Just a friendly reminder that Wero is activated in October for online commerce as a European alternative payment method. Fuck Visa, fuck MasterCard, fuck any of these American companies.
Do you think GOG might be the next?
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Ibuthyr@feddit.org 1 day ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
When my bank provides me with a realistic European alternative to MC or Visa, I will gladly take that!
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 15 hours ago
France has Carte Bleue, I don’t know if it’s available in other countries.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I’ll need to read up on this.
Ibuthyr@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Unfortunately, it’s currently only in Germany, Belgium and France. Netherlands and Luxembourg will join as well. I can only hope that it becomes a success, so it’ll be rolled out in all European countries.
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i bet they don’t even care they are collecting fees from porn, he have been doing it for the longest, that’s just more $ in their pockets. but just trying to please the fascist regime
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That and they got sued a few years back. Now they don’t want to be held legally responsible for their payments.
oblomov@sociale.network 1 day ago
@jewbacca117 @expatriado did they lose in court? If not, that's just an excuse.
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 day ago
Someone update me. /r/OutOfTheLoop
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
visa and MasterCard are forcing steam and other companies to either remove games THEY don’t agree with or be dropped by Mc/visa.
it’s just corporate censorship at its finest. credit card companies can essentially tell steam what they are or are not allowed to sell for some weird as fuck reason.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
Collective Shout, an Australian organization lobbies the payment processors to ban adult content from the internet, The payment processors acquiescence to Collective Shout.
Collective Shout is a self-described feminist non-partisan organization, but has alleged ties with anti-trans and conservative organizations. The group has developed a reputation as a sort of puritan crusade that targets everything from Detroit: Become Human to Tyler, the Creator.
gameshub.com/…/australian-anti-porn-group-collect…
Although itch.io has an adult content filter that can be toggled in a user’s settings, indicating whether they want explicit content to be visible in search results and on the store page, the sudden deindexing of NSFW comics, zines, books, games, and other published products on the website means that unless users type in direct links to explicit products, they cannot access them. As is often the case when explicit content is removed en masse, LGBTQIA+, furry, and other content that is considered “obscene” by conservative groups has also been delisted or removed, as reported by The Transfeminine Review. This is especially dangerous in a time when politicians and others in power (i.e. influential billionaires) are actively dehumanizing and disappearing trans people, immigrants, and anyone who steps out of line with the current regime.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I read somewhere that Collective Shout swayed the processors with around 1000 comments. And that because payment processors generally get so few comments that they felt like that was enough to make the policy change. Those of us who do care should probably figure out how to comment and push back. Might not be enough to save what was lost, but we shouldn’t let them get away with such an easy win.
atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Credit card companies pressured Steam to remove some content that has incest/rape in it, specifically stuff that is easily searched because there is still content with it available on Steam.
Recently credit card companies pressured Itch to remove all NSFW.
The only common thread is that video game selling platforms are bending over to make it so you cant buy stuff where you see stuff that bends over probably because of religion n oppressed small penis syndrome or something.
I don’t know wtf that first one is so im assuming something similar but I dont really care any more because Ive got a pirate hat and a provider of my high seas who doesnt give a shit either.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I’m not sure I would put blood leading to steam considering my “Because you love” section says Sexual Content Mature NSFW Nudity
And I’ve only purchased 3 porn games out of the hundreds of games in my library.
(I bought them specifically because they’re fun games even if you remove the porn. But also I don’t mind the porn)
Gladaed@feddit.org 22 hours ago
They have potential for a great slogan: gog on my cock!
stoy@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I don’t actually understand why payment processors are whining about what people buy using their service.
It’s not like people will go
“Ew, MasterCard, people buy porn with that payment processor, I don’t want a card like that!”