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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: 0.211s | source
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egypturnash ◴[18 Jul 25 23:34 UTC] No.44611013[source]▶
Okay so is Steam enough of a money printer for Valve to say "well fuck you guys, we'll make our own credit card with hookers and bingo"? And hold out Half-Life 3 (only purchasable with the ValveCard) as a carrot?
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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[18 Jul 25 23:44 UTC] No.44611095[source]▶
I am genuinely curious who can actually threaten Visa (I do not think it is Valve).

Amazon, Walmart, Target and then increasingly unsure.

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nipponese ◴[18 Jul 25 23:49 UTC] No.44611126[source]▶
Likely Apple currently has the deepest finance industry roots.
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1. xyst ◴[19 Jul 25 00:01 UTC] No.44611201[source]▶
If you consider the minutiae of percentage apple shaves off transactions with Apple Pay. Sure.

But they have partnered with GS and MC. Far from any sort of "finance industry roots".

They essentially offer a fancy UI on top of GS products and other traditional banks.

Apple Cash -> Green Dot or some other no name bank

Apple Card -> Goldman Sachs

Apple Pay -> some very small percentage of the bank and network fees charged to merchants