Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp

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• ArfArfWoof@europe.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They also added a “capybara” tag. Exactly one game in it.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so far

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    • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m going to develop a new games called Capybara Idol Group Manager Simulator, where you have to schedule shows for Capybaras with big personalities.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re insidious, a warning is necessary.

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought there’d be way more games with Capybaras.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “NSFW” is a terrible label and people should stop using it.

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  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    depends on the context, it does function well for its actual label, but it’s use as a somewhat general tag is not great.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Finally! It’s much easier to find what you’re looking for when the description actually, you know, describes.

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  • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Next step: Tags by kink

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then tag every fighting game with sadomasochism

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Automatic f-list sync when?

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• lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I appreciate that as what’s currently tagged as Not Safe For Work in many sources are actually fine for work and adults, it’s immature minds (usually those under 16) and people under the influence of conservative values that it’s not safe for

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Omg did they just use the c bomb in that game? They did! I am going to complain!

    Meanwhile at work - hey jack, some cunts on the phone for you!

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• Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nothing new; they just renamed “unavailable in Germany” to “sexual content”.

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Europe it’s less controversial to display nudity. Nudity and sex are 2 different things. However violence, blood and gore is generally hidden on screen.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Steam in Germany is a bit of a special case. Basically, they got criticized for years for offering adult-only games to minors on account of not having any kind of legally accepted age check.

      Steam finally reacted to this but not by implementing PostIdent or some other age verification scene. No, they just blocked German users from even seeing the store pages of anything that doesn’t have an age rating in Germany. That mostly means porn games.

      Hence my comment that “sexual content” and “unavailable in Germany” are pretty much the same thing as far as Steam is concerned.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a pretty big change…

  NSFW is useless for video games anyways.

  But when it was tied to “gore”, if you tried to hide shitty horny games, you ended up hiding the vast majority of games too.

  “Sexual content” still isn’t perfect tho, one “hot coffee” scene would likely trigger it like a game whose entire point is sus looking anime characters.

  It wouldn’t be bad if there wasn’t so many, but it just clogs up the store with slop because dumb kids pay the $5-20 so the store pushes them. If someone breaks down and buys one, they’re prob very likely to keep buying them. So the algo (blindly) pushes them on everyone.

  They need to just admit that a significant number of games on steam only exist as porn. And then they’d be able to actually separate them. But that’s a can of worms they’ll want to ignore as long as possible.

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  • Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Steam did change their general “mature content” filtering recently-ish I think. That’s independent of tags.

    In your account settings you can go to your Store preferences and enable or disable if you want “mature content”, violence and gore, “some nudity”, and possibly others, along with some example games for those categories.

    Since I’m from Germany it stops at “some nudity”, since more explicit stuff is blocked here anyway, but if you’re from a more developed country you should get one or two more options.

    That way you shouldn’t need to rely on tags to filter out all the porn games (if that’s what you want).

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• irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who the fuck is playing Steam games at work?

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  • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One turn of Civ in between tickets is healthy for you

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    • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hell. reverse the order, a ticket between turns, and you’ll be there forever. Just one more turn.

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  • eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well my boss told me to work hard. 🍆

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  • Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bongo Cat keeps me motivated and productive, damnit!

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Streamers?

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People with boring jobs with a lot of down time?

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  • irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fair point on all the comments. I guess I was thinking of a cubical office.

    I just can’t imagine anyone playing potentially NSFW games for the first time in an office environment. Then again I guess that may be why they are revamping the system.

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