• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Here’s what i think is likely. For one reason or another, they get excessive refund/chargeback requests regarding these types of titles and decided to act as they don’t think it’s profitable.

    I don’t think they care what so ever what you buy, as long as it’s profitable for them.

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      2 days ago

      I wish that was the case. It’s mostly just extreme right lobbying groups like Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same groups that control the far right, exert colonial control over impoverished African countries, and generally make the world a worse place for everyone. The same groups that manufactured cases to screw up Dobbs, Wedding cake lawsuits, and death penalty laws for LGBTQ citizens of Uganda.

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      1 day ago

      None of that is relevant to the other comment’s point that these companies should not have that level of authority to dictate what we can or cannot purchase. If it is legal to purchase, then payment processors should not be allowed to deny the purchase. Period.

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        1 day ago

        I’m not even sure those titles are legal everywhere.

        Allowing digital purchase of illegal products can very well be criminal for the payment processor in certain regions.

        I mean just look at those titles. “Incest daughter - BDSM”.

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          1 day ago

          Which is why the retailer, Steam, already restricts certain regions from buying titles if they are deemed illegal in that region.

          Again, it is not the authority of the payment processors to dictate what people can and cannot purchase. Period. No excuses or justifications will be accepted.

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            1 day ago

            You are still refusing to acknowledge that regional legislation can easily prohibit purchases from sources that facilitate illegal products.

            I have never heard of a case where payment processors refuse to authorize payment of a legal product because they don’t like the product.

            Do you comprehend how big of a problem it is if a payment processor can’t authorize payments to steam? That’s not something they do for the fun of it. It’s because there are legal hurdles. Everyday they can’t authorize payments is lost revenue, and risk of losing customers.

            I’m sorry, but you will just have to source your incest porn games from somewhere else.