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But if it really bugs you... you should go into your library and find every game you have played for less than 2 hours and request a refund due to "lack of faith in the future of the platform due to recent guideline changes".
Valve is a service that has terms both users and developers must abide by. Payment processors are a service that vendors must abide by.
Valve can allow whatever they want on their store. And payment processors can shut down their vendor account if they have issues with problematic content content transactions on their network.
Maybe it's a pain and annoying, but not much Valve can do about it. Both Valve and payment processors have rights to make decisions about their own services. Valve is going to decide problematic content is not more valuable than continued access to major payment providers.
And people are going to be pissed and anthropomorphize Valve as being a victim and needing to "fight". But there's no fight where Valve ends up forcing Visa or MC to accept transactions and business they don't want. And there's no reality where credit card users are going to stick with Valve the second they can no longer accept payments. Most will just hmgo to the next store and scoff at the foolishness of getting banned by major credit cards companies.
Already an on-going topic. Best of luck, blocked, etc.
What bizarre rules they have there.
WHich means most foplks won't be able to buy anything, nor will dev/pubs earn anything.
Putting your foot down is one thing but it's not very helpful to step on your own toes.
Everything related to financial sector sucks nowadays... Payment processors, banks, fintechs (like wise, revolut, zen and so on), steam and steam support was bad even before... The government simply doesn't care
Well Valve can do something about it: just add cryptocurrency transactions as a payment method :). This is the only one ultimate solutions of 2025.
What will hit more customers, do you think? Blocking Visa/MC or removing those games? Think about it.
Personally I can't fault Valve for being a business and making a business decision. Visa/MC on the other hand...
Yeah, payment processors shouldn't dictate what someone can sell or not, unless it is not against law, for example selling drugs and so on. Porn games or any other are not illegal in any country as far as I know at least... This is ridiculous
Why should Valve be the activist for others? Have people considered that Valve simply might think it's in their own best interest to take this step?