Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch
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Horses is proving to be something of a surprise hit, at least on the storefronts where you can still buy it.

Currently, only GOG and Itch are still selling this game.

EDIT: It seems the game has returned to Humble Bundle.

  • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    411·
    1 day ago

    The only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.

    You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.

    The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.

    Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      91·
      1 day ago

      the slippery slope starts somewhere.

      You know slippery slope is a fallacy right? The “slippery slope” can also stop anywhere.

      • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        1 day ago

        I regret my short hand of “slippery slope” but it’s not a coincidence that less than 6 months ago payment processors used their influence to get a game pulled from steam and now all of a sudden steam is self censoring based on content.

        Whatever the non-fallacious version of “there’s an escalating pattern here” is what’s happening.

        Go ahead and read up https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/why-steam-banned-adult-games

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
              61·
              1 day ago

              You claimed Steam banned this because of the payment processors. The same payment processors being used by stores that didn’t ban this. Seems a relevant point to the discussion we are having.

              • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                1 day ago

                I’M not claiming steam pulled it due to pressure from payment processors, VALVE reported it. You’d know that if you read the article I posted.

                If you want to participate in the discussion you have to do the reading.

                • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
                  41·
                  1 day ago

                  The article from July explains why Steam banned this game last month, despite Itch (which stopped selling certain games due to the payment processors) is selling it?

                  Who is this article writer that can see 4 months into the future?!

        • LupertEverett@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          13 hours ago

          Except this particular ban happened in 2023, way before the paypros got in the scene.

          https://www.gamesindustry.biz/santa-ragione-co-founder-pietro-righi-riva-on-horses-steam-and-possible-closure-of-the-studio

          Along with the official release date of the game (December 2), the statement revealed that Horses was indefinitely banned on Steam in June 2023 – days before it was set to premiere on IGN’s Summer of Gaming event.

          • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            This is useful information I was not aware of - thank you.

            While I was wrong about Horses, the issue with payment processors forcing censorship on Steam is still true and an enormous issue - Visa doesn’t get a say in what I purchase.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      People are free to pressure retailers on what to sell and what not too. Saying they can’t would be far worse. And the retailer is doing the job of making money… by following the 2ishes of the populace. This is the free market capitalist society we live in. Completly sucks, but it is consistent.

      • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I don’t disagree, I’m just calling the people who choose to complain morons, because again I don’t believe they should be the arbiters of what is acceptable.

        Basically, you’re free to have your opinion, but keep it to your fucking self and your fucking echo chambers you regressive fucking failures (the general you, not you specifically)