The biggest reason is Steam would likely lose more money from doing that compared with removing the games the card companies are being assholes about.
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Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Couldn’t people just by steam cards with cash, load load it to their accounts and then make their porn purchases? What’s to stop other retailers from selling gift cards that can be purchased with cash to use on the pornographic stuff being sold? (I’m dumb, please educate me.)
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
seralth@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Gift cards only function because of payment processors basically.
If visa and MasterCard decide they won’t support steam means you also can’t buy steam gift cards with your debit card suddenly it requires cash.
Stores will get pressured to no longer stock those giftcard or also lose visa/MasterCard support. This has been threatened before and has caused gift cards to be removed from major grocery stores in the us in the past.
You CANT avoid this even swapping to crypto has the same problem. At some point you HAVE to deal with the payment processors.
Even just getting your crypto back out into cash can quickly become problematic for a business.
We the people have options and ways around it sure, but businesses really don’t.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The issue goes far beyond “porn games on Steam”. These same groups tried to ben other games with no sex at all, but “disturbing” themes (to them). They failed, because, big game, big pushback. But their agenda is not “no porn”, it’s “no anything we dislike”. They’re just starting with the thing they hoped would get little to no pushback for now.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Its really odd, cause you’d think they’d just want to make money no matter where it comes from.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the only thing worth more than money to these kinds of people is making other people suffer.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
They control virtually every transaction everywhere for mostly everyone, aside from local payment solutions. They already make more than enough. As illustrated here; they ask for some bullshit, and everyone involved caves in, no matter what.