Couldn't Steam/Valve just make it so that you can only buy AO rated games using your Steam Wallet? When you buy a game with your Steam Wallet, the purchase does not go through an external payment processor like MasterCard or VISA, it's all processed internally by Steam/Valve.

>>716197879 (OP)
They will try to deplatform steam as a whole if they did.

>>716197879 (OP)
No. Because that's not what Visa and MC want.

>>716197879 (OP)
the thing is pretty much every game that would get an AO rating just releases on Steam unrated
and any "real" studio that gets their games rated will never make a game that stays AO

>>716198109
They can't do that.

they could
they haven't tried it
processors only care for liability

>>716198494
why not? steam needs them more than they need steam

>>716198781
Because it's not really VISA or MasterCard giving a fuck, it's external factors like activists pressuring them to do so. They can't do it because it's also very illegal. All MasterCard and VISA want is that pressure off of them and this way fixes it.

>>716198494
Someone in EU, please make EU initiative to ban major digital distribution platform to sell pornographic materials. We need to stop irresponsible big american company to rot our children brains.

>>716198920
That won't happen either.

>>716197879 (OP)
No the processors don't want content they find icky to exist on a store where they can be used, even if you can't use their services to buy the ick.
All Valve can do is move Steam to support Steam Wallet gift cards purchased with cash from a convenience store and crypto until the processors buckle, but Gabe doesn't have the willpower to fight back anymore.

>>716197879 (OP)
no because the credit kikes demand that you not have anything they dislike at all.
would it work if they launched an alternate storefront dedicated to h-games?

Anon, they bent the knee to a group of radical feminists and throw (You) under the bus. If they had balls they would have used 1% of all their power and money to defend the paying costumer and developers. You know, the ones who actually pay their fucking salaries. But they just went and decided to placate a fringe group of radical feminists.

>>716197879 (OP)
THERE IS A BILL IN CONGRESS TO STOP PAYMENT PROCESSOR VISA AND MASTERCARD NIGGERY
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/987
CALL AND EMAIL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN
STOP CORPORATIONS FROM RAPING YOUR LIFE
>(1) IN GENERAL.—To provide fair access to financial services, a covered bank, including a subsidiary of a covered bank,
>shall, except as necessary to comply with another provision of law—
>(A) make each financial service the covered bank offers available to all persons in the geographic market served by the covered bank on proportionally equal terms;
>(B) not deny any person a financial service the covered bank offers unless the denial is justified by such quantified and documented failure of the person to meet quantitative,
>impartial risk-based standards established in advance by the covered bank;
>(C) not deny, in coordination with or at the request of others, any person a financial service the covered bank offers; and


>(D) when denying any person financial services the covered bank offers,
>provide written justification to the person explaining the basis for the denial,
>including any specific laws or regulations the covered bank believes are being violated by the person or customer.
>(b) Prohibition.—No payment card network, including a subsidiary of a payment card network, may, directly or through any agent, processor, or licensed member of the network, by contract, requirement, condition, penalty, or otherwise, prohibit or inhibit the ability of any person who is in compliance with the law, including section 8 of this Act, to obtain access to services or products of the payment card network because of political or reputational risk considerations.

Call your senators, a single letter from them caused this much change, so can a single phone call from you.

This is because gabe refused to let them put the cuties movie on the movie section steam has

>>716199347
OY VEYYYYY anti-semite. stop this at once! think of the soccer moms!

>>716197879 (OP)
Or pay pal or whoever the fuck. Just take visa/mastercard off the games they don't like.

>>716199548
paypal is being cucked by visa too

>Sexualising Age-Appropriate Fictional People: >:(
>Sexualising Real Children in Television: >:)
Why are they like this?

>>716199584
You know why. They can't face reality so they go after fiction as a smokescreen. It's always the same. Go to your local meeting and do something instead of posting on 4chinz

>>716199098
But wouldn't that mean Itchio would stop operating? What the activists (>>716199098
them) care about is that you're using THEM to buy those icky stuff.

>>716198109
Steam will just switch a different set of providers. This isn't a rinky dink porno site. It's the largest digital retailer of games.

>>716199803
>This isn't a rinky dink porno site
That's not you or Gabe to decide. If there's enough (((public awareness))), surely things can change for the better.

>>716198907
why does visa and mastercard listen to those trannies? They want to control steam as well.

>>716200173
because the cc kikes want h-games gone. the sjw snowflakes are the perfect excuse to enact their plans
the bigger question is why the fuck the boomers in government are passing laws that criminalize drawings and at whose behest those laws are being drafted

who cares? fuck coomers lol

>>716202076
you cared enough to reply shartytroon

>>716197879 (OP)
just don't buy shitty ""games""

>>716198494
of course they can, dummy. big banks can do absolutely anything and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them;

>716202076
t. no test

>>716203386
Its illegal anon, I don't know where you live.

>>716197879 (OP)
It doesn't matter you still need payment processors, so either you switch (which isn't that easy) or bend the knee to their requests or they pull out and destroy 99 percent of your sales

This wouldn't be happening if payment processors had balls

>>716206939
MasterCard and VISA don't want you purchasing those items using them, they basically are okay if you use some other shit.

In order to purchase cryptocurrency you still need payment processors, cryptocurrency is used in a lot of shady shit so why don't they just end cryptocurrency purchases?

>>716197879 (OP)
The entire point was threatening to pull support for Steam entirely if they did not comply. It's not that that don't want their OWN services being used to buy those things, they're throwing their weight around so NO ONE can buy those things, at all, under any circumstances. You know, something they have absolutely no say in, but users have little to no alternative so they are forced to comply to stay in business. Almost like a monopoly, only there's two of them so that makes it okay. You can choose one party or the other. The system is working as intended.

>>716207242
because that crypto coin gets exchanged for real money later, banks get to tax that, and that's free money

bitcoin was a real alternative at some point, but miners and nvidia fucked everything up

>>716197879 (OP)
On top of what's already been said about Visa/MC pulling their services entirely, this shit happened to Gumroad and other websites earlier as well.

>>716207242
As I said, they have the power to censor and they'd rather do that to protect the brand, which is retarded but well

I mean most people don't even know what payment processor are or that they exist and blame credit cards, which are only indirectly involved

>>716197879 (OP)
They could just pull out entirely and that would be utterly devastating for Steam.

>>716198920
sure, its obscure lewd games on steam rotting our kids brains, not AI robbing them of the capacity to think for themselves, not social media, no creatively bankrupt mainstream entertainment designed to literally cannibalize their minds into endlessly watching worthless slop...

>>716198494
They sure could. People would raise a huge stink, but they're well within their legal right to deny service. So unless something changes with the law, it is a colossal risk for Valve to try and fight this. It's either remove some porn games that are very hard to openly defend, or put Steam and everyone who uses it on the chopping block.

>>716198920
Children should not be allowed on the internet.

How do you get the money into your Steam Wallet?