Illegal according to jurisdiction of which country(ies) exactly?

The one of the seller. If a country wants any other restrictions they can duke it out with Steam on their own to limit what is sold to their people. Having payment processors restrict it for everyone is cracking a nut with a sledgehammer AND giving said hammer to a company to do as they like uncontested.

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But no one has addressed the elephant in the room here. Look over the list of the games being banned. The topic of these games is incest. Now, I can't speak to European regulations -- nor can I speak to Japanese ones either -- but here in North America, incest is illegal.

So is murder. But you'll find a ton of media where it is the main topic. Go into any bookstore – one of the biggest sections will be crime novels and almost all of them are centered around murder. The same goes for a lot of movies, songs, games and even poems.
So yes, incest is illegal – but it being the topic of media is not. If it were, Steam wouldn't list those games in the first place.

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Think about how you would feel if games with guns or blood had to be removed because suddenly PayPal or Mastercard didn't like them. This is dangerous.

They already do stuff like that on a regular basis. For example you cannot pay some VPN Services and OCHs with PayPal or Mastercard.

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Payment processors should never get a say in how people spend their money. Unless it is outright illegal there should be no restrictions – no matter what they, you, I or anyone else thinks about the content.
I am saying this not because I am fond of the delisted games, but because it is very much a slippery slope and one day they will dislike something I want to spend my money on.

edit: typo

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I am a little late, but Happy Birthday nonetheless! :smile:

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The art vibe is really different.

Yeah... and I don't feel like it makes the game look any better. :neutral:

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Oh, that looks interesting! "Somebody wake up Hicks."

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But at some point, we should stop complaining we can't run Amiga games without an emulator.

Excuse me? I'll kill off every second daemon in my system if that'll let me run A500 games natively! :grin:

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Well of course the moment I have just decided to go with Fedora for my new computer this happens. :neutral:

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I looked it up. Has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, and these days the competition is fierce. I'd be fine with banning that for the moronicness level alone.

To be honest, I don't think that that is a good stance to take. Banning mods should not be supported just because one deems them as moronic.

There a couple of problems with this. The first one being that it is a slippery slope you don't want to be on. I agree with you, the mod is nothing to write home about – but that doesn't warrant a ban. Neither does the changing of pronouns. And I fear that while today some mods get banned that we don't like, tomorrow it might well be the ones we do.

The thing here is that while Nexusmods has some (albeit pretty vague) guidelines in place for submitting, those aren't applied the same to all mods in the slightest. There have been several cases where mods do exactly the same thing just with slightly different content where the mods ban one of them just because they don't like it. Take the mods for changing the flags in one of the Spiderman games for example.

I also think it bears repeating that those are singleplayer mods. No matter what someone installs on their system, and no matter if you, I or someone over at Nexusmods thinks it is in good or bad taste, has any effects or consequences on any other person. You only have to deal with said mod, if you actively go search for, install and use it. No one ever has to give it a second thought unless they do that.

I don't think banning mods that are not to our taste just because of that is something to strife for.

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