So now that this smug fatty got bent over then chucked and cucked by the payment processor companies, that means some video games are going to get killed or not released at all on the platform because they don't fit the current "narrative."

What's the likelihood of alternatives emerging to compete against steam for game developers to release their games on?

The Steam that we once used to know is practically dead at this point. This will stifle the rise of indie game development and kill games further.

>>105970781 (OP)
Can I get some more background info on what the fuck happened, chief?

>>105970781 (OP)
>What's the likelihood of alternatives emerging to compete against steam for game developers to release their games on?
There is one
Piratebay

>>105970781 (OP)
Unless Gaben is willing to accept crypto payments at some point (thus removing the absolute dependency on visa, Mastercard) this’ll just keep happening :/ especially cause he isn’t playing “nice” with public equity markets (for good reason).

>>105970785
A radfem christian group (dead serious) that has been known to somehow sic payment processors on "icky" stuff pulled one over on steam, and the payment processors got pissed at gabe for allowing porn on the platform, and a ton of games were or are being removed.

People are pissed that christcucks are dictating shit like this, and are worried their going to go after other things, since apparently the bitch leading the christcuck group has the ear of someone major at one of these payment processors.

>>105970785
The quick rundown is the payment processing companies are bullying steam to do whatever they want now and Gabe is being a little baby back bitch about it instead of standing up for himself.
>inb4 "it's coomer games"
Nah this is how it starts before it gets worse.

Steam is going to get released for the M-Apple chips without Rosetta.
GG Lord Gaben

>>105970838
Why do payment processing companies even care?

>>105970838
Forget about the christ cucks, it's the payment processor companies doing it. The OF skanks tried to blame the christ cucks when the payment processor companies cracked down on OF for crap when it was really the payment processor companies flexing that they actually run things and can turn things off whenever and bully as the middle man.

>>105970865
Same reason why the bankers won't give your company access to cheap loans if you don't wokeify your company, it's about control.

>>105970781 (OP)
0%, the same as the likelihood of a serious competitor to YouTube because it doesn’t allow porn or gore.
Anything started with the premise of “X but uncensored” is in all cases doomed to failure, because the kind of people that post the kind of things that get censored are the bottom of the barrel of subhumanity. This means both increased costs in meeting legal minimums for moderation and driving away all normal people with the toxicity and bad PR.

>>105970865
They don't care about the christ cucks that's why OF is still around. The point is to flex and exercise their power as middle men on all the platforms they operate on to extend their control. The payment processing companies are practically a third party extension to banking companies and this is just more ways for them to own and influence everything.

You have room temperature IQ if you think these retards won't go after any storefront that dares to sell what they deem to be bad content. If there's no payment method, there's no storefront. Simple as.

>>105970865
Because Visa got sued by some people that regretted their boyfriends uploading their sex tapes to Pornhub.

>>105970891
Yeah but people actually DID go to other platforms that did have more freespeech, not for the gore and all that other crap but to express the obvious and their voices that was going against "the current narrative" and getting supressed on YouTube. Albeit it included even crappy china spy/propaganda software like Tiktok but people did look for alternatives and used them.

>>105970865
Because that radical feminist group is sitting on a 6 million Dollar budget and threatened to start a smear campaign if they don't comply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFvE-ze1U6g

>>105970904
Wasn't the whole point of crypto to decouple from this fake and gay controlled economy?

>>105970912
God I fucking hate Jewsa. EU's demuttization can't come soon enough. But that still leaves us without proper replacement for Visa and other payment services. And they are too much into muh environment faggotry to embrace bitcoins or other shit like that.

>>105970878
I'm not talking about the OF skanks. The org that blew the whistle on steam and drew the ire of the payment processors is a christcuck womans group.

I think their just a proxy for the payment processors anyway, because it lends political/religious charge to the matter and makes it so that people of certain inclinations will just agree by default.

>>105970940
TikTok is a reupload of a leak of Vine’s codebase dumbass. Nothing to do with YouTube, to the point that YouTube had to add shorts to compete with IT.

