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

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713 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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wmf ◴[18 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44606777[source]▶
It complicates things to have some games that can be purchased with credit cards and some games that can only be purchased with crypto.
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1. Hemospectrum ◴[18 Jul 25 16:48 UTC] No.44606915[source]▶
If they continued to carry any of the games that were singled out for removal by Visa and Mastercard, they would not be able to accept credit card payments for anything else in their store. This same drama has played out the same way with countless other online services.