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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valvโ€ฆ

#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Entirely reinforcing the thesis that VISA and Mastercard are the biggest agents for exporting american puritanism internationally.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Steam could have chosen to sell such games only via wallet balance / gift cards, sidestepping any concerns payment operators had. That they have instead had to remove them entirely shows massive overreach from these payment orgs.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

While I will never be a customer of those types of games, I believe you should let people do what they want, especially when its their own money.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I wonder as the payment processors shutdown those games, if the payment processors will refund the buyers or if the just got robbed
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I don't like this. Now is incest games " because everyone is against that" and then they'll start attacking LGBTQ+ games just because they can.

Fuck'em, as someone has said, they should start their own payment process

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@nazokiyoubinbou This happens literally *anywhere*. If the store takes money, they have to follow the processor rules. This is not a Valve issue, it's a payment processor issue.

Marking this down specifically against Valve is not the way to go.

@Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

So now they're coming for Valve. It's that alliance of fundamentalist Christians and online payment providers that has been harassing all kinds of social web platforms, pressuring them to either forbid their users from publishing any nudity and anything vaguely sexual or else face the shutdown of their cash flow.
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@nazokiyoubinbou GOG, itch, Patreon and so on all have to deal with the exact same issues. This is a fact.
@Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@nazokiyoubinbou Friendly reminder that corporate America can, will, and have gone scorched earth when thereโ€™s something they value higher than profits.

For example Walmart shutting down whole stores simply to stop unionization (and their evil propaganda they run for their poor employees).

Canโ€™t do business without banking:(

@Nazo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

It has long been curious to me how sex (or even involved romantic relationships) are beyond the pale in video games but ultraviolence is the accepted central premise of the game.

Imagine an Assassinโ€™s Creed where the several thousand body count referred to the number of satisfied sexual partners rather than decapitated guards.

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