Two weeks is ancient, when it comes to stuff like this, in my opinion.

The thing is, the article doesn’t make it clear, that this is about technically SFW games, that add NSFW content later down the line.

I don’t know if that’s a new policy because of the recent issues or if it was always a policy, just not enforced.

This is an old article BTW, and it’s apparently not really true? Or at least different than what the article makes it seem.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2343900/view/539991294395549714?l=english

Rumors are not facts

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’m sure you’ve all heard the rumors that Steam doesn’t allow NSFW games to release free updates, only paid DLCs.

This is simply not true.

Since our game’s release, we’ve rolled out numerous free updates, with the latest major content update dropping just three days ago.

Steam hasn’t officially changed its policies, and there’s no rule in the Terms of Service supporting this claim.

These rumors stem from a handful of vague NSFW game developer announcements with no solid backing.

We will continue to release free updates in the future.

Have a great day!

(I can’t view the link myself, because of a regional block, so I’m trusting another comment, that the quote I copied is correct.)

The article talks about games that are marked adult-only with warnings, but apparently the problem is only with games that don’t have any NSFW content yet, so they are technically SFW, and they want to add it through updates or patches. Games that already have NSFW content will be able to receive patches as normal, and add more.

And since then it’s back again with Dragonflight, The War Within, going into Midnight.

WoW probably will never die.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

The only thing that looks a bit weird is that the top menu bar is wider than the rest of the page.

I have never used the side menu, so I don’t care that it’s gone, and have never thought the store pages should fill the whole screen, so I’m fine with the new look.

I believe you’re vastly overstating the importance of this game and franchise. As I said, I think it’s a terrible series of games (and I’ve played them up to CS3), so there’s absolutely some bias here.

Also, what do other people’s reviews have anything to do with how impactful or important something is to the medium? Does this mean that the Hentai game Mirror with ~96% positive, 85k+ reviews on Steam is even more significant than Trails?

And if you look at modern RPGs built around serialized storytelling and grounded politics—Disco Elysium, Baldur’s Gate 3, even the way Persona 5 structures its arcs—you can see Falcom’s fingerprints everywhere.

Please show me where those fingerprints are, because I don’t see them.

Your only arguments for your statement in this thread are, that there are a lot of Trails games, and that the games are all connected. Comparing this to FF7 seems like a real stretch.

If these games are so important, how about some examples of how they influenced gaming and their impact, either to devs or gamers.

BTW I think the Trails series is garbage and has only one good game in it.

That’s what I was thinking myself.

Nintendo might have still tried something, even with just the mod chips, just to try and strongarm someone into submission. However, distributing the games just seems incredibly dumb to me, and might be the main reason they were able to get this settlement.