Valve Corporation, creator of the popular online games platform Steam, revealed its long-awaited program to ban users with anime profile pictures. These users are to receive Valve Anti-Anime bans (VAA bans for short) which will prevent them from accessing any official Valve servers. Many of the most popular multiplayer games on Steam, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, run their online matchmaking exclusively through official Valve servers. Therefore, Valve has predicted that the migration of weeaboos away from these games may result in upwards of a 15% drop in active Steam users.
Public reception of the Valve’s new system has been mixed. Steam’s user base is largely concerned with the system’s ability to tell the difference between pictures from anime and those from shows like Avatar: the Last Airbender and RWBY, which are not and have never been anime. Furthermore, a rather sizable minority of Steam users have made clear that they do not believe that Pokemon pictures should get users banned as Pokemon is “barely an anime anyway,” as one user describes.
The largest outcry against Valve’s new policy has not been from Steam’s users, but rather from Riot Games, creator and publisher of League of Legends. Anime Maru sat down for a short interview with designer Ryan “Morello” Scott to ask him why his company was so against Valve’s new policy.
“Valve has been trying to ruin us ever since we refused to make Ricochet 2 for them,” said Morello. “The design of this program is no different in that it is clearly meant to migrate weebs from their games to League [of Legends], thereby ruining our great community. I am sure they will argue that players can play any game they wish, but I mean what else are they going to play for their online fix, Starcraft? Yeah, right. That game is more dead than our solo matchmaking.”
so why were Nekopara , Clannad , … still being brought on steam ????? Don’t allow us to use anime avatars but still make us wanna like them :)))
M-My Cory in the house avatar!!!
FUCKING VIETNAM LMAO
go suck a dick bigot
dude wtf, why do you hate us vietnamese
get a life lol
It’s just a park bro.
selling anime games on steam is fine but not using anime avatars
pretty sure this is a satire website lol
do me a favor
go **** yourself
Guys this article is obviously a joke, chill
OMG Valve don´t know what to do xD
steam is fully fixed on windows 10 so valve does this shit
HAHAHHAHAH you want to tell me that weebs destroy your community but not the 10 year olds who play dota and LoL . You are insane
the articleis full of shit LMAO
People with anime avatars believeing this is real.
Goes to show how retarded weebs really are.
Thanks for the laugh, autists.
u can buy on steam: RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, Pirate Warriors 3, One Piece Burning Blood, a lot of fucking Naruto games but u cant use anime profile pictures OK XD
really?
but you will found plenty anime character avatars from “Official Game Avatars” Which is steam feature.
“League [of Legends], thereby ruining our great community” I played LOL and was the worst gamming community I ever saw… and saddly that community now plays Rocket League on Steam ruinning the GREAT COMMUNITY of Rocket League. STFU RIOT and STFU STEAM VALVE WTV and STFU NERDS!
This comment section really is pure cancer. I’m not sure why I expected weebs to understand a joke, though. I mean, come on – VAA? Seriously?
Everyone that believes this deserves to be shot.
poor web for a poor anamu XD right
lmao this has to be fake why would a company waste money and resources for something so stupid?
Fucking gaymers
Total bullshit. This article is a fabrication.
No i will not let that be i will kill people……………. i think I DONT KNOW!!! I NEED ANIME ITS MY SALVATION!!!
no source, fake
If this is joke, I would love to blow your house m8
Funny enough idea though in today’s PC culture Valve would earn itself a mighty reaming from Asians for being anti-Japan and racist if they did that.
ignore this pic. you are battling against dota 2 , try to use ur common sense . who among the people of asia would like to use that pic in the legal of age except gay coz they act like a girl but maybe the younger more 10 years of age below will use it coz they love cartoons. try to ask the social medias like facebook, twitter and etc. many people is using that shit pic now as their profile not all. why did you not attack them also coz some of them uses ur pic. instead of attacking the fast growing community in steam.