kyu-Sugardust-Huniepop [External Link]

How sick is our society today? Do we want conditions like in Iran? Get out on the street!

This one should be safe to fap to. But you may want to consult a lawyer just to be on the safe side.


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Quoting: tuubiIf Valve only bans games with children in a sexual context, I don't mind at all.

But that is not the case at all. HuniePop does not contain children in sexual context. At best it has characters that may appear to be young.

To play the devils advocate I have to say I do understand why Valve may want to stay way clear of this. There are quite a few countries, also in Europe, that have really vague and far reaching laws. Like cartoon depictions of underage characters being legally equal to actual child pornography. Some even criminalize literature. Yes, words.

But let's not pretend that there is any child pornography in HuniePop. Because there isn't.

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My vote for the most underage looking HuniePop character would probably go to Kyu. :P

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Quoting: ElectricPrismAccording to other articles on the web, some of the images in the game, though cartoon have girls that appear to be underage. Underage sex, consensual or not is in most places still illegal.

Oh give me a break. They are cartoons. They can appear to be anything. They are not real. They cannot consent to anything, and you cannot hurt them. They are figments of somebodys imagination.

Nobody is promoting underage sex here. It's all about somebodys subjective perception of what age the cartoon character looks like. You cannot with a straight face say that you can tell the difference between a cartoon depiction of a 16-year old, and a 25-year old.

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