Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors

madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, and there aren’t many alternatives.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People with a lot of money doesn’t really want just money. They want power to impose their views over the rest. Money is just a mean to do so.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The shareholders aren’t the ones pressuring the payment processors.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the payment processors didn’t randomly wake up this week and decide to ban NSFW video games for a power trip.

      they are being financially pressured in some way to threaten game platforms that they’ll remove their services completely. the implication of that is they’re worried about losing even more money that they make from payments on game platforms.

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They give a shit because they are being pressured into giving a shit by religious nutjobs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_in_Media

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That hasn’t ever stopped other companies from pursuing profits at all other costs.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why are they capitulating gthough?

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re still thinking within reason. Megalomania doesn’t.

    It’s not about money, but power. “The world bent its knee at our word.” Simple as that. People can be and are that crazy.

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• shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an Australian organisation pressuring the payment processors.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not just happening recently with Steam and Itch.io, it’s been happening for a while.

    Some smutty art creators on Patreon have been chased off that platform because of payment processors telling patreon they’d pull the plug if Patreon kept that type of art on the platform. Those same artists have then reported being unable to set up, for instance, Stripe for their paywalls.

    Porn stars have complained about being unable to set up accounts with payment processors.

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