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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: 0.412s | 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. AdieuToLogic ◴[19 Jul 25 01:11 UTC] No.44611620[source]▶
>> I am genuinely curious who can actually threaten Visa (I do not think it is Valve).

> Likely Apple currently has the deepest finance industry roots.

Apple used a very large bank headquartered in the US for its credit card processing as of about ten years ago. Given that the cost of change is significant once these processes are put in place, it is likely this remains the case.

Note that this is not the same as what Apple Pay supports.