Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch
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Horses is proving to be something of a surprise hit, at least on the storefronts where you can still buy it.

Currently, only GOG and Itch are still selling this game.

EDIT: It seems the game has returned to Humble Bundle.

  • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    4 hours ago

    The only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.

    You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.

    The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.

    Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      3 hours ago

      the slippery slope starts somewhere.

      You know slippery slope is a fallacy right? The “slippery slope” can also stop anywhere.

      • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        3 hours ago

        I regret my short hand of “slippery slope” but it’s not a coincidence that less than 6 months ago payment processors used their influence to get a game pulled from steam and now all of a sudden steam is self censoring based on content.

        Whatever the non-fallacious version of “there’s an escalating pattern here” is what’s happening.

        Go ahead and read up https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/why-steam-banned-adult-games

            • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              2 hours ago

              You claimed Steam banned this because of the payment processors. The same payment processors being used by stores that didn’t ban this. Seems a relevant point to the discussion we are having.

              • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                1 hour ago

                I’M not claiming steam pulled it due to pressure from payment processors, VALVE reported it. You’d know that if you read the article I posted.

                If you want to participate in the discussion you have to do the reading.

                • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
                  1·
                  6 minutes ago

                  The article from July explains why Steam banned this game last month, despite Itch (which stopped selling certain games due to the payment processors) is selling it?

                  Who is this article writer that can see 4 months into the future?!