The adult game crackdown is "ridiculous for our art form", say Hellraiser devs, but they think they'll survive thanks to that Clive Barker association

Last year, Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout pressured payment processors , such as Mastercard, Paypal, Visa, and Paysafe Limited to withdraw their services from Steam and Itch.io if the stores didn't remove adult games from their shelves.

The short version

• The campaign was successful and many games were impacted .
• The campaign's had a chilling effect, leaving developers making games including any sexual content in a kind of limbo as to whether digital storefronts will host their work.
• Some are ushered through without issue, while others are banned with little recourse.

What happened

Just last week, we saw how Valve blocked Molleindustria's Future? No Thanks! due to its scenes of minor nudity.

Why it matters

Then, only after public lobbying, did they manage to get Valve to reconsider and rescind their ban.

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