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Valve bows to Kremlin: LGBTQ+ solitaire game [Flick Solitaire] pulled from russian Steam [cited a 2006 federal law prohibiting the "promotion of non-traditional sexualities"] (www.player.one)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Your choice as Valve here is to either delist or not be in Russia. It is easy for me, as someone not in Russia, to cheer Valve to fight the good fight. But, it would suck if I were in Russia and suddenly lost access to my games.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is the most sane take I've seen. It's honestly weird how ignorant this thread is, regional censorship is not new. Australia has a habit of banning violent games. The Middle East and China have a habit of censoring all sorts of things. Many countries have their own laws of what is and isn't okay and they fluctuate all the time. My friend in Germany couldn't play Wolfenstein because any games with Nazi imagery were illegal until relatively recently.

    Literally every company that operates in those countries also censor their stuff. The only reason this article exists is because [thing but Russia] gets more clicks and outrage compared to [thing in fifty other countries]. You're free to hate Steam for it but this isn't weird or exclusive behavior. They're running a business.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    It's almost always wrong, and businesses should pull out of those places. I hope they pull out of my country if they pull similar shit. If you support bad values, you should be punished. And if losing their games makes people finally overthrow the magats, then that must be done

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I don't know why it's news at all. It happens in every other country with any amount of censorship, US included.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    But, it would suck if I were in Russia and suddenly lost access to my games.

    Another reason not to rely on steam as a central point of failure.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not a defense, but aren't a lot of the steam games at least runnable without the front end?

    Not as much as GOG obviously, but some ?

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I play online games since counterstrike 1.4 came out. If russians lose access to online games, it would make every online game in europe better. It sucks for them, but maybe they need their own servers so they can be toxic to themselves.

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