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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

Newly added rule is:

Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

Diff of the new terms https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamworksDocumentation/commit/fddd59b5395cc3c1c74574650dbf5784612d0521

:/ payment processors strike again (slippery slope etc)

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago

If Steam or someone went to crypto just to kick the processors out, that might be one thing that would actually make me look at crypto with something other than derision.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That's what Backpage tried to do when the cc processors pulled out. The owners of Backpage were at some point charged with money laundering among many many other crimes. The years of legal battles that started in 2018 drove one of them to suicide. Would not recommend.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Backpage is very different than Valve. Backpage execs were directly involved in the pimping of minors, this were proven in court.

I don't believe Valve execs are pimping minors through Steam.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Its not different because in both instances it was CC companies being anti sex.

Realpage being a "den of CSAM" was not happening at any scale the CC companies were actively worried about and it was about defunding sex workers.

Same deal here. This is about control and puritanism.

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