Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs - 尼未亞 | Nmia Gaming
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Australian activist group Collective Shout has decreed that horror games are too risque, as the recent push to have payment processors pressure platforms like

Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    We don’t know their reasoning. However, we do know their requirement, which is not “no illegal content.” It’s “no content involving rape or incest” or something like that. They have also stated publicly they do not want to be involved in regulating legal content, but, again, that isn’t what they required. If they only cared about illegal content then that’s what their requirement would say, but it isn’t.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        41·
        1 month ago

        And also none from the person above, but the logic doesn’t check out. Using basic inference, we know it isn’t about legal content. That already wasn’t allowed, so no changes needed to be made. There must be another reason. What is it? I don’t know. I’m not making a claim to knowledge of what it is. I’m only proving that it isn’t what the other person claimed. Burden of proof is on the person making a claim, not the one disputing it.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          31·
          1 month ago

          The point is “I haven’t heard them say this” is not a legitimate argument, because you haven’t heard them say anything about anything, because they haven’t said anything, and speculation is all we have.