Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult contentwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down19
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minus-squarevodka@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 day agoFrom what I understand it wasn’t actually mastercard and visa? Itch statements made it very clear the issue was PayPal and Stripe. Steam even disabled PayPal payments for a while, a couple days before the purge. While direct card payments with Visa/Mastercard still worked fine.
minus-squareeRac@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·21 hours agoValve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.
minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·12 hours agoSo it’s Valve’s fault for just going with it, seems to me.
minus-squareTotalCourage007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down5·1 day agoStill requires them to find a solution, putting it on patreon won’t work forever. I think most game stores should find a way to adopt cryptocurrency.
From what I understand it wasn’t actually mastercard and visa?
Itch statements made it very clear the issue was PayPal and Stripe.
Steam even disabled PayPal payments for a while, a couple days before the purge. While direct card payments with Visa/Mastercard still worked fine.
Valve also clarified today that it was the processors, not the card management companies, that they talked to. The processors were pointing at MasterCard’s rules, but refusing to provide Valve with someone at MasterCard to talk to.
So it’s Valve’s fault for just going with it, seems to me.
Still requires them to find a solution, putting it on patreon won’t work forever. I think most game stores should find a way to adopt cryptocurrency.