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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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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The problem with that is that all of these platforms also use the same big payment providers, meaning they're just as likely to be forced to remove these sorts of games.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

True. A number of Patreon folk had to go for SubscribeStar or elsewhere because they decided to ban several types of fetish