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Why would these companies set these standards? Its not like the average consumer cares about whether their payment processor lets them pay for both cod and nekopara.
My understanding is that there's been legislation over the past couple years under the guise of being anti-human trafficking which targets payment processors for anything related to sex work. The processor companies have attempted to just get as many people to switch to PG content proactively instead of having to change their internal systems to comply with new standards. IIRC this happened a couple years ago to Patreon
I've been trying to figure this out also. These are some of the largest, greediest corporations that exist.
I'm not going to hold the developer of whatever godforsaken game is listed responsible until MasterCard is brought to justice for letting me use my bank/money to buy it!
For real though this is obscenely necessary for steam. All sorts of Hitler dating sims and other morally repugnant shit
They're not even gonna go after the stuff that's actually repugnant.
A handful of slop asset flips with taboo subject matter will get smacked. (Most of the banned titles are incest themed.)
Then this will quietly just become a background part of the behind the scenes process used to go after LGBTQ+ content just like it has every single time.
they absolutely do not give a fuck about these. they're going to use this as baby steps towards forcing steam to purge queer content.