Steam Removes 'Domina' After Dev Includes Transphobic Rant Namedropping Keffals In Game's Patch Notes
To say that patch 1.3.25 of the indie gladiator sim Domina did little to improve players' experiences with the video game would be an understatement. In fact, it did quite the opposite, as it instead caused Steam to remove the game from the storefront entirely.
Earlier this morning, Valve's gaming hub removed Domina from the platform after the developer included a transphobic rant namedropping YouTuber and Twitch streamer Keffals in the patch notes for the game's latest update. The controversial rant can be read below in its entirety:
deadname: domina. Please don’t mention it any more. We only mention it here to say: don’t mention it any more. It’s totally normal to change the sex of a video game and NOT CONFUSING TO ANYBODY. Please do not be a bigot. If you are confused, please simply stop being confused and remember that DOMINA doesn’t exist and never did, but DOMINUS does exist, and always has, you just didn’t know you were playing a man, who was dressed as a woman, but now that we reveal it to you, you have NO RIGHT to feel deceived, the same way the poor drunk dudes who transvestites like Keffals had sexual intercourse with, without disclosing that they were a man, have no right to feel wronged and you’re a bigot for being confused or even mentioning something like that happening, let alone having an opinion about it.
Straight from the source, they're finally removing Domina / Dominus from Steam. Long overdue, if only because I imagine it really pisses the dev off that he can no longer rant in patch notes about the evils of transgenderness or how he has beef with @keffals or whatever. pic.twitter.com/3GAicbc8Ib
— OutlanderDev (@BiospaceDev) September 2, 2022
This was, apparently, the final straw for Valve, which on two previous occasions had issues with the Domina dev treating his game's patch notes as a personal soapbox for things unrelated to the title.
In March earlier this year, the game made headlines after the developer went on an anti-mask rant that implied men wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 were afraid of getting laid. In May 2021, he also included a rant in the game's patch notes about men who watch too much porn.
Valve cited the targeting of another individual as its reason to cease its business relationship with the Domina dev, noting that he had been warned about such behavior in the past.
Keffals has notably been at the center of a month-long campaign against lolcow gossip site Kiwi Farms after she has been swatted and doxxed multiple times in the past month. She has continuously argued and compiled alleged evidence that members of Kiwi Farms are purportedly responsible for the attacks and has pressured the service Cloudflare, which provides DDoS protection to Kiwi Farms, to drop the site from their list of clients.
On Wednesday, the day of the Domina dev's rant, Cloudflare announced it would not drop Kiwi Farms, using the argument, "Just as the telephone company doesn’t terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded in consultation with politicians, policy makers, and experts that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy."
In response to the Domina dev story, Keffals tweeted, "Bro, keep me out of your midlife crisis."
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