| the_dengle said: Valve reserves the right to refuse to allow a game to be sold through their platform. The devs would still be free to make the game and distribute it through other means. As this is already a Jim Sterling thread, I'll share a recent Jimquisition episode as a point of comparison. I think it's a similar situation. Valve refusing to sell a particular game on Steam is not censorship any more than Target refusing to stock GTAV is. I don't think asking Valve to have standards is "free speech" issue. |
Well they allowed it and they can either keep it and ride it through or get rid of it and cause the same backlash they got with Hatred. The problem is that they allowed it in the first place, yes, but as it stands in its current state they're in a lose-lose situation.
I'm not saying it is against freed speech to get rid of/not allowing it -this is more directed to the people saying it shouldn't be allowed to exist which a few commenters on different sites have said (haven't really read the comments here in this thread). Should they have better standards? Of course. Is this the tipping point? No, the tipping point happened a LONG time ago. Hopefully in the near future they'll improve their greenlight system.
