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

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728 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | 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. Razengan ◴[19 Jul 25 00:49 UTC] No.44611506[source]▶
Honestly, with how prevalent iPhones and Androids are today, specially among newer humans, if Apple and Google made a payment system that just transferred money between iPhone/Android, it could practically replace cash & cards for a lot of people.

In some countries the vast majority of payments are done via phone apps for national payment systems already, bypassing Visa/Mastercard etc. entirely. Even kids pay for candy by phone.