UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it’s a matter for the free market, baby

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/uk-govt-fobs-off-a-10-000-strong-request-to-stop-payment-processors-nuking-nsfw-steam-games-says-its-a-matter-for-the-free-market-baby/

by ControlCAD

26 comments

  1. Gooners of the World unite!

    You have nothing to lose but your futa hentai dating sim!

  3. Well, I’m not affected but I’m still very much against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal deciding what we can buy. If the free market worked, this would be a perfect opportunity for someone else to sweep in and kick them in the groin.

  4. “Well, I don’t know about you, but it’s certainly the first time the British state has ever let me down.”

    What about Stop Killing Games?

    Hell, I struggle to think of a time when the British state hasn’t dropped the ball this past decade. Not that they are lone in that but… not being alone in the shit doesn’t change the fact that you are in shit.

  5. Valve launches own cryptocurrency just so gooners can exchange fiat currency for fiat fiat currency to spend on my femboy roommate.

  6. So Visa and Mastercard deciding what is allowed in games is free market, but god forbid you want to have 2 full fat cokes at Nandos, that’s straight to jail blud

  7. UK is literally, no joke, a dystopia and has been for a long time. There’s no legitimate free speech there when shit like this happens. What do you mean “free market”? How is payment processors censoring the actual free market a “free market matter”?

  8. There can’t be a free market if here is a monopoly

  9. Today it is NSFW. Tomorrow it will be political opponents, dissidents, and all the Nazi playbook. This is an open Pandora box.

  10. General question, how do system ls like PayPal, Vida and MasterCard work? Can anyone make one?

  11. So what will happen to games like GTA or Red dead? They’re not exactly sfw lol

  13. The UK should go after Collective Shout instead.

  14. Can you just credit your Steam wallet and then buy these games?

  15. The UK government always, without fail and without exception, ignores these petitions. They’re a waste of time designed to pacify the public and make slacktivists feel good about themselves.

  16. Just keep in mind, uk doesn’t believe in free anything, they are just too afraid to bite the hand that feeds them

  17. As far as I understand, the issue with these kinds of payments lies in the much higher number of frauds, chargebacks, and disputes, which makes them less profitable or even unprofitable with regular commissions. 

    It would require other people to pay more for such customers to equalize payments. 

    Payment providers that support high-risk areas like this, along with gambling, etc., usually have much higher commissions.

  18. Can we create a new payment processor in this free market?

  20. … Yeah and Arsenic-based pigments, Lead paint, Asbestos, Radium products, Chalk in milk, Sawdust in bread, Child labor, CFCs, and Snake oil, were all matters for the free market too.

  21. Genuinely don’t care, I wonder if the person at Mastercard was also sick of seeing lazy perverted trash mascarade as games on their storefront. I’m actually kinda baffled that people aren’t just happy about this?

    Its a step towards qualify control. Maybe they can hit the pointless $5 asset flip shit next, you know, the ones with names liken”Granf Theft Vehicle” and “Call of Responsibility””Red Fred Cowboy Simulator”

  24. Im just a random passerby so ill make this quick to not disturb ya’ll:

    #MEEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC!!!

  25. 10000 is nothing. The online safety act got 3 million and the government ignored that too

  26. I’m against censorship but I’m really happy all that degeneracy will go from my steam homepage.

    As much as I turn it off and try to hide it it’s always somewhere.

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