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

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788 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.344s | 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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tptacek ◴[19 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44612493[source]▶
You could just ask, "why do payment processors pressure content vendors not to offer this kind of content". You're starting from the premise that there's some weird puritan thing happening, but there's really nothing puritan about American business culture. There are other explanations!

You can get a long ways just by assuming that the people involved in these transactions are utterly amoral.

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dilyevsky ◴[19 Jul 25 04:12 UTC] No.44612528[source]▶
If by “people involved” you mean folks who consume this kind of content then id totally agree. As soon as you offer crypto or even mildly sexual content your cc abuse rate goes through the roof. Which i suspect is the sole reason for processors getting upset in this case
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Ayesh ◴[19 Jul 25 04:25 UTC] No.44612581[source]▶
Is that not a similar or higher percentage for games with loot boxes or other sorts of gambling?
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1. dilyevsky ◴[19 Jul 25 06:43 UTC] No.44613146[source]▶
I bet it has higher chargeback percentage too and they probably pay higher fees. iirc if merchant is getting close to 2% fraud to sales ratio, they can get banned for life. It's probably different rules when you're the size of Valve though...