>>105970972
My point still stands that it was another media sharing app that people flocked to as an alternative to getting censored on YouTube ans other platforms. People are still going further with this goofy china apps and using RedNote even.

>>105970997
No they didn't. People flocked to tiktok because it gave zoomoids easy and quick dopamine hits and gave them delusions of becoming a celebrity because videos were quick to recommend them to trending.

>>105970956
Yeah but the problem is converting crypto into real money for taxation.

>>105971021
That too, you realize two things can be true at the same time that aren't necessarily directly related to one another. You can't dismiss my point all together when plenty of people have given there own personal testimony of using that app for that reason. That's a huge reason why people were crying about Tiktok getting banned, not just because of the clout or the money.

>>105971044
That's got to be easier to do than it is for Gabe to make another half life game or lose weight.

>>105970785
Shovelware porngame devs can't release on steam anymore. You know, those "sexual content" tagged unity and renpy garbage that flood the "new releases" section every day. This is catastrophic news to /g/ who are avid porn shovelware enjoyers

>>105970891
Because they focus on making alternative to X because Y instead of making alternative to Y instead.
If payment processing pigs are refusing to avail services to you, then you make alternatives to payment services, hopefully in a country where there is no retarded civil rights law faggotry.

>>105970956
It was, then crypto bros hijacked it and turned it into a get rich quick scam.

>>105971062
This isn't about the coomers damn it! This is about banks through payment processors ruling your life while telling you that you will own nothing and be happy as they force this crap upon you. You know who is behind "the banks" and "the payment processors" too!

>>105971098
No shit anon, the banks are literally a shadow government, they always have been. You're not going to start a revolution on /g/, and you're not going to start a revolution over not being to purchase coomer games on steam. Find a bigger fish to fry

>>105971062
It always starts with the phrase 'think about the women and children'.

>>105970781 (OP)
if i was a credit card company i would start with the flow hanging fruit that's hard to justify not removing. then once i've made them bend the knee my demands would become more and more unreasonable, until all the content i didnt want wasn't on the site and any content that WAS on the site, i'd take a cut of that. and if they didn't play ball? i'd just nitpick the smallest little thing they did wrong then shut them down for good, sending a message to whoever comes next who is REALLY in charge.

oh wait that's what's already happening

>>105971126
>find a bigger fish to fry
At what point do people wake up to this shit and resist? This is why we can't have anything nice!

>>105970838
>"christian" group where a spoke-person is a woman, lmao
>payment processors are run buy jews, the top propagators of porn
There's more to it than that.

>>105970781 (OP)
Even if some alternatives were to emerge, what's to stop the payment processors from bullying them too?

>>105971062
You seem to be a retard. Let me explain it to you:
Steam is no more. Might as well call it Feminsteam because they now control everything that goes in and out of the plataform.

>>105970781 (OP)
There's aren't any other alternatives. If there were they would just get astroturfed with actually legal content until the moderation cost was too much. . The only thing you can do is force acceleration into the major game studios. Tag mainstream games accurately as having rape or incest in them.

>>105970834
Won't work. The payment processors won't do business with people that even have those things on their platform. It's not about how you pay.

>>105971220
Because the only reason they can bully these platforms in the first place is because they were made the middleman in the first place. Crypto was supposed to be the go around for this but at the end of the day it's really up to both parties involved to cut the middle man out and create alternatives. If people realized that together banks and the whole system would collapse if they simply stopped using their services and decoupled themselves from it. The real economy at the end of the day isn't even the bank accounts, lines of credit, or currencies being exchanged but the goods and services themselves. It would all end if people stopped seeing themselves as consumers instead of producers willing to exchange on whatever they feel like.

>>105971126
>not being to purchase coomer games on steam
Another retard? See: >>105971264
The new Feminsteam rules give them power to remove ANYTHING that they want. Now, even the devs will auto-censor(or do whatever the master wants).

