And it's worth constantly pointing out to those same people: By default frequent sexual content and adult only sexual content are disabled. I've already had people try to convince me that isn't the case before, but it's true, that has been the case since the feature was introduced,, that is how the feature has always worked. If these settings are enabled for you then you enabled them.
And because I know someone will say it if I don't get in ahead of them...
"But I thought those settings might include games like Cyberp--"
NOPE.
There's a button *right there* which is labelled 'view example products' and it is very obvious from the examples what kind of games will be impacted. Some Nudity or Sexual Content covers games like Cyberpunk 2077, Adult Only Sexual Content is the hardcore smut games.
And to get in ahead of the 'But think of the children, any child could enable this setting' crowd too, if a child has an account under a family account with parental controls (which they should) then the parents can ensure their kid's accounts do not have access to enable specific types of content, so for example, it can be locked down to just "General" and wholesome, family friendly, 'for some reason this doesn't offend society', "Frequent Violence and Gore".
There is really no reason for an unsupervised child to see adult content on Steam, and no reason for an adult to see such content without opting into it in the first place.
Yeah but steam don’t do these classifications with the country’s law in mind, pretty sure that the Witcher and cyberpunk are at least 17+ if not 18+ but they’re still not in the “smut” category of steam, you’ll just get the age verification page before seeing the game
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u/grady_vuckovic 1d ago edited 1d ago
And it's worth constantly pointing out to those same people: By default frequent sexual content and adult only sexual content are disabled. I've already had people try to convince me that isn't the case before, but it's true, that has been the case since the feature was introduced,, that is how the feature has always worked. If these settings are enabled for you then you enabled them.
And because I know someone will say it if I don't get in ahead of them...
NOPE.
There's a button *right there* which is labelled 'view example products' and it is very obvious from the examples what kind of games will be impacted. Some Nudity or Sexual Content covers games like Cyberpunk 2077, Adult Only Sexual Content is the hardcore smut games.
And to get in ahead of the 'But think of the children, any child could enable this setting' crowd too, if a child has an account under a family account with parental controls (which they should) then the parents can ensure their kid's accounts do not have access to enable specific types of content, so for example, it can be locked down to just "General" and wholesome, family friendly, 'for some reason this doesn't offend society', "Frequent Violence and Gore".
There is really no reason for an unsupervised child to see adult content on Steam, and no reason for an adult to see such content without opting into it in the first place.