In what way is Valve’s approach helping? Encouraging piracy? That’s only going to harm the smaller creators and won’t be used in consideration for getting rid of this censorship crap.
Smaller creators? Aus’s laws include M (whatever Aus’s system calls it) rated games, not just porn. The majority of AAA stuff nowadays is rated M, especially when we’re talking about Steam and get to bypass the whole ‘does Nintendo count as AAA’ debate.
EA and Ubisoft and their ilk are probably not happy with this either.
Valve is the biggest pc gaming storefront. Could they just comply and verify you in the easiest way? Certainly. But how is that going to change anything with that shitty law? In fact, by verifying you “easily”, it becomes an issue for Valve itself because in case someone breaks in and steal your data from them, who are you going to blame? The government that made the stupid law? No, probably the middle man: Valve.
Instead, they decided to go through the tough path: Piss everyone and make it an issue for everyone in the chain. The gamer gets angry because they can’t verify without a card. The dev gets angry because they see piracy rise and when they both point at Valve, Valve can just say: Hey, it’s not my fault, ask whoever is doing this stupid law to go back.
Change often comes from hardship, and there’s very few collectives more complacent than gamers; the only way to make them move in any way is inconveniencing them enough. This aims to do that.
In what way is Valve’s approach helping? Encouraging piracy? That’s only going to harm the smaller creators and won’t be used in consideration for getting rid of this censorship crap.
Smaller creators? Aus’s laws include M (whatever Aus’s system calls it) rated games, not just porn. The majority of AAA stuff nowadays is rated M, especially when we’re talking about Steam and get to bypass the whole ‘does Nintendo count as AAA’ debate.
EA and Ubisoft and their ilk are probably not happy with this either.
Valve is the biggest pc gaming storefront. Could they just comply and verify you in the easiest way? Certainly. But how is that going to change anything with that shitty law? In fact, by verifying you “easily”, it becomes an issue for Valve itself because in case someone breaks in and steal your data from them, who are you going to blame? The government that made the stupid law? No, probably the middle man: Valve.
Instead, they decided to go through the tough path: Piss everyone and make it an issue for everyone in the chain. The gamer gets angry because they can’t verify without a card. The dev gets angry because they see piracy rise and when they both point at Valve, Valve can just say: Hey, it’s not my fault, ask whoever is doing this stupid law to go back.
Change often comes from hardship, and there’s very few collectives more complacent than gamers; the only way to make them move in any way is inconveniencing them enough. This aims to do that.