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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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713 points freedomben | 6 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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timpera ◴[18 Jul 25 16:24 UTC] No.44606574[source]▶
Considering their volume, I find it hard to believe that Valve couldn't find another, more lenient payment processor with similar fees.
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1. bobsmooth ◴[18 Jul 25 16:29 UTC] No.44606628[source]▶
There are no other payment processors.
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2. slaw ◴[18 Jul 25 16:48 UTC] No.44606924[source]▶
There are national issuers like JCB or UnionPay.
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3. vouaobrasil ◴[18 Jul 25 16:49 UTC] No.44606948[source]▶
In some countries there are other systems. It's high time the modern world adopted something similar like Pix in Brazil.
4. raincole ◴[18 Jul 25 18:27 UTC] No.44608190[source]▶
There are no other payment processors that can replace Visa/Mastercard*.

There are other payment processors in India/Japan/China/Brazil/etc. But none of them is internationally adopted like Visa/Mastercard.

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5. latentsea ◴[19 Jul 25 00:04 UTC] No.44611221[source]▶
I'm getting a JCB card. Screw Visa.
6. jandrese ◴[19 Jul 25 00:27 UTC] No.44611361[source]▶
Is it the case the Mastercard/Visa will reject a site that has such content even if you can only purchase it using ValveBucks or PayPal or something? That seems plausible.