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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.

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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  to force their values on their clients.
  
  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.
  
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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  not credit card, debit
  
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Another great example of why their monopoly racket should be destroyed.

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- iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If only there exists a technology
  
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