If this is true, all gamers who care about this issue of censorship should collectively boycott those payment processors. PayPal should be especially easy to disconnect from since they already suck.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago-
Itch has come out and said it’s not Visa, it’s PayPal and Stripe.
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Removing those payment options would cause a massive loss of revenue.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah I already stopped using them years ago haha
scratchee@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
But removing them from the specific games they object to would not lose any more revenue than removing the games entirely, and reduce the backlash significantly, as long as they could find 1 obscure payment provider to handle the obscure games and keep some form of access.
LwL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
According to the statement someone else linked now, they will ask devs about whether they comply with the payment processors’ terms, and it sounds like those processors will otherwise be unavailable. They just had to blanket remove like this for now because they don’t actually have sufficient knowledge about all the games’ content.
We’ll see what will happen, and if it turns out devs are getting screwed in the long run, someone will fill the new market niche anyway.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Likely not worth the effort.