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Valve says it will allow 'everything' on Steam as long as it isn't illegal or 'trolling By Andrew Webster | Jun 8, 2018, 3:13pm EDT fSHARE Illustration by Alex Castro/ The Verge After a few weeks of controversy_which included a pulled game about school shootings and confusion over the place of sexually explicit games on the platform-Valve has decided to change its policies on what games are allowed on Steam. Its solution? Almost anything goes "We ended up going back to one of the principles in the forefront of our minds when we started Steam and more recently as we worked on Steam Direct to open up the Store to many more developers: Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this," the company explained in a bl st toda youre a player, we shouldnt be choosing for you"VALVE SHOULDN'T BE THE ONES developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content DECIDING THIS what content you can or can't buy. If you're a you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable." The company goes on to say that it currently employs curators to check the content of potential Steam games, but in the future, that level of curation won't be in place. Instead, all games will be allowed on Steam, "except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling," Valve explains. While it's not clear what constitutes trolling in the post, Valve previously described the game Active Shooter as a "troll" when it removed it from Steam

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