Tidligere på ugen dukkede endnu et kontroversielt spil op på Steam ved navn Rape Day, som kommer som endnu et eksempel på stødende spil der ankommer på Valves platform som følge af manglende restriktioner og kuration. Mange var forargede over at Valve ville lade et spil der angiveligvis simulerer voldtægte af mindreårige på deres platform, men det viser det sig så nu at så langt går de dog alligevel ikke.
Valve har nu afsløret via et nyt blogindlæg, at Rape Day ikke vil blive distribueret via Steam.
"Today we've decided not to distribute this game on Steam. Given our previous communication around Who Gets To Be On The Steam Store?, we think this decision warrants further explanation."
"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. We then have to make a judgment call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think 'Rape Day' poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on Steam."
"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."
Valve har nægtet Rape Day adgang til Steam, men siger ikke noget om at ændre deres notorisk åbne retningslinjer for hvilket slags indhold der kan sælges på platformen.