They give a shit because they are being pressured into giving a shit by religious nutjobs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_in_Media
Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days agoI don’t even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, and there aren’t many alternatives.
gnutrino@programming.dev 2 days ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That hasn’t ever stopped other companies from pursuing profits at all other costs.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why are they capitulating gthough?
lath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re still thinking within reason. Megalomania doesn’t.
It’s not about money, but power. “The world bent its knee at our word.” Simple as that. People can be and are that crazy.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
People with a lot of money doesn’t really want just money. They want power to impose their views over the rest. Money is just a mean to do so.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The shareholders aren’t the ones pressuring the payment processors.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the payment processors didn’t randomly wake up this week and decide to ban NSFW video games for a power trip.
they are being financially pressured in some way to threaten game platforms that they’ll remove their services completely. the implication of that is they’re worried about losing even more money that they make from payments on game platforms.