Is there a really good reason for why Visa/Mastercard and other payment processors act so uppity when it comes to video games?
The only reason I can think of is because they think they have an image to protect, but they don't: payment methods are a backend utility that moves money from the customer to the seller. That's it, most consumers don't have a "relationship" with your brand beyond having to hit in some numbers every now and then to pay for the product they themselves chose.

No customer alive has thought:
>"Now to pay for the degenerate product I want, but oh no, I can pay through my hecking wholesome Mastercard? What sin, I must relinquish all connections to Mastercard at once!"
These payment systems are protecting reputations that don't exist. No one has ever turned down Visa despite you being able to pay for your dragon dildo with it.

It's juvenile and unreasonable to think your brand needs protecting from its own users when, at best, your service is seen as a background utility.

>>715802791 (OP)
Because you and I know their brand is meaningless, but the company itself probably has an Executive Brand Manager or something equally retarded who convinces his board that this is some deeply worrying use of their logo because the Christian community will totally relinquish their credit cards over this.

You know, rationalizing his 7-figure job.

>>715802791 (OP)
what confuses me most is that it's so lopsided
you can buy porn, like actual hardcore pornographic videos, magazines and subscriptions to porn sites, with both mastercard and visa and no one bats an eye, but a woman in a bikini in an R-rated 18+ video game is where we draw the line?

Is this a poor person's issue?

>>715803475
No? It effects everyone who buys PC games with Visa and Mastercard. The poor person's issue is pic related.

>>715802791 (OP)
>Is there a really good reason for why Visa/Mastercard and other payment processors act so uppity when it comes to video games?
Pressure from the feminists/fundamentalist anti-sex anti-fun alliance

>>715803552
>It effects everyone who buys PC games with Visa and Mastercard
I use PayPal though

>>715803748

He's wrong. It effects everyone. Including PayPal users, because the games being taken down to please Visa and Mastercard won't suddenly show up again if you pick PayPal.

>>715802791 (OP)
>Is there a really good reason..
((them)))

I'm personally still stuck at the:
>buying porn games on Steam
There's a ton of legitimate DL sites where you can buy smut, completely uncensored and fully pre-patched with everything you'd ever want and it often costs less than the games do on Steam too. Like why further reinforce Steam's monopoly?

Wait what's this shit now? They're banning games? Does anybody have a list of the banned games yet?

>>715803748
PayPal will randomly decline when I use it on Steam but if I type in a card number manually it magically works

>>715803096
>he company itself probably has an Executive Brand Manager or something equally retarded who convinces his board that this is some deeply worrying use of their logo

That's pretty much what's going on, they have some higher up exec who hates porno and is trying to use Visa/MC influence to get it banned everywhere. I forgot the mooks name.

>>715804170
Skill issue

>>715802791 (OP)
Its ironic because I'm considering cancelling my Mastercard over this. Its just a worthless cash back card. I could literally just get Amex or Discover that do the same shit.

>>715802791 (OP)
>>715803360
>>715804130
It's not just vidya. Patreon and similar sites have also been bullied by the big two card corpos over smut

>>715804130
DL Site got hit way before Steam

It's because of the false equivalent of rape/cp and fictional videogames.

If a money processor allows actual pedos and rapists to share real footage of victims that would actually hit them; hence since some (((groups))) have managed to equate cute anime girls with pedos and "rape/lack of consent", they feel the need to protect themselves as if it were real criminals and real footage.

Yes it's retarded.

>>715804130
Those other places are not convenient. You have to buy gift cards and shit. Like the DMM site

>>715802791 (OP)
Not only to videogames. To art as well for example, an artist can get fucked over by paypal and all the payment processors for no reason whatsoever.

>>715802791 (OP)
>Is there a really good reaso-
Jews.

