They just caved to the payment processors fully and are now heavily censoring games in general.

The only "games" seemingly recently affected are incest "games", and Valve tends to also remove pedophilic "games" from their store and tend to deny such to be sold on their store when it seems obvious, so it's hardly "in general".

also, there's already a super thread on this very page about the subject;
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/0/601910081412430040/

It doesn't matter what games got affected. Payment operations job is not be judge about games content. Them practices are completely out of place and Steam bowing to them is unacceptable.

Your account owns 7 games and your name is an ad. Steam will crumble without you.

Originally posted by Pozhinateli:

It doesn't matter what games got affected. Payment operations job is not be judge about games content. Them practices are completely out of place and Steam bowing to them is unacceptable.

I tend to agree, however, Steam bowing to them on the likely basis that the games in question are most likely illegal (or soon to be) and very extreme in nature (rape/incest), seems reasonable. I do not agree with the wording of this new rule, as it leaves the door open for payment processors (who I do not believe should have any say, regardless) to make further demands.

It's more likely that Valve weighed the potential loss of income of losing two major payment processors vs the backlash of removing/banning games of the aforementioned nature, then determined the latter was more acceptable.

Who knows what will happen, time will tell.

Originally posted by vintologi.com:

It's not like paypal or credit cards is a good options for payments to begin with. Those are "last resort" options when you cannot use a good service (like Swish in sweden).

I use PayPal in Germany. It wouldn't be necessary on Steam -- I'm sure they can protect their card data -- so it's mostly because I always use PayPal for online payments: PayPal Germany can directly access my account so they aren't affected by cards expiring and stuff, and I don't have to leave card data with small shops that keep loosing their data.

Name one service that sells games and doesn't rely on credit cards.

Originally posted by datCookie:

Originally posted by Pozhinateli:

It doesn't matter what games got affected. Payment operations job is not be judge about games content. Them practices are completely out of place and Steam bowing to them is unacceptable.

I tend to agree, however, Steam bowing to them on the likely basis that the games in question are most likely illegal (or soon to be) and very extreme in nature (rape/incest), seems reasonable. I do not agree with the wording of this new rule, as it leaves the door open for payment processors (who I do not believe should have any say, regardless) to make further demands.

It's more likely that Valve weighed the potential loss of income of losing two major payment processors vs the backlash of removing/banning games of the aforementioned nature, then determined the latter was more acceptable.

Who knows what will happen, time will tell.

Ding ding ding!

distributing illegal material is illegal. And payment providers knowingly processing payment for it is also illegal.

why are there still plenty of adult games if they were all banned and censored by evil corporations?

Why can you still use credit cards to consume porn? Why have porn sites stopped giving results for specific search terms that describe illegal content?

Almost like it's about legal liability or something. Nah, nonsense, it's evil christofacist puritan feminists censoring gamers!!

I swear people have zero brain cells nowadays. Social media brain rot is real.

Originally posted by lolschrauber:

Why can you still use credit cards to consume porn?

Yeah, it is kinda sus how they seem to be okay with all the incest content on porn sites...