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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Berin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/games@lemmy.world

The group responsible is "Collective Shout", the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

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[-] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Oh wow. Itch is also involved even though I would assume they have less than 1% of Steam's gross revenues.

[-] Gibibit@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The amount of money Valve rakes in with Steam is insane. If itch had even 0.1% of that it would be a much bigger website. Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load. I wouldn't be surprised if the number compared to Steam is less than 0.01%. People who want DRM free games generally go to GOG. Hell a lot of DRM free indie/AAA/retro games don't even get listed on itch, so they get only the tiniest portion of the pie.

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[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate’s pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.

On one hand, they help tighten the grip of economic fascism, on the other hand they also piss off Tate... #confusedboner

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How's this confusing? They're a Puritanical group. They do Puritanical things. They want people to live a Puritanical life. Literally nothing deep about it.

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[-] commander@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

This is becoming the norm. Don't think there can be some new payment processor based off traditional finance and banking that can get around this. Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Square, SEPA, FedNow, etc will all rather block transactions to companies that deal in NSFW or whatever is considered dangerous content than try and be some neutral payment rail.

Any in terms of cryptocurrency, any stablecoin will end up subject to the same problems where the issued stablecoin is backed by a governments currency or bonds or even like corporate bonds which are regulated by countries and those are all clear ways to regulate what is appropriate for spending money on. Stablecoins have freeze and clawback mechanisms, at least the ones that are legally compliant. Really to me the only solution is for non-stablecoin/gold/etc backed cryptocurrencies to become popular for payments

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[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

RIP Itch.io

Choosing short term profits over long term userbase, it's all downhill from here.

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[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Woke liberals ruining America, nothing new

[-] Berin@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Collective Shout is run by christian fundamentalists

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

My attempt to crack a shitty joke has backfired more than expected lol

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