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NEWS: Sekai Project's Digital Steam Release of Rewrite+ Visual Novel Features Content Changes

Its really telling that this is where we're at now with steam and VNs though, its such a crapshoot as to what they will consider acceptable versus unacceptable. I can think of dozens of games off the top of my head that featured way worse than the CGs that were edited out

Without going in to too much detail due to signed agreements, when a build is submitted to Steam it gets reviewed by Valve. If they find content that goes against their policies, there is a high possibility of the build being banned with no way to appeal. Other times, they will let you make adjustments and resubmit a build but from our experience it's still more likely the build will get banned right away. Other developers and publishers might have had similar or not so similar experiences too.

09jcg wrote:

Its really telling that this is where we're at now with steam and VNs though, its such a crapshoot as to what they will consider acceptable versus unacceptable. I can think of dozens of games off the top of my head that featured way worse than the CGs that were edited out

Crapshoot is right. In a followup post on the Kickstarter, Sekai Project said that they couldn't risk Valve perma-banning the game based on their one shot at a review:

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Without going in to too much detail due to signed agreements, when a build is submitted to Steam it gets reviewed by Valve. If they find content that goes against their policies, there is a high possibility of the build being banned with no way to appeal. Other times, they will let you make adjustments and resubmit a build but from our experience it's still more likely the build will get banned right away. Other developers and publishers might have had similar or not so similar experiences too.

invalidname wrote:

09jcg wrote: Its really telling that this is where we're at now with steam and VNs though, its such a crapshoot as to what they will consider acceptable versus unacceptable. I can think of dozens of games off the top of my head that featured way worse than the CGs that were edited out Crapshoot is right. In a followup post on the Kickstarter, Sekai Project said that they couldn't risk Valve perma-banning the game based on their one shot at a review: Quote: Without going in to too much detail due to signed agreements, when a build is submitted to Steam it gets reviewed by Valve. If they find content that goes against their policies, there is a high possibility of the build being banned with no way to appeal. Other times, they will let you make adjustments and resubmit a build but from our experience it's still more likely the build will get banned right away. Other developers and publishers might have had similar or not so similar experiences too.

It should be noted that the decision to do this was also influenced by Amatsutsumi failing its one chance, despite Sekai investing resources creating a version specifically for Steam. So it makes sense why they're cautious.

I suppose the best way to handle Steam may well be what Shiravune is doing. Submit everything to Steam and half of the stuff like Meteor World Actor will randomly be rejected for no discernable reason, but half of the stuff will randomly be allowed for no discernable reason, like Saimin Gakushuu. Since there's no real way to figure out what is and isn't allowed, try everything but expect nothing and always have a back up plan.