Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

• Prime@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wrong angle of attack. What about other companies that suffer from the payment processor? Not everyone can build their own.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What you are saying is basically:

  Steam should just have immediately invented its own PayPal, its own payment processing system, that works everywhere.

  I mean… I do think this is something they could actually do, but its kind of nuts to just frame this as if they could have just flipped a switch and such a system would exist, blamo.

  No, this would be a huge undertaking, which would, as many other Valve projects and concepts, take time.

  You can’t just instantly implement what you seem to think you can. None this works that way, at all.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hence the “past two decades” part of my comment. Sure it would take time, but looking at valves investment into linux gaming, tbey are no stranger to long term gambles. The status quo being the status quo doesnt absolve people from things. If it did, we could never improve anything in the world.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lemme put it this way.

      Valve did not prepare for unforseen consequences.

      I don’t think anyone really thought that what is happening right now was a likely thing that would happen, going back 20 years.

      Payment processors had never had a problem with this before, and then blam.

      Its… dubious to frame this as if this foundational business infrastructure that had never before shown any cracks or signs of wear… should just have been reasonably expected to suddenly shatter into a thousand pieces at some point.

      Sure, yes, they could have been more forward looking, but you’re already talking about one of the most innovative and forward looking companies in gaming.

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      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Payment processors had never had a problem with this before

        Thats what i dont understand, because yes of course they have. Payment processors and banks cutting off individuals or groups for political reasons is like the oldest fucking trick in the book. The payment system oligopoly has been a ticking time bomb in the eyes of any person actually paying attention. Centralized global infrastructure will always fail, its just a question of when.

        This time it was caused by some random weird anti game group, but what do you think will happen to all the US based payment systems once Trump fully manifests his hold over them?

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    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “My local grocer stopped selling meat for some reason, but really its my fault for not having a 100 acre cattle farm already in the works, since I’ve been eating meat my entire life”

      Why would valve have any reason to need their own payment processing? thats why these services exist, to use them and their infrastructure instead of having to make your own. That’s the foundation of an economy your are arguing against here.

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• Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not if the bank won’t sccept the deposits

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