Americans are being puritanical, and US payment companies are making steam and other game platforms remove nsfw content or they’ll block their payment services from them or something.
And somehow they decided it’s better to make this an issue for everyone, not just the people who use those payment services
Totally. I’m arguing that the only people with puritanical reasons are the Australian karen group.
VISA etc are acting for purely financial reasons. Like they literally have matrixes for this kind of thing. Corporations don’t give 2 shits about fuck if it doesn’t make them money.
End of the day they calculated that the market cap for hentai games is smaller than the potential lost revenue generated from the negative publicity.
Funny that they are trying to empower women so much but aren’t going after any of the social media of fundie women telling young girls their only purpose in life is to breed and serve their husband
An action group of Karens who in the past have succeed in getting other games (one of them an rpg rape simulator) taken off of game stores.
This recent story they convinced payment processors to pressure steam into removing most of their adult games as well as some other site that I guess has even more adult games.
IMO if a platform decides they don’t want to host adult content, that is their prerogative. The people conflating this to “art destruction” or “censorship” are just another flavour of people who misunderstand what free speech is and isn’t.
Free market baby. If VISA decides it will lose money processing payments for hentai games it’s their prerogative to not process them.
I’d wager you have crypto wallet if you the kind of person who cares about hentai games. Go support the developer directly if it matters so much.
Hentai games are not going to make the 98% of people who don’t play them care about Payment Oligopolies, which is the closet thing to moral cause here.
Nothing wrong with hentai but getting worked up over it is a red flag.
Free market baby. If VISA decides it will lose money processing payments for hentai games it’s their prerogative to not process them.
You’re so right, and I’m obviously happy when things like this happen. Thank you, VISA. Thank you, Mastercard. Thank you, Capital One. Thank you, American Express. Praise be to God, guns, and government. Amen.
I’m out of the loop I guess. What’s happening?
Americans are being puritanical, and US payment companies are making steam and other game platforms remove nsfw content or they’ll block their payment services from them or something.
And somehow they decided it’s better to make this an issue for everyone, not just the people who use those payment services
It’s Australia not America that’s doing this.
Pretty sure Collective Shout is Austrailian.
I think they also got Left 4 Dead 2’s poster edited to remove the V fingers (cuz it’s 2 in america and the finger in Aussie??)
They also got an rpg rape simulator delisted, though that probs would have happened on it’s own.
You can look at the list :3 this is from itch talking about collective shout. A lot of them are US based, the last one is japanese
The entire movement and group that’s pushing this is the Australian branches of these companies and Australian groups partitioning the companies.
So this is entirely Australias fault.
International companies are international.
Totally. I’m arguing that the only people with puritanical reasons are the Australian karen group.
VISA etc are acting for purely financial reasons. Like they literally have matrixes for this kind of thing. Corporations don’t give 2 shits about fuck if it doesn’t make them money.
End of the day they calculated that the market cap for hentai games is smaller than the potential lost revenue generated from the negative publicity.
Fair enough :3
Similar point tho. Enough puritans can’t handle consenting adults looking at a drawn penis to make the payment processors pull this little stunt
Funny they don’t name their own Australian conservative anti abortion Christian founder though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist
Funny that they are trying to empower women so much but aren’t going after any of the social media of fundie women telling young girls their only purpose in life is to breed and serve their husband
An action group of Karens who in the past have succeed in getting other games (one of them an rpg rape simulator) taken off of game stores.
This recent story they convinced payment processors to pressure steam into removing most of their adult games as well as some other site that I guess has even more adult games.
IMO if a platform decides they don’t want to host adult content, that is their prerogative. The people conflating this to “art destruction” or “censorship” are just another flavour of people who misunderstand what free speech is and isn’t.
“Remove the games or we’ll remove your ability to accept payments from 98% of your customers”
DUDES IT’S TOTALLY UP TO THE GAME PLATFORM
Free market baby. If VISA decides it will lose money processing payments for hentai games it’s their prerogative to not process them.
I’d wager you have crypto wallet if you the kind of person who cares about hentai games. Go support the developer directly if it matters so much.
Hentai games are not going to make the 98% of people who don’t play them care about Payment Oligopolies, which is the closet thing to moral cause here.
Nothing wrong with hentai but getting worked up over it is a red flag.
Why is it a red flag if there’s nothing wrong with it?
I think you mean “Monopoly baby!”, or are Visa/Mastercard not using their dominant market position to dictate what can and cannot be purchased?
No oligopoly is when several companies control the market. Monopoly is when a single company controls the market.
Shouldn’t have jerked off all zoom class bud.
if you’re going to be all “uhm, aktchually” you might want to make sure you get the terms right:
when it’s 2 companies, it’s called a duopoly.
You’re so right, and I’m obviously happy when things like this happen. Thank you, VISA. Thank you, Mastercard. Thank you, Capital One. Thank you, American Express. Praise be to God, guns, and government. Amen.
It’s called “extortion.” The X makes it sound sexy.
Sounds like they need to get laid.