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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: 0.001s | 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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astura ◴[18 Jul 25 16:31 UTC] No.44606650[source]▶
Adult content has a high chargeback rate and high fraud rates so payment processing for adult content has higher fees.
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AIPedant ◴[18 Jul 25 16:47 UTC] No.44606910[source]▶
The fact that these were specifically incest games makes me think a title was somehow involved in distributing CSAM, which is often why Visa/MC crack down on porn websites.

But it is possible that Visa sensibly and correctly said "anyone who makes or purchases such a game is a despicable scumbag, and we shouldn't assume the financial risk of dealing with them."

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1. Dylan16807 ◴[18 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44607221[source]▶
That's a pretty wild idea for what someone would be putting on steam as a visual novel. And why would they need to be pressured into removing horrible illegal content?

Or you think one person did that and it made the credit cards decide any story with incest would be the same? That would be ridiculous on their part.