>game company STEAM has women complain
>”sorry but we can’t do shit” would get them killed
>they use card companies as a scapegoat for THEIR OWN NEW PRACTICES

Just look to pornhub as an example. If you operate in a legal grey area, all it takes is a journlist writing an emotional piece about possible damage and mentioning that the payment processors are allowing it to happen to start getting lawsuits and congressional hearings. It's proactive risk management based on past experience. And it's all caused by journalists who have an axe to grind or an agenda to push. These companies didn't used to do this until Backpage and Pornhub fiascos where CC companies were targeted as enablers.

>>715806291
You may think these aren't related to a couple porn games but wait till someone fucks their sister because they played an incest game on steam as an "impressionable young child".

>>715803949
But (((them))) want to corrupt whitey with porn, no?

>>715802791 (OP)
So Mastercard has an issue with vidya but not the $3500 I spent in Hawaii on prostitutes and drugs. Makes sense I guess.

>>715803360
They only want you buying their porn because they have a stake in it

>>715806440
Yeah because theres a chance the condom breaks and you'll help the birth rates

>>715806418
Yes they want to corrupt people with porn (((they))) make, jap stuff and we trash is direct competition since they get no money from it

>>715806528
Since when are Jews happy for white births?

>>715806582
They want more slaves

You can pay for prostitutes in both Nevada and the Netherlands/Germany with visa and mastercard. Anime games are too far though.

>>715806275
>”sorry but we can’t do shit” would get them killed
Survey says 90% of Steam users are males under 25.

I can't believe you guys actually payed for those steam porn games. No wait, I can believe it

They hate porn because porn is and always will be low a class product people frequently chargeback after the post nut clarity hits.

>>715806413
that would happen even if the internet died and was erased from the worlds' memory
incest and sexual exploitation existed for as long as human history and everyone knows virtualy experiencing something is "just as good" as the real thing which leads to the perception that the real thing is unnecessary
very many levels to consider

>>715802791 (OP)
Steam should just use their own currency that doesn't involve payment processors to buy games.

Just put crypto back like Steam did once before. Why the fuck do I have to rely on retarded centralized payment processors that have to project their miserable lifes onto my life?

Payment processors are now the morality police and any organized group can harass them to to push that small groups morality on an entire marketplace. No due process, no questions, nothing to even do with legality.

>>715808407
All porn will become illegal.

>>715803748
https://www.collectiveshout.org/

>>715803096
>Christian
Fuck you, disingenuous tranny filth.

>>715808230
Lol that fat retard Gaben stopped BTC payment in 2017 when it was only 15k. I bet he regrets it now.

>>715804130
VISA already hit DLsite, dumbfuck

>>715808634
Fuck off election tourist, are we intentionally erasing evangelical outrage against games now?

>>715808230
Wouldn't help, the processors supposedly don't want to be associated with a storefront that has those games at all, even if they aren't processing the payment on them. Just the association is their issue, and they'll drop processing for steam altogether if they allow said games even with alternative payment methods on them. Actual mafia tactics.

>>715802791 (OP)
Jews own both the porn industry and Visa/MC. They don't want people buying porn games or shit on Onlyfans because that's competition and worst of all doesn't promote the race mixing agenda. So they use Visa and MC as a tool to get rid of non jew-owned porn.

>>715802791 (OP)
MasterCard controls SWIFT. As in if you don't play ball they can ban you from international money transfer systems regardless of the payment processor you use.
>JUST BUILD YOUR OWN INTENTIONAL MONEY TRANSFER SYSTEM BRO
They're running a cartel and need to be dealt with.

>>715804130
You're a bit late. And everyone and their father knows that they will move onto next time if you give these corpotards an inch.

>>715802791 (OP)
It's pretty simple:
they have massive leverage because digital transfers of fiat currency are clunky
they are in the process of being ideologically captured and enshittified
in the next decade crypto will entirely take over digital money and nobody will want to pay interest or 5% merchant fees anymore

>>715803360
no? don't people remember the pornhub purge? It was for literally the same thing

>>715809101
Pornhub was hosting actual unverified underage pornography