Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy

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• threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The headline doesn't seem to match the article.

  one of PayPal’s acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions, which cut off PayPal on Steam for a number of currencies

  As of early July, the currencies that can still use PayPal on Steam include EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD and USD.

  It seems like a bank that processes PayPal payments in minor currencies has stopped processing transactions for Steam because of the content it hosts. Shouldn't people be mad at this bank, not Steam?

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Steam should implement direct bank payments to decentralize the payment infrastructure. Steam is not blameless in this.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not if the bank won’t sccept the deposits

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let me just mail my money in an envelope to Valve. That would get rid of the middleman!

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see it didn’t take long for polygon to turn into a clickbait factory.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I really doubt they care.

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