Steam wallet funds are still often added via credit cards. If these changes bother you, try contacting your government representative to put pressure on the companies.

For example I heard Japan is suing Visa for unfair banking practices

This has been suggested so many times that I lost count. That wouldn't solve anything as Visa/Mastercard refuse to do business with Valve if those games remained on the store at all.

Maybe use the search feature on the forums. It's there for a reason.

Originally posted by Seretti:

This has been suggested so many times that I lost count. That wouldn't solve anything as Visa/Mastercard refuse to do business with Valve if those games remained on the store at all.

Maybe use the search feature on the forums. It's there for a reason.

Yeah but other smaller launches have protested and nothing happened. Since they only bluff

Originally posted by Mambius:

So those whiny loosers of payment processors can shut up about it. It will work. Also GoG refused to take em down and nothing happened.

Not how it works. The payment processors don't care what you BUY with their payment options. They care that the store is SELLING those titles.

Fanza tried this approach in 2019ish when PayPal first started whining about adult content being sold to adults. Fanza responded by making it so PayPal couldn't be used for those titles. PayPal still whined. So Fanza were forced to drop PayPal as a payment option entirely. When Mastercard went after them a year or so later, they didn't even bother trying to find a compromise -- they just told Mastercard where to stick it and dropped them as a payment method, too.

As for GOG, they don't sell any of the games the payment processors were objecting about. They're just jumping in for PR like they always do. So far, the payment processors haven't even noticed GOG exist as far as this issue goes.

Nope, you can't dodge liability like that.

Steam wallet funds will be used to buy those games and the wallets will be charged from those payment services. There's a direct and clear causal link, which creates exactly the same issue.

Sorry but it don't work like that - it will NOT work.

Originally posted by Mambius:

Perhaps it was already suggested.
Couldnt steam just make a section of the store where those "bad" games are only purchasable with steam wallet? Kinda like with the trading cards.
So those whiny loosers of payment processors can shut up about it. It will work. Also GoG refused to take em down and nothing happened.

You've unironically provided a solution yourself, purchase them on gog if they are not available on steam, this is what has been done for any game that is available on one platform but is on another.