Credit: ValveValve just published a lengthy announcement about how the company plans to handle controversial games that are released on Steam. Rather than try to police controversial content, the company will adopt an 'anything goes' policy, so long as games in question don't contain "things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling." Instead of policing content, then, Valve plans to develop tools to allow Steam users to simply not see the offending games. If I owned a bookstore, I would defend controversial books' right to exist. Steam Direct isn't enough to stop a constant barrage of half-baked "games" to make their way onto Steam each month.

Source: Forbes June 07, 2018 12:00 UTC