Our prevailing system of electronic payments is an absolutely ridiculous situation that gives Visa and Mastercard more power than anyone should have over the whole world of retail commerce. It’s been like this since fucking 1993, or whenever it became commonplace to buy stuff using credit cards on the Internet. It’s nice that gamers have now noticed that it affects them but it remains unclear how their efforts are going to help improve things other than by making more people aware of the problem.
It is quite clear to me. Here is an EU initiative which is looking for input from EU citizens on digital fairness and a lot of people have already mentioned this. If you are an EU citizen I highly recommend you do the same.
Now for Canada or the US, I assume it would be piggybacking onto a similar campaign that aims to introduce legislation through lobbying with representatives. However I do not feel qualified to speak on the process given the complexity and the amount of different jurisdictions possibly at play.
