I've been developing a game for a good while. In this game, players can create characters, join private rooms with room codes and in these private rooms, other players can see the pictures players uploaded.
Game will be published on Steam. I'm using Firebase Storage to handle these pictures, fetch them when necessary and display it to everyone in the room.
My question is, how does an indie developer protect itself from users potentially uploading illegal content? Is this a general concern or am I just overthinking it? Will ToS be enough? I'm aware that lawyer should be a better place to ask but this thought alone stunted my release plan.
My "solutions" was:
- Deleting the images after the room/session ends
- Heavy moderation on uploaded pictures in the Firebase Storage
- Clear ToS indicating uploaded pictures are users responsibility
- Reporting system in the rooms (even though they are private, meaning players in the room will know each other %99 of the time)
I'd love to learn what are the general practices and these solutions are enough or not and what kind of trouble I can get into. I feel like I'm overthinking it but it feels like a real problem.
