GOG sees assembly pressure from payments processors Steam And another PC Storefronts as a problem to preserve the game, and in a recent interview he said the company official. The note offers a wider view of the Wave of Steam censorship, which has caused significant controversy in recent months.
In July 2025, Steam removed hundreds of adult games from the offer of digital stores. Valve quoted pressure from payment processors as the only reason to move. Development has triggered a significant online will, focused on payment processors and collective shout, an Australian activist group that received credit for their lobbying and condemned targeted games as forms of “sexual”.
Payment processor censorship is “the problem of maintaining the game,” says GOG
In a recent interview with the West, Gog Senior PR Piotr Gnyp, he called the current compression of the “Game Protection problem”, noted that any title for any reason is potentially lost for any reason. “It's particularly worrying when games potentially disappear due to external pressure,” Gnap said. The perspective of this kind of nature conservationist has not precisely noticed the recent discourse about this matter, but it is very consistent with the wider GOG mission to preserve the “old” games – an idea that inspired its original name before taking over the abbreviation.
While the efforts for censorship have influenced both Steam and Itch.io in recent months, GOG has been resistant to such factors, last but not least, because it is a curator's showcase rather than a free platform. According to GNNYP, the company performs selections based on quality and relevance, but also seeks those that are in line with its “values and audiences”. Although not everyone wants a curator to be able to handle the platform for them, Gog's Pitch is convincing because they focus on downloading without DRM and offline installer. This means that even if the company was to switch from business, all previously purchased games would remain playable if they were already withdrawn.
Gnyp also emphasizes that GOG, Steam and all other digital shop windows are bound by laws in many countries they run. Although these laws may not always be consistent, they are not central to the censorship wave of 2025, at least not directly.
It is particularly worrying when games potentially disappear due to external pressure.
In response to the recent wave of discarding steam games, several petitions against censorship emerged. However, not the only title that was biased in the Ban Wave has not returned to Valve's Storefront since mid -September 2025. Most remain completely unavailable to buy. Unusual, as this removal can be, Gnyp says that the elimination is “impossible to avoid completely”.
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