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Alles rund um unser aller liebstes Digitalhobby, unabhängig von Plattform und Genre.
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Keep in mind that this started because of a small telecall campaign by said Australian fringe group. There's no reason the finance guys would have upset the status quo on their own. If a few hundred people could annoy them enough to do this, what makes you think thousands of people wouldn't impact them?
As I noted, that guarantees financial death for the impacted game devs. Steam and Itch aren't just a point of sale, they're a discovery service. Wouldn't be surprised to hear 80-90% of sales for these devs come from a couple main platforms.
What? No.
Visa/Mastercard have been doing this shit for literally years. Then some small Australian fringe group knew they had allies in Visa/Mastercard to ban some porn so they emailed Visa/Mastercard.
The warnings were literally years ago. Pretending that Visa/Mastercard are allies or even neutral on this issue is naive.
Visa/Mastercard have been pushing Sony and other video games to be less sexy for several years now.
I don't expect Visa/Mastercard to cave on anything here. They've already made themselves a reputation on the more prudish side of things.