Timeline for What is Arqade's current stance on adult games?
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| Aug 29, 2019 at 12:25 | comment | added | JMac | @Sinatr The steam community tags are frequently used as a form of joking around. You will often find tags like "psychological horror" on joke games, because it's a meme. The "nudity" tag would be subject to that as well. I don't see why we would use the tags instead of judging it based on the actual game content and what the question is specifically asking about. | |
| Aug 29, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | JMac | @Sinatr I think there may be a communication issue here. For example, you said Fox is "wrong"; but everything that he said was a personal opinion, and could only be wrong if he was lying about his opinion (which you have no way to tell). Another example, if you only meant nude cutscenes, add that to your answer so that it's clear, because it currently does not say that. | |
| Aug 29, 2019 at 7:24 | comment | added | user135338 |
@senpai, you are wrong. The community (exactly like here in Arqade) judging is way more fair, because developer only care about regulations (ratings, etc.) You will see a huge difference between two games tagged with [nudity] depending on its position. Steam was just an example, if you know another way to determine how adult is a game marked as adult, feel free to share. I thought I am on a right track, but with those comments I feel pervert now.
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| Aug 29, 2019 at 7:17 | comment | added | user135338 | @FoxMcCloud, you are wrong. It would be unfair to ban whole Witcher for nude cutscenes (I only mean nude cutscenes, thought that was obvious from question topic, seems not to @JMac). The game is a whole lot more than just that. However, exactly those topics should be banned, no one should be allowed to post uncensored screenshot from cutscene and ask question "why her boobs are so small" (I mean such question, also based on topic). Many big games have such piquant parts, e.g. Mass Effect. I was only against those. | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | childe | Steam tags are a terrible metric because they are user defined, not publisher defined. In fact, the Witcher 3 store page description still contains the following description: "The developers describe the content like this: This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Nudity or Sexual Content, General Mature Content" | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | JMac | Your final paragraph also seems to be an assumption based off steam tags, which isn't a good metric. I disagree with the entire premise of it. Even if there game were primarily about nudity, it doesn't inherently make any information about the game not valuable. Just because you personally don't want to discuss them or see anything about them, doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed on the site. Not to say it should be allowed; just that those aren't good reasons. I don't like minecraft questions, and I really don't want to see them here; but policy shouldn't reflect my personal feelings. | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 19:02 | comment | added | JMac | Yeah, I also don't think steam tags would be a good method for determining what counts as "adult" and what doesn't. "But as soon as you start posting screenshots of cutscenes and asking stupid questions (because you can ask only stupid question about those) - you are stepping the line." I definitely disagree with that quote. I don't see why a screenshot of a cutscene would inherently make a question "stupid". There are plenty of things in cutscenes which could make up part of a legitimate question here. | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 18:36 | comment | added | FoxMcCloud | I don't think we should categorize and allow/ban games based on which tag is first on Steam. I also don't like the idea of picking certain parts of a game that are off limits. I think every game should either be okay or banned. | |
| Aug 28, 2019 at 14:57 | history | answered | user135338 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |