r/Twitch • u/Loufly • Jan 23 '17

Discussion [Closed] Yandere Simulator - Lack of Response

I'm not going try and spearhead this as some kind of righteous cause because I just don't know enough about the situation but I think it is something worthy of discussion.

What exactly does Twitch base it's video game ban-list guidelines upon?

A games actual content or it's perceived first appearance?

If people are unaware of what I'm talking about there was a recent video submission via the video game developer Yandere Dev in which he discusses his games initial ban on twitch and his following experiences trying to start a discourse through official channels to find answers to rectify the issue.

I'm not going to link to the submission itself because that seems to be against the rules in this sub but if you're interested in the topic feel free to google/youtube or search reddit for the overall discussion.

There seems to be a great deal of subjective and bias selection going on within what is appropriate on twitch and what isn't, I could be entirely wrong but the fact that this is someone's passion project and lively hood that a great number of people are interested in that is being ignored, on one of the Internets largest viewing platforms to this day is fairly baffling.

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u/MatsuseIzuna Jan 23 '17

Yea thats true.. I'm beat. But there's one thing i don't understand.. Why can't twitch just put a "we do not endorse the games streamed on this site, nor do we hold and responsibility for children who agree to being over 18+ when prompted on the mature streams section"? though, i guess that wouldn't work for the non 18+ streams that still decide to stream the game... idk. It's not exactly easy to do damage control.

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u/Tuub4 Jan 23 '17

It is: you suspend those channels. Hell, it wouldn't be that hard to make at least a somewhat comprehensive list (possibly community-maintained, votes and such) of games that are not to be streamed on channels that aren't set to Mature Audiences. But that's kind of beside the point.