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

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871 points freedomben | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.429s | 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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1. nottorp ◴[19 Jul 25 08:49 UTC] No.44613735[source]▶
> Amazon, Walmart, Target

Those are all US companies so subject to the same puritan pressures. Their cards would still be good for buying ultra violent games but not sex games...

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2. jabroni_salad ◴[19 Jul 25 09:28 UTC] No.44613915[source]▶
Walmart was very supportive of fedNow for the express purpose of removing MasterCard from cashless purchases. And for a long time the only way to pay by phone was to allow them to debit via ACH. out of all of them they get it the most.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012866

And really, even banking isn't a safe harbor. I am pretty sure they were at the forefront of the rise in neobanks and products like green dot cards.