>>105971307
>If people realized that together banks and the whole system would collapse if they simply stopped using their services and decoupled themselves from it.
People do realize that, retard. They just put up with it because the alternative is always worse than the status quo in practice.

>>105970838
I hate the neocons so fucking much

>>105970781 (OP)
lmao the only people complaining about this 'censorship' are absolutely fucked in the head. You fucking retards need mental help.

>>105970781 (OP)
Thought I was on /v/

Thank you trannies for letting off topic shit stay up and banning anyone who mentions Jews are using AI to kill gentiles

>>105971191
It's probably just the chinese. The chinese make the most porn games and they're using that as an excuse. We'll know for sure if palword disappears from steam

>>105970786
>>105970839
>>105970848
>>105970891
>>105971067
>REDDIT INVENTED PARAGRAPHS
>IM AN OLDFAG

are you a jeet or a gook?

>>105970838
>A radfem christian group (dead serious) that has been known to somehow sic payment processors on "icky" stuff pulled one over on steam, and the payment processors got pissed at gabe for allowing porn on the platform, and a ton of games were or are being removed.
>
>People are pissed that christcucks are dictating shit like this, and are worried their going to go after other things, since apparently the bitch leading the christcuck group has the ear of someone major at one of these payment processors.

Anon....

You can summarize all of this this one word.

Here, I'll do it for it for you.

"Jews"

See?

Wasn't that difficult.

>>105971577
>do NOT try to understand what is actually happening, turn your brain off and pretend that reality operates on cartoon writing

>>105971593
He's right you know

>>105971600
He can see the trees, but he will never see the forest.

>>105970781 (OP)
>ever trusting a jew
Your fault that you fell for it

GoG chads stay winning

>>105970785
Retards think payment processors have a duty to help them buy degenerate shit

>>105971524
Another retard? See: >>105971386

>>105970838
They aren't against abortion so not very Christian of them.

Still, based all things considered.

>Banks have been censoring people including motherfucking Kanye West
>I sleep

>Banks stop me from purchasing degenerate slop
>OH MAAAAAAAAAAH GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD THIS IS LIKE GAYMERGATE BUT WORSE

>>105971386
You never 'owned' any of the games on (((steam))) you retarded brown faggot

>>105970912
Eventually weimerica will collapse due to economic or some other form of geopolitical chaos.

The people are disunited, foreigners flood the nation with zero legality, drugs everywhere.

If all major cities and metro areas in america collapses and everyone perished inside america would return to an 85% white nation.

>>105971656
>degenerate shit
Its anything that the group behind it considers bad, like gender stereotypes.
They already can and they will butcher Steam.
See >>105971386

>>105970781 (OP)
>The Steam that we once used to know is practically dead at this point

who cares? We all play mainstream games anyway. And if a dev is smart, he makes his game mainstream so most people will enjoy and want to play them

>>105971663
Not exactly, they claim that they are "pro-lifers" because they put effort into preventing it, but they do not want to criminalize abortion, which suggests that they do not see it as a crime(They have that feminist view that women are always the victim and have no agency). And this is indeed not Christian.

>>105971676
Nobody is saying anything about ownership, I'm talking about the "editorial power" that feminists now have to select and even edit what comes in and goes out. They can even order a game to be removed if it doesn't complies with their demand for something to be changed, and then an "update patch" appears and the game that you bought is no more(maybe even before you finish it). Maybe games will have to come "fully spoiled" now to prevent this.

>>105971676
>degenerate slop
Again with the gaslighting.
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on Steam rules that says that the feminist dogs, aka payment processors, can ONLY attack porn content.

>>105971191
Christschizos pretending to be women’s groups while being funded and run by christschizos is how alcohol got outlawed temporarily in the us.
It’s how the war on drugs started.
It’s how the age of consent got raised to 18.
It’s how the war on trannies started.
It’s the same exact play for the fast 250 years and people are STILL falling for it.
They are funded by and represent christschizos, like every other one of similar groups for “muh women muh children” that are curiously only ever interested in pushing social conservatism instead of anything actual women are affected by.

