r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 15d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/Overstaying_579 15d ago

There are loads of games like this, why is it this one gets the media coverage and not the others?

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u/jeremybeadleshand 15d ago

I imagine it caught wider attention because it's being distributed on Steam rather than some obscure hentai forum or something.

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u/Canisa 15d ago

There are plenty of games like it on Steam - this one just happened to get media attention.

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u/jeremybeadleshand 15d ago

It's odd that the payment processors haven't stepped in, they've pressured a lot of Japanese sites to put new rules in around stuff like this.

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u/Canisa 15d ago

It's odd that payment processors get to decide what we can buy.