Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand

candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Like for real, the only reason I’m associating them with these games now is because they’ve actively brought it into the limelight, so we can see that

  I wouldn’t have even thought anything of association if they hadn’t done so.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is actually ruining their brand. I now associate MC and Visa with Christian oppression

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They think they’re more than a money pipe.

  A competitor to MasterCard and Visa could show up with double their combined budget and do what they do to massively disrupt this particular industry. The average Joe would not give half a shit and continue paying for stuff with whatever card their bank gave them just like they always have.

  The specific brand of payment processor a card uses is just not a thing people care about unless they have an Amex and that’s essentially because places don’t always take it.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The astonishingly hypocritical part:

  Guess who does payment processing for OnlyFans?

  Visa.

  And MasterCard.

  =D

  All you need to verify your id is a credit card!

  Then you get all the pr0n you want!

  Hope you didn’t borrow one from your parents!

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tbf in my day the children who thought of that and followed through got caught. Statements and such.

    Those who didn’t get caught either stole it in magazine or VHS/DVD form straight from the store, or from an older relative, and then when internet happened, from free or pirate sites (pics at first that took forever on a 56k modem, then videos as tech progressed). Or if you were lucky someone would burn DVDs and sell them.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The trick is not actually buying anything.

      Just using it for an id verification.

      On a site that actually doesn’t cost anything.

      It could be done, over a 56k modem, guess how I know?

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, that wasn’t a thing back in my day. At first there was no age verification, then it became the familiar “Are you 18? [Yes] [No]” system we all know and love.

        Well I suppose there was ID checks at the store, but ykwim.

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