MLA and Steam

You may have noticed for while that the MLA page on Steam is gone. For a long time I did not say anything about this, but now I have time to poke a little :)

Steam does not want to publish the game on their site. At all. And nothing can be done with this. The game did not pass the test and moderators banned the app slot. At first I thought it was some kind of mistake, I wrote a letter, but support refuses to have any dialogue. To every one of my messages, they answer me with the same phrase.

At first, they simply did not want to answer me and simply closed my appeal without any answer. I wrote another appeal with the question, can I make changes to the game, to which I was told that I can.

I paid another $100 for another app slot and it was banned in the same way without any verification. This can be understood by the fact that the "check" lasted only 4 days, instead of the usual 4 weeks, and despite the fact that we made all the changes and removed everything that could cause associations with the "school", however, the game was banned with exactly same wording.

To be honest, I feel cheated. We were not just denied publishing the game. Both app slots banned us, for which we paid $100 each. They could simply refuse to publish MLA, and we could release something else on these slots (this is possible), but they just banned them. Even after they themselves said that we can make changes to the game, they did not check anything, they just banned the slot immediately, i.e. just stole our money.

I live in, probably, not the most peaceful / rich place, but at the same time I can’t remember that I have ever been deceived for such an amount. It's funny that of all the possible options, it turned out to be Steam. An even more nasty circumstance is that someone earned this money and donated to us to develop the game, so that Steam just stole it.

At the moment, there is a huge amount of games *with too young girls* on Steam... I mean not “we think your college is a school, so we don’t want...”, but porn with girls which looks aren’t even 14, but of course the text is more 1000 years (The simplest example is Nekopara). But probably Steam considers this to be acceptable. At least more acceptable than a college that appeared to a reviewer to resemble a high school.

After all this story, I have a wild desire to find all the pedophile games in Steam and send this information to the right place for it to become public, but I think this will have a bad effect on the entire game industry of our favorite genre.