Koikatsu Party questions

A lot of adult games, and eventually all will be blocked or pulled for German customers on Steam. This has nothing to do with Valve, but Germany itself finding the age-verification systems in place on Steam not acceptable.

I wouldn't expect them to ever return either unless something changes in Germany, so complain to the German government. Valve isn't going to rework the entire age verification process to accommodate the unreasonable. Many countries have hard bans on porn that isn't guarded by strict age-verification systems like having Identification Cards on file, credit score ratings, human review of such identification, etc.

No one wants that, and Valve isn't going to do that. So these items are just region locked and or removed from those countries on Steam.

The game isn't going to disappear from your library on Steam. Just expect that more and more games are going to be region locked and blocked in Germany.



Why would Steam be reliable for Adult games? Is Steam an adult game publisher? No. They have far more to lose. The rules are pretty simple, and it's basically that they don't want anything that could be considered grey area on the store, or anything that has real life models on the store. That's pretty much it.

I wouldn't ever expect Valve to go out and fight for this kind of content though... Why would they? If they think something can do serious damage to them, they're not going to ship it. Steam is also global, and must follow every countries laws for that kind of thing. Which is why we see the Germany complaints. Those people need to complain to their government and not Valve.

As for the DRM comments, I'll say that usually anything that is DRM free somewhere else is also DRM free on Steam. There's thousands of DRM free games on Steam. All these adult games that release on Steam are DRM free, require no log in, and are free to do whatever you want with. Steam itself isn't a DRM; the optional DRM is part of Steamworks. The Steam Store itself is nothing more than a store and distribution platform. No different from you have an account here on FAKKU to purchase and download, except that there's a client you have installed for purchasing and distributing on Steam.

I do encourage not buying on Steam though, and instead through FAKKU, Mangagamer, JAST USA, etc, because they're the ones who are responsible for the licensing of the titles. Japanese studios self publishing on Steam is not a good thing (like what Illusion did with Koikatsu). For one, there's no one holding them accountable for the English translation except for the studio themselves. Maybe it's good or maybe it's not. Two, a Japanese company self publishing still has to follow Japanese law. So that means forced mosaics.

The reality is that these companies should be working with a FAKKU, Mangagamer, etc, so the game can be properly localized and distributed for Western audiences. Mosaics is not a proper Western release, and never is okay. That is the number one reason for me not buying something. Point is you should be supporting the people who fight for this industry and content, and that's not Steam.

Well, you certainly don't sound like you know what you're talking about, and clearly you're very sensitive here... You explicitly implied in your post that Steam was a DRM, and that all these adult games that are here on both FAKKU and STEAM are DRM free here but not on the other, and that would be WRONG. My account dates back to 2004 also, so don't act like you're special. Not that that means anything, because ignorance happens to all ages. You state inaccurate information, you should expect it to be corrected and or clarified.


Okay, and? Does that dispute what I said? Lol, no. Quality of the game doesn't matter, there's still plenty of DRM free games on Steam, and some high quality, large budget titles also. A general rule of thumb is if they're available on GOG, the Steam version is also DRM free.

We're talking about the games here on FAKKU also, and not AAA budget games. Nice job moving the goal posts there... Was that to make you sound like you know what you're talking about? Dunno why you do that, because it just looks bad! Fact is the same H-games you can buy here on FAKKU and Steam are DRM free on both.


Educating someone is never unnecessary.


Steam is a global platform. They MUST abide by the laws and restrictions Germany has in place on certain types of content. Right now Steam's age verification system is not acceptable by German government. So blocking and region locking will continue to happen until something changes. There's already been plenty of reports of more and more games disappearing from the German store. You've seen it yourself.

But again, any game you've already bought isn't going to disappear from your library. So you shouldn't worry about that. Just expect more games to get pulled and or blocked from the store in the future on Steam. Luckily there's other stores out there to buy from, like the one we're on right now.

Any reason it's still censored? Honey Select isn't.