It's fun when we get to marry our political fun with our love of games. This is a gaming forum after all.

Steam has decided to allow pretty much anything in the steam store and not censor games considered offensive.
In a blog post they said -

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082

Of course this has made the regressive left super pissed off. There has been, since gamergate, a huge swing towards the regressive left among gaming journalists. A slew of articles in response to this had a negative response to this blog post.
https://steamed.kotaku.com/steams-irresponsible-hands-off-policy-is-proof-that-val-1826654709
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/-steams-half-assed-approach-to-content-moderation-will-continue-antagonizng-indie-developers

etc.

Recent controversial games have included 'Active shooter', a game where you get to play a school shooter or the SWAT officer trying to stop him, and 'Gay World', a game where LGBT people have taken over the world and are eradicating straight people... or something.

To be fair this isn't really a recent development. Steam generally don't act until controversy becomes so loud that they have to - but an explicit confirmation of their hesitance to remove games simply because they are found 'offensive' by some people is encouraging. After all pretty much every game seems to have someone, somewhere, complaining that it is racist, homophobic, misogynist, doesn't have enough black people, treats black people badly, doesn't have any transgender people etc. A game is a fucking game. These gaming journalists who have been making the argument for decades that violent video games don't make violent people are now perfectly happy to argue that games they think are racist or misogynist might make people racist or misogynist.

If you find a game offensive then... don't play it if you can't handle it. It's not hard to look up a game before you buy to see if it's suitable for you.

mass murder simulators are alright but don't you fucking dare make a game that we think is trolling

The fuck else is any shooter mate? They're all mass murder simulators.

Id probably boycott that game but glad they didnt go full sjw

It's obviously a joke about their policy statement but expect the discretion on the trolling to be their safety net going forward

Well clearly. They're a company after all and have to protect themselves if something receives so much outcry as to hurt their business.

If you want a REALLY offensive game, try Postal 2. Its amazeballs

thus this is not much more than a honey dicking policy and statement

Good stuff coming in this thread, i feel it.

Lol. Loved Postal. Haven't played 2.

Dunno if I'm really up for that sort of game nowadays though. I'd get a couple of laughs but probably wouldn't play it enough to warrant purchasing.