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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 months agovisa and MasterCard are forcing steam and other companies to either remove games THEY don’t agree with or be dropped by Mc/visa.
it’s just corporate censorship at its finest. credit card companies can essentially tell steam what they are or are not allowed to sell for some weird as fuck reason.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The weird as fuck reason is steam would no longer be able to take payments through MC or visa. That’s an insane loss of revenue. Valve would have to pay a third party to take payments.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s such an unnecessary gotcha response lol. Obviously they are reliant on those payment processors for their revenue, which is the very reason they are complying.
The point is that those two payment processors essentially run credit card payments in the west, and use that dominance to force their values on their clients.
iii@mander.xyz 2 months ago
A dominant oligarchic government/industry cooperation for sure. But I don’t think they have values. Just cost analysis: the price of litigation and punishment.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
not credit card, debit
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Another great example of why their monopoly racket should be destroyed.
iii@mander.xyz 2 months ago
If only there exists a technology