>>105970781 (OP)
Would be a shame if a bunch of companies unhappy with credit cards being cunts got together to attack their duopoly by creating a competing service.
I'm sure that Amazon, Walmart, Steam, Apple, don't like paying even a single percent cut to the CC for using their service.

>>105972025
There are no explicit statements from Tankard Reist on LGBT issues (lesbian, gay, bi, gender ideology, transgender rights, or non-binary identities). Her public commentary primarily focuses on pornography, sexual violence, and the sexualization of girls, with little direct engagement with contemporary gender identity debates. And "Women’s Forum Australia"(the "far-right" group that she founded) only began to act against gender ideology after it became more safe due to Matt Walsh's influence, before that, all they did was side with a UK woman, who lost her job in 2021, because she said that men can't become women. Where was their outrage at the whole entertainment industry changing everything(tv series, movies, comics, games, etc) to promote LGBT everywhere(even in children TV shows)? Where was her group's outrage at the games that were teaching kids about gender ideology and permanent body mutilation like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as it was even easier to access than porn and arguably more dangerous(suicide risk)? Or when Nintendo removed Male and Female from the Mii selection(wont it confuse children, as their Mii MIGHT be reflected as specific gender in SOME software?)? Where was their outrage against all kinds of sex, including bestiality(obscene criminal act of sexual nature), in BG3?
Yeah, Her group does not seem to oppose common LGBT issues nor gender ideology, In fact, feminism needs gender ideology to exist because without it there is no "gender is a social construct" and therefore no "equality" between men and women, only two groups who evolved to occupy different social roles.

Again, the "Christschizos", excluding Trump, seem to only achieve something when their actions seem to align with those on left(men bad/women good), and with the help of corporations(top to bottom).
I have a "feeling" that whatever is happening with steam, and everywhere else, will start to have less and less effect on LGBT themed things as time passes...

>>105972309
>all those words confirming what I just said, that they frame it as women’s/children’s issues while exclusively pursuing social conservatism aligned with chistschizo ideology, the same as every similar astroturf movement for the last 200 years
Please learn to read.

rutracker.org exists already

>>105970781 (OP)
Give him 5 years. He have a prototype to dethrone Windows as gaming OS (unimaginable 10 years ago) making something like revolut will not be this hard. Apple and google did it and they suck ass. Matercard will regret the bullshit they try to pull, Gaben always win at the end and always give you back all the bullshit you gave him with interest.

>>105972603
>unimaginable 10 years ago
And still is. SteamOS will remain niche on desktop, there's nothing to suggest otherwise. They'll probably focus on the handheld side of it after realizing how unrealistic dethroning Windows is.

>>105971676
Extremely low quality post. Very likely posted by a homosexual low IQ mouth breathing troglodyte with an underbite.

>>105970865
There was an interesting comment on hacker news explaining why visa and Mastercard will do everything to stay in the best grace of the governments to preserve their duopoly and irregulated fee rates.

>>105972540
Is that VPN Gate? If so, do you recall which version?

>>105971524
It’s about the precedent faggot

>>105970781 (OP)
idk why you're shittalking gabe when he hasn't run the company for years and only collects his retirement paychecks

>>105971044
People just use crypto denominated in USD now though.
In fact as of this week it's fully regulated at the federal level.
You just use stablecoins that are fully backed 1:1 and held in US banks protected by the government(see the SV bank collapse for proof), issued by publicly traded companies like Circle.
Even Paypal has their own crypto USD stable coin.
Surely the new extensive regulation makes taxation easy, or the government wouldn't have passed it.
No conversion necessary, so I don't see why it would be a tax problem.
But I'm also not a corporate accountant, so perhaps I'm missing something.
People will probably end up 'using crypto' without having any idea they are, since hundreds of billions of it is denominated and backed by real USD. No speculation necessary.

>>105972887
Because he abondoned us and steam which is pretty much his child! Like George Lucas said himself, he sold off his metaphorical child and you never trust a person willing to pimp their children out. FOR SHAME!!!

