MangaGamer’s all-ages version of visual novel Bokuten – Why I Became an Angel was expunged from Steam for supposedly containing leftover adult content involving under-age characters that was “hidden”, though MangaGamer has expressed that this is not the case and that there is no adult content in the title whatsoever.
Bokuten – Why I Became an Angel, which launched on Steam in a sex-less all-ages form eight months ago, was recently kicked off the platform, with developers saying they supposedly never received an explanation why and that they had implemented no new content since its initial launch:
While some believed this to be another instance of Steam attacking eroge and games for having under-age characters (despite being all-ages) or anime-style aesthetics as per their usual taste policing, an official response from Valve’s Vice President Doug Lombardi alleged that the game still had adult content hidden away and that an external patch was used to “activate it”:
When reached for comment, MangaGamer’s PR Director John Pickett told the Daily Dot that the publisher received an email from Steam several hours after Bokuten was removed from Steam. The representative with Steam responsible for the ban claimed MangaGamer had “added sexual content” to the game “that would not have passed our content review process,” according to Pickett. Pickett refuted this claim by stressing that no material was added to the game since its release on Dec. 19, 2019.
After contacting Valve for comment, Valve’s Vice President of Marketing Doug Lombardi said Bokuten was removed after discovering an external patch that activated adult scenes with under-age characters. “In our initial content review, we missed content hidden in the game’s depot that features adult content with under-age characters,” Lombardi told the Daily Dot. “While not accessible in the game itself without an externally acquired patch, we were distributing that content depot through Steam, therefor[e] the game would not have passed our content review. We’ve notified the developer, and improved our content review process to avoid this in the future.”
John Pickett, MangaGamer’s PR director, clarified however that consumers looking to restore the game’s sex scenes would have to add the adult material back in externally, emphasizing that none of this adult content was “hidden” in the game:
Pickett called Lombardi’s statement “incorrect,” as Bokuten’s adult material must be added externally, which he compared to downloading an adult Skyrim mod. “We took painstaking care to ensure that there was no adult content in the all-ages edition distributed on Steam and Discord [Store]. There is mature content befitting a mature title, but there is no adult content in the build provided by Steam,” Pickett said. “Our company does offer an adult-patch, and adult content is contained in the patch available solely on our own website and our servers. No adult content is distributed through Steam servers for Bokuten.”
Pickett also denied that the game’s 18+ patch activated scenes involving under-age characters engaging in sexual acts. He argued Lombardi’s allegation was “a serious claim,” albeit “not the first time Valve has made such as false claim, as demonstrated with The Expression: Amrilato.”
As Twitter denizens have pointed out, the sheer size of the adult patch available on MangaGamer further supports this perspective:
Whether or not Bokuten – Why I Became an Angel will be reinstated on Steam is currently not clear.
so tired of sjw bullshit…
Ironic considering the site you are on took a knee to them and is compromised
probably not sjw’s they’re all good with shagging kids, probably Christians, though they’re pretty cool with shagging kids. Wonder if they’re gonna ban skyrim due to all the nude patches for that?
Boo fucking hoo. Not like you were gonna play the game anyway.
I agree this comment is by a retard who fails to understand censorship… but why is there no option to display it?
Depends.
I also didnt read any light novel, amazon’s ban make me read no game no life from bookwalker.
Very true but others were so yea
Steam is becoming more and more cancerous with each passing day
America are becoming cancerous each passing day:
censoring foreing media just like china
blocking foreigner sites like tiktok just like china
ok the latter sounds fair because tiktok is chinese, but i dont think doing similar things like china is a good way.
Tiktok is CCP spyware. It’s designed to collect intel and personal info on foreigners.
Everything that isnt open sorce or free/libre software is spyware, and thats not even taking into account blackbox firmware and hardware fuckery that governments force companies to do.
twitter/FB also get your info.
But it’s made by a Murican is it’s ok.
Yeah exactly, until I see them operate the same way as those totalitarian regimes they are no better, always remember to call out ZOG/US and their hypocrites
Ok pooh-doggie-lover
You forgot bat and pangolin, not to mention tiger balls and stuff…
Why not post it on GOG. Though i don’t know how they treat the fake children part there, but they can probably post the all ages version there and people could get the adult patch from mangagamer.
At least maidens of michael are on GOG and you can use the adult patch from mangagamer there.
Which on steam they only have remembering how we met from the a kiss for the petals series on steam and denied the maidens of michael VN on steam probably for the same reason even though they don’t look like small children.
Maidens of Michael at least has some tastefull art lol. Still didn’t read it through fully.
If Bokuten does come to GOG it can be bought with a paysafecard also, don’t think i could buy the game on mangagamer since i don’t have a credit card still.
But not like i am currently interested in Bokuten.
SJW FUCKTARDS CAN ALL DIE
A redditor found 3 leftover 18+ CGs in the steam version of bokuten, so mangagamer made a mistake and left it in there. Hopefully once they remove it steam will reinstate it.
Pics or it didnt happen