I've worked in e-commerce since 2007 and I've seen every type of website/app selling all sorts of products and services. The issue the card companies have with content like this is that they have an incredibly high rate of charge backs. It's the same with gambling sites as well. Usually spouse one will discover the purchase, spouse two will claim they have no idea where the purchases came from, spouse two will say the card/account must have been compromised, then they call the card company to reverse the charges. I don't agree with the process but it is the main reason I've seen merchant accounts rejected when my clients were applying for one.

I find it amusing that the ultra wealthy believe pornographic images would replace an entire human relationship. Really shows how deeply warped they are, projecting they're own callous insanity onto the masses. What a small, sad existence.

Because they make 2-5% on the transaction so they'd be making money on literal incest games. If Steam wanted to defend the incest games, they could make an alternative payment pathway that excluded the card system, but they probably also want the incest games gone.

Because the owners are Christian and think everyone else should be as well.

I think they fear regulation so much that they're willing to be this proactive to keep Congress off their asses.

It's still weird to me that they never seem willing to test the boundaries, though. They've got more lawyers and lobbyists than they know what to do with.

Yeah, as if morals are high on their list of priorities…

that's what crypto was invented for.

and it kind of sucks.

haven't found a tutorial on it yet

They can't not accept credit cards, so they will have to deal with them one way or the other. If only the US had a decent payment system instead of credit cards...

Here me out now:

ProtonPay

/s

edit: looked it up that name is taken by a crypto company. I meant valve making one to be clear.

Virtually every payment processor uses VISA/MasterCard in the back-end. For EU users PayPal can be backed by SEPA mandates instead (direct bank pre-authorization), but otherwise VISA/MC is holding payment processors by the balls in virtually every other market. Without Visa/MC, there is no way to bring funds in or out of your account.

The only alternative is to negotiate interconnection with banks directly, but that's a very high bar for broad adoption. It has happened on a small scale (e.g. Payconiq in the Benelux) and the EU is attempting to broaden that to the rest of the continent, but it's a very tough sell because they have to convince every major bank to support the new standard.

This is a textbook case where capitalism isn't the solution because there are only two market actors and a virtually insurmountable barrier to entry.

Yeah, but we need something like Lustercard, Rizza and Pornpal here, since the problem isn't on content company level.

From what I read on other posts (which is to say, I haven't confirmed it so take it with a grain of salt), it was nonconsensual and incest games