'We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.' After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think 'Rape Day' poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on Steam. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. 'Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary-we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. The full statement relates back to Valve's decision last year to stop policing what should be on Steam.
Valve has announced the removal of Desk Plant's Rape Day from Steam, saying that although the platform respects 'developers’ desire to express themselves.this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.' The controversial title has been removed from Steam 'after significant fact-finding and discussion' from Valve.
