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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

Newly added rule is:

Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

Diff of the new terms https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamworksDocumentation/commit/fddd59b5395cc3c1c74574650dbf5784612d0521

:/ payment processors strike again (slippery slope etc)

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 18 points 3 days ago

I don't know how much truth there is to it, but one compelling reason I've heard is that adult content has a considerably higher chargeback rate than other content, making the risk much higher for payment processors. This makes sense - I could absolutely see some horny person buying some adult content, getting off to it, then doing a chargeback in their moment of introspection.

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

But that's only using like 2 minutes of the 2 hour return window

[-] RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Wouldn’t the cost land at valve? I guess not with a chargeback, but no way someone creates and account everytime they buy a porn game.

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