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
    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·
              23 hours 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·
      12 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·
        6 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.