That’s exactly what DLsite has done when MasterCard and Visa banned them. Granted, they’re Japanese so most fo their sales use Japanese methods like JCB, PayPay, etc. I’m not sure if this would kill services that didn’t have such a large domestic audience.
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madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So if the problem is payment, what stops a company from selling “tokens” and those tokens can be redeemed for “anything”?
That way the visa / mastercard assholes can suck a cock, no?
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It would likely be the same in the eyes of the payment processor. It technically is the same thing, except you must “top up” your account with money first before buying a game, instead of buying it directly.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented cryptocurrency.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The whole crypto scene seems like a scheme at the moment… But then you see the bullshit visa / mastercard are pulling and you see the need for a digital currency.
Any corporation with near monopoly power will ALWAYS fuck up the consumer.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Crypto, in my view is more conceded with libertarianism than actually helping anyone. I read the grievances as capitalism not providing enough opportunity to be the boot.
Even still crypo is centralized as that is how most people interact with it. The speculative nature also makes it a bad currency.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WTF are you actually trying to say here?
Conceded is the past tense of concede, which is to surrender.
How the fuck do you more surrendered with anything???
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
Just make instant direct payments… you know, like SEPA. No need for any new schemes.