They're starting with smaller markets just to test the waters and see how Valve responds.

For what reason? This is making Paypal loose money (the worst thing that can happen to a capitalistic company), Steam is handing out ungodly amounts of money to Paypal so loosing them as a customer is guaranteed not something that Paypal is planning.

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If not you, then whom? 😐

It is the payment processor, I assume that many people have no clue how this all works since they started to blame VISA and Mastercard for this. To be able to process cards in your store (online or offline) you have to have both an agreement with a card company (VISA, Mastercard and so on) and a payment processor (Klarna, Stripe, Paypal and so on) and it is these last ones that makes lots of demands, at least that is my own experience from having implemented payment solutions as a startup many years ago (they had strict rules against porn, weapons and so on and you had to go through a whole vetting process before they allowed you to use their services).

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You cannot copyright a style. If the new game is a co-op survival game and the old game is a single-player action role-playing game then the new game isn't a clone or copy. Otherwise you may as well say that Company of Heroes is a clone/copy of Medal of Honour.

Try and make a co-up survival game of Supermario and get back to us how well that worked out for you. The type of gamestyle does not matter here, neither would it matter if you rewrote Harry Potter to be in space in order to avoid being sued into oblivion by JK Rowling.

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Why "Clive Barker's Jericho" was removed?

The age old "licensing issues". Apparantly they only licenses the right to use Clive Barker's name for a limited period.

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that dont work because you can put money into your steam wallet using any payment provider, so they wont accept it eitherway.

Plus that these providers will simply refuse to do business with you if your store in any way shape or form sells these items. They are not interested in "you cannot pay with VISA to buy this", they are interested in "any store that uses VISA is not allowed to sell X".

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To make it clear, I am no more in support of censorship than anyone else on this site.

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.

Could it be just as simple that the payment processors are just protecting themselves, should one of the federal governments choose to see their accepting payments for material of this nature as financially supporting illegal activities?

Is it appropriate for these corporations to be enforcing morality? No -- but do you really think that any of the North American governments are going to step in and slap their wrists for doing so? The governments have been allowing the corporations to interfere in the area of regulation more and more these days. I highly doubt they'll do even so much as peep about the matter.

Personally, I like the suggestion from @Cybolic on how Valve should handle the matter.

Performing actual incest is illegal, media showing (pretended) incest is not. This is not at all about incest, this is 100% about sex. I have personally been on the negotiation table to get access to various card payment providers and they all have stipulations that they will not support your business if you deal in weapons, drugs or porn. Steam/Valve have zero leverage here except to create their own payment platform (which is hairy and would require to seek bank licensing in all countries so also costly and a regulatory hell).

What we need are governmental regulation stipulating that payment providers cannot dictate what you sell as long as you are not breaking any laws.

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From https://80.lv/articles/playdead-s-limbo-and-inside-are-getting-removed-from-gog [External Link] :

UPD: Dino Patti has told 80 Level that the delisting is likely unrelated to the lawsuit and more likely tied to Playdead's efforts to remove Patti's name from the credits of Limbo and Inside.

"As far as I know, this had nothing to do with the court case," the Co-Founder told us. "It might have something to do with [Playdead CEO Arnt Jensen] removing me from the game credits as he's done on Steam and other stores."

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Thanks, I got it successfully activated from CDKeys now. Steam, Fanatical, GOG, Epic all wouldn't sell it to me. I hate this internet censorship that my country does

I get what you are saying but it is not really censorship, it is simply Germany being extremely hard on verifying the age restriction on media. Most stores that sell media over the Internet in Germany solves this by having buyers sending in images of their driver licenses or national id cards, but Steam, Epic, GOG and so on refuses to do this and therefore 18+ games cannot be sold there legally in Germany. This is a choice those stores did.

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Still unavailable in Germany emoji You need a proxy to even view the store page, how idiotic is that. I'll probably buy it via CDKeys

Due to Steam refusing to perform the age check that Germany requires for 18+ certifications.

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Still waiting for decent graphics tablet and colourspace support in Wayland.

colorspace support (far more advanced than what x11 ever could muster) have been in Wayland for a while now.

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