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

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713 points freedomben | 5 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.679s | source
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throwaway071625 ◴[18 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44607246[source]▶
The article calls out “certain adult games” which is vague. It is interesting to note that most of the delisted games were themed specifically around incest.

https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27

Wondering if this will be a slippery slope towards pulling more anodyne stuff.

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1. UltraSane ◴[19 Jul 25 00:11 UTC] No.44611262[source]▶
Visa and Mastercard generally don't like anything with incest, rape, and/or underage participants.
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2. Diti ◴[19 Jul 25 01:01 UTC] No.44611559[source]▶
But they are strangely okay with murder.
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4. baobabKoodaa ◴[19 Jul 25 07:16 UTC] No.44613286[source]▶
That's american values for you.
5. superkuh ◴[19 Jul 25 13:40 UTC] No.44615394[source]▶
Unless it's a TV show depicting it with live action. Then it's fine.