The EU will sooner ban all adult games from Steam. Seriously, check out any porn game on steamdb.info and look for “restricted_countries” in the Metadata section. Notice a certain large EU country there?
amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 week ago
I really hope the EU will step in to stop this, it’s a despicable practice, and it makes me sad that Valve doesn’t stand their ground. They’re big enough that they should be able to exert pressure on Visa and MC, who seemingly push this forward the most.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 week ago
They can’t do anything about two foreign private parties doing their own thing. But I do hope they ditch visa and mastercard
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 week ago
I think you're seriously underestimating how big VISA and Mastercard are. Valve is estimated to be worth around 8 billion , Visa made 4.5 billion in profits Q2 of 2025. VISA makes more money annually than Valve is even worth. Furthermore If we exclude China Visa and MC make up 90% of all online payments. Steam's entire business depends on online purchases. Steam would be thoroughly fucked if Visa and MC dropped Valve.
What Visa and MC are doing is despicable and something should be done about them, but Valve is not in a position to do anything but bend over and spread the cheeks.