Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.

• lath@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because many "players" are refunding after a fap, which is logged and reviewed. Also, suspicious or new transactions are often flagged and reviewed. So a lot of such side content is being pushed in front of the banks and payment processors by horny clients who unwittingly expose their kinks.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a large number of refunds came from a single source it seems like Steam would be the one addressing the issue, not payment processors.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The post nut clarity of realizing that buying that porn game was not such a great idea

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seem like an easy solution would be to have certain transactions be nonrefundable.

    I say easy, but I guess it would involve quite a bit of software changes, and then you’d also have to deal with angry customers who ignored numerous warnings that a purchase would be final.

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s even less consumer friendly. If you purchase a game and it turns out to be shovelware that barely works and has a bunch of gamed reviews on the store page? Oh too bad sap, you got conned this is non-refundable.

      Consumers had to fight for games that do refundable, I don’t think we should be quick to consider loopholes.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those payment processors can just look at the store and see that it sells smut. Those payment processors do their own due diligence.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Money laundering and anti terrorism laws would be my guess.

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