>>105970781 (OP)
>banned the lowest effort weg’s
based

>>105973145
>weg
What's that?

>>105973163
Western Erotic Game
Basically, cartoon porn games or shitty 3DPD garbage made by USA-oids and EU-oids. Inspired by hentai/ero games from Japan but not made at the same level of quality.

>>105973179
What japanese hentai/erotic games do you think are quality?

>>105972496
Man, they will not be against LGBT in the near future just like they were not in the past because they need gender ideology, their position is at most republican but its not conservative and definitely not christian.

>>105973200
Eroge start out as higher quality by default because they're not made by an irony-addicted culture that systematically attacks and subverts fundamental aesthetic ideals into ugly caricatures and woke nonsense.
But no- most of it is slop too; and the only reason it's on there is because valve opened the floodgates after the last time puritan trolls attacked them.
The canary doesn't have to be pretty or nice, it just has to die when there is a threat.

>>105973358
>yeah well [headcanon]
I accept your concession.

>>105970781 (OP)
>So now that this smug fatty got bent over then chucked and cucked by the payment processor companies
Who the fuck starts a thread like that? You're a creep lmao

>>105970781 (OP)
>muh vidya
you're way too old to complain about this shit. please change and grow as a person.

>>105970838
Gabe should start accepting memecoins as payments

>>105970781 (OP)
>I-I can't goon!
nmo

Why is onlyfans and other degen shit allowed then?

>>105971593
The jews make porn but also prevent you from buying it

>>105973498
I did bitch, go cry about it to someone who cares. You can't tone police people you low quality posting bitch.

>>105970781 (OP)
What makes you think payment processors don't have a death grip over any small-scale alternative if they're bending over steam?
You're looking at the real oligarchs, they call the shots.

>>105971696
Anon, the people in charge of visa and MasterCard are white.
American whites are the problem.

>>105973084
>Surely the new extensive regulation makes taxation easy, or the government wouldn't have passed it.
crypto taxation for simple transfers is, as far as I am aware, a solved problem. Every crypto transfer is a capital disposal and needs to be reported with its cost basis and proceeds.

Now complex DeFi shit? Do your best lol, a lot of it doesn't have a clear tax interpretation and you just need to at least show a good faith effort.

I don't care, I hope computer games get destroyed and cucked so that I can hear you screech until the day I croak. You niggers had your chance with gamergate but you'll literally cancel any non grifter dev sympathetic to your cause if he as much as misgenders you or some sacred cow you like after years of thankless labor. You are literally as bad as the other side except you can't organize for shit, because you're too homosexual and attention starved to not randomly anal rape one another on a whim like a russian conscript. Suck my cock and buy my latest microtransaction grift, nigger. That 12+ hour long singleplayer game with 240 fps and unlockables up the ass, zero dlc and no DRM? Gone, forever. It literally does not exist in the timeline you chose. Keep buying cardboard from Nintendo, sucking Gaben's cock, promoting 5 hour games with stolen indie designs that have a 40% crash rate on launch, and most importantly: Kill yourself. Thank you.

>>105970838
All the games complained about were assuredly trash so I with the Christians on this even though I bet they’re the weird Evangelical ones

They are doing everyone a favor and you cry about it
They are being the parents you never got
Steam got filled with garbage years ago and they need to curate their content more

There used to be something called freeware that’s the bin these games belong in
Just watch porn you weebs

>>105974338
based
Pic related was the last piece of gamer hardware worth owning but truthfully even this was deep into the wrecked gaming era so in a way it itself is already cuck hardware.
Gaming needs to die. Perhaps something good can arise from its ashes, but right now there isn't a single genuinely good game that has been released in almost 20 years from anybody but indie devs.

>>105973628
Porn good but only when femoids are profiting from it. Other porn is bad because it takes attention away from femoids.

>>105974431
You fucking idiot, you realize they can bankroll the opposition and radicals to advocate for the changes they want to implement. Useful idiots get bankrolled all the time to make "meaningful change" and sieze power.

>>105973628
No nooticing allowed