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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: 0.462s | source
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Aeolun ◴[19 Jul 25 02:54 UTC] No.44612148[source]▶
I think it’s hilarious we allow stuff like Postal or Soldier of Fortune without a question, where the whole focus is on going crazy and murdering a whole bunch of people.

But try to show a sensual human body, instead of one that’s ripped into small pieces, and oh my god, this is going too far!

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thallium205 ◴[19 Jul 25 04:15 UTC] No.44612540[source]▶
Adult content is considered a high risk merchant category - meaning it is susceptible to high chargeback and fraud rates. This is because after someone pays for and consumes adult content, a certain level of "clarity" overcomes them resulting in the execution of chargebacks against the merchant.

It has nothing to do with any sort of puritanical premise.

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1. GrantMoyer ◴[19 Jul 25 04:56 UTC] No.44612698[source]▶
I don't think that can explain why they're only targeting certain sub-categories of porn, and it's also contradictory to the public statements by Valve:

> We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks

Individual games violating "rules and standards" doesn't really fit with prohibiting a category because of high rates of fraud.