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
📌 概要
澳大利亚反色情组织Collective Shout去年向Mastercard、PayPal等支付渠道施压，促使Steam和Itch.io下架大量成人游戏。恐怖游戏《猛鬼追魂：复活》开发商批评此举是对艺术形式的荒谬打压，但相信凭借与克里夫·巴克IP的关联，他们有望在这场审查风波中存活。
⚡ 关键要点
- ▸Collective Shout施压支付巨头，成功迫使Steam和Itch.io清理成人游戏
- ▸审查对含性内容的开发者造成寒蝉效应，上架前景不明
- ▸《猛鬼追魂：复活》开发商认为此举荒谬，但倚仗IP背景仍有信心
- ▸独立中小游戏开发者成为平台与支付渠道博弈的牺牲品
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 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.
Just last week, we saw how Valve blocked Molleindustria's Future? No Thanks! due to its scenes of minor nudity. Then, only after public lobbying, did they manage to get Valve to reconsider and rescind their ban.
So, after playing a half hour demo of Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival, a demo set almost entirely inside a fetish club, and one featuring male nudity, female nudity, and some pretty sexually explicit content, I asked the developers if they were worried about a Steam ban or if it had led to any changes to the game.