Boycott Steam.

They were not even willing to fight back with the power of 5% of their annual revenue.

  • @[email protected]
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    1713 days ago

    You do understand that without payment processors they lose all revenue streams altogether, right? Like, none of us can buy games anymore.

    The oligopoly in that industry is insane.

          • @[email protected]
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            413 days ago

            That’s not a false equivalence, is the people that control how your money is spent say no more games then you get no more games.

            • Rikudou_Sage
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              313 days ago

              That is very extremely false equivalence. First, equating right to abortion with right to buy nsfw games is ridiculous. If I only could choose one, it would definitely be right to abortion and I would hope most people would vote the same.

              Second, I’m simply saying if a store doesn’t offer what you want, why not support the one that does?

              • @[email protected]
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                312 days ago

                Because it isn’t the store not offering what you want, it’s the payment processors not letting stores sell this, that’ll affect every single store on earth as they become more aware of it

      • @[email protected]
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        312 days ago

        For now. If the payment providers truly want this then it’s only a matter of time. GOG can’t function without them either

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      Steam gift cards with codes have been working great for me so far to recharge my wallet. They can switch to those

        • @[email protected]
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          211 days ago

          Yeah. You can get them at supermarkets and sometimes gas stations where I live in germany

          • @[email protected]
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            311 days ago

            Yes, I am aware they exist. I am asking if you expect Steam’s entire business model to hinge on cards you have to buy at gas stations and grocery stores.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 days ago

              I would say it gives them enough security to test if the payment providers would actually pull through with their threat. Which as far as I know they didn’t try.

  • Ulrich
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    2913 days ago

    Blaming the wrong people. Blame Collective Shout and Stripe

    • @[email protected]
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      513 days ago

      Wrong people, again. Although harassing conservative puritans is always a plus in my book. The real issue is visa and MasterCard, which steam could absolutely fuck over btw.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 days ago

        No porn game is CSAM. The entire point of that acronym is that it stands for “photographic evidence of child rape.”

        • @[email protected]
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          211 days ago

          I thought CSAM meant literally “Child sexual abuse material” and that it is a better word than childporn because calling it that makes it sound like its some genre of porn which is too harmless of a description for it. That applies to drawn as well as real depictions. Both are material showing child sexual abuse.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 days ago

            The term specifically exists to describe material from the abuse of children.

            You cannot abuse children who do not exist.

            The entire point is distinguishing the kind of JPGs you go to prison for, versus a drawing of Bart Simpson’s dick. There’s a reason that only one of those things is readily available on popular websites. The other one’s a lot worse. Separating them is kind of important.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        I think you are behind on your arguments, these days its “the girls aren’t real so there is no abuse”.

        Sorta sounds like “I want to express my desires to fuck children” if you turn your head a certain way.