Jun 7, 2018 04:42 EDT
Valve's Erik Johnson has very clearly, very succinctly opened up about the policy that it will adhere to regarding the sale of content through the Steam Store - it will "allow everything"
said Johnson in a blog post,
"... We've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling. So what does this mean? It means that the Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. Unless you don't have any opinions, that's guaranteed to happen. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist."
This sounds great,
in theory. Restricting content on the internet is wrong, and reprehensible, and from a superficial standpoint, Valve's move is appreciable in an anti-censorship kind of a way. This also has larger implications regarding the distribution of pornographic content on Steam, targeted especially towards VR platforms, which, until now,
has more often than not raised red flags within the store.