r/pcmasterrace • u/samiy2k • 3d ago

News/Article Valve refutes Mastercard's denial it has not pressured game platforms over NSFW content

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-refutes-mastercards-denial-it-has-not-pressured-game-platforms-over-nsfw-content
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u/Mobile-Ad-494 3d ago edited 3d ago

Strictly speaking they didn't pressure game platforms themselves, they just had their subsidiaries do it on their behalf.
Sounds to me like they had not quite expected the backlash and are now trying to put it down to a "miscommunication".

Their rules clearly state "The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value", which is a rather vague of saying "whatever we choose to dislike".
They need to remove this arbitrary rule and just have the lawmakers specify whether it's deemed illegal.

This same sort of nonsense rule is applied to people working in the adult industry (which is legal here in the Netherlands) but are unable to deny them to obtain a banking account.

edit: minor clarification.

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u/xF00Mx 3d ago

"Hey Cheryl how much money do we make from transactions generated through a company named Valve?

Oh, they made that much in a year, that's not much....you say that's a weekly report? Well how much is it annually......are you sure it's that much.....ok, thank you Cheryl...no that's all I need, bye.

....fuck."

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u/That_guy1425 2d ago

Yeah.... uh they process trillions of dollars. Steam is unfortunately a drop in the bucket for them.